Yes the Cobra is on a trailer in the end.
The trip so far, Ok the Valiant has run great all trip but it is not the most powerful thing on the planet.
It is a factory 3 speed colomn shift manual with 215 engine, it does have a diff from an auto trans vehicle and teh ratio is about 2.92:1, so it struggles to get moving, once going all is ok.
The first day was Alice Springs to Glendambo, the first 200 kls was smooth sailing till the first service station stop, the Valiant with 1850kg trailer/Cobra on the back, a Valiant Charger roof on the roof rack, a Gen III short motor in the back, and a heap of other parts. Managed to go through 40 litres of fuel for 200kls (5kls per litre)
Then continuing on south, the next fuel stop (now that I had an idea how far the car could go on a tank of fuel) was at Cadney Park homestead.
Cadney Park is 320kls down the track from Erldunda, I had a big head wind for a lot of the driving and at times was down to 70kph, the Valiant went through 64 litres, so returned 5kls per litre again.
My GPS then decided to play a trick on me, I left Cadney Park and checked teh GPS, it advised me that Glendambo was 380kls away (I thought from previous trips it was further than that), it showed Coober Pedy as 240kls, so I figured I would get to Glendambo (or I had 30 litres in jerry cans).
So I get to where teh GPS says Glendambo is, and low and behold it is another 125kls away.
Anyway I got to Glendambo about 10 minutes before dark, which it turns out was 15 minutes before the heavens opened up.
Stayed at Glendambo overnight and on the road nice and early again.
As I get closer to Port Augusta, once again the heavens open.
I stop at Maccas for coffee and breakfast and fuel up, off again I get in contact with a mate in Two Wells and we meet up for a coffee and a chin wag, then on the road again.
I eventually arrive in Adelaide, and true to form the rain starts again.
My mate and I have a beer and wait for the rain to stop.
Eventually it does and I unload the Cobra into the garage.
Played a round of golf at the grange yesterday and relaxed, tried to fire up the laptop this morning and she would not go.
Here I am starting to load it up.
Saturday morning, just about to leave.
(Ronda put some friends on teh dash so I had someone to talk to)
The view out the front.
The SA/NT border.
The Val is sitting down in the bum due to teh gear in the back of it, with just teh Cobra and trailer she sits level.
And here we are at Glendambo.
Sadly it was too wet to get any more pics at my stops.
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