Our trip to Hervey Bay

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Our trip to Hervey Bay

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This is our trip to Hervey Bay with 4 of our friends and co drivers

Glenn, Myself and fellow NSW club member Cary Peters.
Glenn's a EH kinda guy.

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We were meet at Heatherbrae by Scott and Allison (Stationsedanman) in their EK Wagon.

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About now Cary points out Milkshake has no 1st or Reverse.

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Fortunately Scott knows a guy that can help replace the missing nut on the gear linkage. Turns out to be Graham (extremeblasting) on the forum who also has Reddos old panel van.
Thanks for the help you guys!.

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We are on the move and heading to Taree

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Weather was nice on the trip.

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But for the traffic

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Dinner at the Grafton Services Club..$10 with a beer..Fantastic

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Ready to leave Grafton on the Friday morning

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How's that for a well built Grey, Just outside Grafton heading to Ballina.

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All the way from Ormeau we strike this, Holiday traffic

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Breakfast at Maccas Hervey Bay

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Sign on and Show and Shine

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That's Clintons Red and White FB from the forum

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That's Rosco's Blue EK with the Dragways.

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My mate Glenn and Belinda Allllardyce at the motel

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Craig and Cary at the motel.

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Two of the models Tony Dahl built for the raffles..Amazing!

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This must be on the sunday as that is the entertainer from the night before

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And Brian Westlake is enjoying some Fairy Floss!..

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Meanwhile while the boys are at the sign on?

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We took these walky talky thing with us, invaluable.

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Proudly Blueberry nailed third behind the Crupies in EK Sports.

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Sharing the glory with Russell Cooper (rustydungers) who put Blueberry together and painted her..

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Heading home on the Monday. Boys in Blueberry and the Girls in Milkshake.
The Girls have bolted!

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Road Food the lunch of champions

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We arrived back at 8.30pm on the Tuesday night, our Itinerary wasen't to far off but we did loose 1 1/2 hour going up because of the traffic but much better run home.

I kept details of the fuel cost and consumpion.

Milkshake to Hervey Bay
1, 263 klms used 137.731 litres at a cost of $216.42
Return trip
1, 263 klms used 133.571 litres at a cost of $212.56

Blueberry to Hervey Bay
1, 263 klms used 166.261 litres at a cost of $237.74
Return trip
1, 263 klms used 154, 951 litres at a cost of $236.03

Both cars had 3 people and roughly same luggage spread in each.
Big difference in the two and minor difference in return consumption as well in each.

And thanks to Craig (Wot179) I now know the comsumpoinj of each car..

26.3mpg for milkshake

22.2mpg for blueberry

Cheers... :thumbsup:
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nice work thanks wayne
sometimes yor just better off shitting in yor hands and clapping

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Does the milage reflect the fact that blueberry is running a triple carb or not...... or is it that EK's are more expensive to run. lol [WINKING FACE]
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Good stuff, Wayne :thumbsup:

Surprised at the fuel difference between the two, I thought the EK was only running a single carby
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Thanks for the pics and commentary Wayne. looks like you had a great time.
Speed and Style........... One day I'll get the speed bit.
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Great photos Wayne, thanks. Did the rusty, crusty ute make it there under its own steam? Look s like a corker!!

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Andrew and Peter, I can only put it down to the EK not having as much mileage as the FB... :problem:
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Devilrod wrote:Thanks for the pics and commentary Wayne. looks like you had a great time.
We had a ball, wish I could have got more pics but the camera has givin out by the look of it.. :?
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In the Shed wrote:Great photos Wayne, thanks. Did the rusty, crusty ute make it there under its own steam? Look s like a corker!!

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Stephen
Came on a trailer Stephen, I liked it as well.. :wink:
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Cool Story, Cool pics & Great job on the award :thumbsup:

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Thanks for posting Wayne ..
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:thumbsup: Thanks Wayne
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Great post, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks very much Wayne. Great to see some photos.
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Thanks Wayne,
great to finally put a face to your forum identity.

Great great cars, congrats on the award.

Thanks for posting the pix... I hardly took any this year - but took a few of that great ute and the light green panel van... I'm in love again - love these dear old things with a visual "life"...

Some of your shots deserve professional status... darned hard to get good pix in bright sunlight, well done. Hope the camera makes a full recovery.

Your fuel figures are pretty much what I'd expect from a grey running highway speed.
Yes, a new and still "tight" engine will get better once it finds it's happy state... thought they might have been a bit closer though.
I note that different drivers were used in both directions.... and the differences pretty much were common between cars.

If it's of any interest, our old bus with a HP block bored to 192 red, 4 speed aussie and 3:08 diff averaged 29.74 mpg (accurate) Melbourne to Hervey Bay inland at around the 95 km/h mark... did a little bit of 110 km/h running to Narrandera, but mainly the mid 90's from there on.
Don't have the return figures, we're still in Yamba, NSW for a week - then will track through Sydney this time and run the Hume back to Melbourne.

Larger wheels and tyres have made a big difference to both running and economy.
They are at least a good 3 mpg better than the little 13's on 185/70's, but power and acceleration is down.. sob, sob, sob with the greater demand of the rolling diameter.

thanks again,
look forward to meeting up again,

frats,
Rosco
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