Longreach Road Trip

[c107]

I've been on my annual road trip in classic cars, going to Longreach, QLD and back.

Planning the Trip:

Planning a 4,800km road trip to outback Queensland

The last three of our big classic car road trips have headed south towards Victoria. This year it was time for something different. We are heading north

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Preparing the car:

Preparing my 560SEL for a 4,800km road trip

I will be taking my 560SEL on a 4,800km road trip to outback Queensland soon. Over the past couple of months I have been slowly sorting out a few things that

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Day 0

Longreach Trip - Day 0 - Sydney to Maitland

Our trip to Longreach in classic cars starts tomorrow morning. One of the things we learned in the first of these trips is that it is a bad idea to try and st

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Day 1

Longreach Trip - Day 1 - NSW Mid North Coast

The first full day of our 8 day road trip to Longreach and back started in Maitland. Due to a major landslide on Thunderbolts way, we had a lot more distance

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Day 2

Longreach Trip - Day 2 - Gwydir Hwy and New England NSW

The second day of our classic car road trip to Longreach and back started in Grafton. As we were able to stick with the planned route, we slept in and met a

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Day 3

Longreach Trip - Day 3 - South East Queensland

Our arrival into the sunshine state brought with it heavy rain overnight. By the morning, the rain had stopped, but a thick fog was over the region. Vis

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Day 4

Longreach Trip - Day 4 - Central Queensland

After travelling mostly northwards for the last few days, today would be heading west. We started out In Monto at 6:30AM. Due to the clear skies it was

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[BenzBoy]

Brilliant!

 

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Day 5:

Longreach Trip - Day 5 - Longreach

The fifth day of our trip would be the day we finally arrive in Longreach. This trip has been much more about the journey than any one destination, but Long

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Day 6:

Longreach Trip - Day 6 - Southwest Queensland

Day six was a shorter drive than usual. This was largely because we are travelling through Southwest Queensland, a very sparsely populated part of the count

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[Michel]

Fascinating report

 

[c107]

Longreach Trip – Qantas Founders Museum

A tour of the Qantas founders museum in Longreach. I visited as part of a classic car road trip I did to Longreach.

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Longreach Trip - Day 7 - Inland Northern NSW and Warrumbungle NP

The penultimate day of our trip had us starting in Queensland not far from the NSW border. Yesterday we had finished up in St George. The morning was ye

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