Frankenstein's Trip to the Nationals

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Frankenstein's Trip to the Nationals

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As I've already said elsewhere did a shakedown yesterday with the car bra on
Lunch at the Ravenswood Hotel on the way home 😂😂
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Packing the Ute today and them off early tomorrow morning with Mark Stone and Sherri.
More photos to come as we go.
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Exciting mate. Keep us posted.

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Looking good, keep the pics coming. A road trip is always good! See you soon.

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FireKraka wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 11:11 am As I've already said elsewhere did a shakedown yesterday with the car bra on
Lunch at the Ravenswood Hotel on the way home 😂😂
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Packing the Ute today and them off early tomorrow morning with Mark Stone and Sherri.
More photos to come as we go.
Very handsome- and you too s'pose😁
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Great news Neil,

Looks like your struts are in good nick as well ??? Did the replacement go ok ?

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Hey Greg the left stunt is ok just the right one to do now and apparently Frank has his own mind 😳😳

Frank say "apparently the fat old guy leaning on me has to come as well for some reason and if he stops complaining we'll both get there hopefully"

We are really looking forward to Narioopta 👍 Oh so is Robyn 🤣🤣🤣
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Thanks guys I'll make sure I post some photos and Greg it was supposed to say strut
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Have a great trip you mob, see ya there :thumbsup: If you get a chance, check out the accommodation at Madura Pass on the way over and see if its improved any , we could stop there on the way home if it has ?
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Nice one Neil. Have a great Nationals.
Wish we were going too.
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So we left Stony's at 6 this morning and made Balladonia at about 5:30 after stony had a minor issue loosing a caliper bolt on the front about 10kms from Southern Cross
6:00 Start
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Side of the road before Southern Cross
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You ain’t hangin around Neil. The wagon keeping up?


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Good to see its all sorted mate, did you find any Skylab bits before it got dark ????
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👍 safe travels
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Hey Clay yes we did over 900ks and don't worry Stonys wagon has an RB30 in it mate I think he sucks me along in his wake.

No Skylab parts Blacky but I think there are some aliens live out here 🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's a very cold morning here in Balladonia, just having coffee before getting ready to start another 700 odd Ks to Nullarbor

The guys at Southern Cross Tyre and Auto were awesome they ended up making 2 bolts and fitting them for Stony only delayed us an hour or so but we ended up driving the last 90ks in the dark which wasn't really that great but amazingly very little road kill along the side of the road, we were told this was because a lack of rain out here for a long time.

Any way will update tonight, Frank says see you soon. 🙄
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So we got to Nallarbor today after another 700ks plus travelling really well
Tucked the cars up this afternoon and went for beers 🍺
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Stopped along the way to look at the Bight.
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Think we are heading for Port Lincoln tomorrow
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