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Here's a trip from the early days of 4WD Action when we were pumping out the dvds. Now you'd reckon I'd know exactly when it was but there were so many trips over so many years I've lost track of anything much before last friday...
However I had hair, well more anyway, and not much grey in the beard and the big thing for me was that this trip to Cameron's Corner down the Bulloo River was the one were Milo's 13BT motor chewed itself out on the way home.
Seeing as Terrain Tamer rebuilt it, with me making plenty of trips to Melbourne, and then gave it back to me as a 50th birthday present I know it must have been about 2007 ish.
The whole premise was bullshit. That's not even Karen's - the real Handbrake's - voice in the starting moments of the film, telling me to 'go down to the corner shop' and get her some milk. What we wanted was some good, long desert miles and the run from Brisbane to the corner where the SA, NSW and Qld's borders meet was absolutely perfect. There are better. more sealed ways to go but I wanted to try something different so off we went via Dalby and the Balonne Higway, Cunnamulla and through Bulloo Station. In other words, about as much dirt as possible.
'We' was Milo and me accompanied by Producer Brad Pickford and my old mate Brendan 'Watto' Watson on camera in a rental Troopy from memory. The guys loved heading deep bush as much as me but with deadlines to meet once we'd got to the Corner and filmed everything, they took off straight back to Sydney.
That suited me so I punted home a day or so later, only to pop number 4 cylinder, followed moments later by number 3 running half mast. The old 13BT was a grey import out of a Japanese dump truck and apparently it must have been flogged lifeless before I bought it. But with good Penrite oil and plenty of fresh filters I'd squeezed another 240,000km from it before it's past finally caught up with it.
We could see all that in the strip down, the burn marks from the original 'cooking' showing up under plenty of freshly polished metal.
It was a slow trip home running at a top of 60km/h and with a cut down oil drum wired underneath the breather to catch the oil. I had a couple of bottles of FlashLube heavy duty Oil Stabiliser and I reckon that saved the day as I kept recycling the oil from under the motor back through for another run. Poor old Milo limped in to Brisbane four days later but I'd made it home.
And forgot the bloody milk. Typical. Go bush and go as far as you can whenever you can - it's good for the head
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