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Thanks Ben. Yes we've travelled extensively around the world and it is weight that kills many cars. We usually weigh everything onto the truck (to the ounce), including ourselves, before we go off. I've got a Westpac bank account set up ready to go, a friendly address, etc. The rego forms are...

The VIC rego was bought by the previous owner as we thought it would be best to keep the vehicle registered while it was in limbo between states. I paid the owner to do that just before he transferred the papers to my name and a QLD address. We agreed that if he gets the refund then he will...

Thanks Ed - the UK rules seem so much easier, but as with everything it is about getting to know your new environment. Cant wait to get out there and on the road (actually track :-) )

I've put this here as I think it has the best chance of being seen by the guys in Australia.... Background: my 79 series was a Victoria registered car and I bought it in Dec 2017 with 11 months 3 weeks of rego paid for, test certificate on sale etc. I now want to register the vehicle with QLD...

Pencilled in - would like to get to the April one if we can.....bit close to Easter so not sure what we will be doing then.

Currently we are going Winton, Boulia, Birdsville, Marree, William Creek, Oodnadatta, Marla then north to Uluru etc.....there are sooooo many things we could do.....just need to fit them all together :-)

Thanks - sounds like a plan. I may pick your brains in the meantime if that's ok?

That would be great...

Yep - no problem. Feel free to PM me or add your questions here or on the appropriate travel thread

Correct - there was a whole load of hype around this trail but in all honesty if you are a confident driver and have a good truck then it is straightforward. I think it is a Grade 4 rated trail but only for a couple of short sections - some narrow steps with adverse camber and polished, and the...

The fishermans cottages were photographed at Arniston on the south coast of South Africa, not far from Cape Aghulas. We live in the south west UK and it we found it quite interesting how much use of thatch there was in Africa too.

Here is our high level route

We've got about 9 months in the plan at the moment....

Just saying Hi to this group. Some of you may know that I have been driving my 100 "Hedgehog 2.0" around various bits of the world but for our next leg in Australia I have just purchased this VDJ79 there. Already prepped for the outback it will eventually be getting a Trayon (www.trayon.com)...

Hi Byron - glad it all worked out for you. We are back home in Blighty now - you can see some pictures of our Africa trip on Trip Reports section under Hedgehog

The mechanical set-up I'm pretty happy with. Replaced both the Tough Dog shocks with same after 70,000 hard miles @ full GVM. Most of the stuff we had go wrong/wore out was after-market items e.g. Swing out wheel carrier bearing worn from corrugations; under-belly plates lost a couple of bolts...

That's it.......

nearly there.....

and some more.....

OK so some more photos from the second half of the journey