only about 400kms for me in Daisy, but my brother and I recently did Perth to just past the SA border in one day in his dunnydore uterous. Thats my best effort. About 1500kms i think. Long day of nothingness.

Although the worst drive was in a prehistorc truck that I drove from Perth to Big bell Gold mine. Flat out it did 65km/h, and was wearing earplugs and muffs. That took me nearly 3 days. with several stops, just to stop the ringing in my ears, and to allow my butt to recover from the numbness.


But I cant top my dads best effort. He drove his Kb rodeo ute AND a Chamberlin tractor from Esperance to Perth at the same time! He would drive the ute a little way, then park it, hitch back to the tractor, and then drive that to the ute, and then swap over again. Its only about 800kms from Esperance to Perth, but it took him a week!

Ha what farmers used to do, just to make a few extra dollars.
Sorry all my stories are non datto related, but funny just the same.

i havent been far in mine yet.........BUT these old couple just done 15000km's 360km's per tank at 80-85km's p/h, and STILL going in there trustie 120y...and id say quiet a few stop for tea & biscuits...lol

i've done many trips from Ipswich to Newcastle, when i lived in Ipswich. Took 10hrs and cost about $80 to get to Newcastle, straight down the pacific highway,with 3 stops about 1200km's. not a bad road to drive on these days.

one of my 1000 buddies, in a B10 2 door, A14, 5 speed,
perth to Qld, across the paddock, him the dog, 1/2 cage fixed race seats, looked like a pig from the outside..
awesome quest...

i have that motor and gearbox now... :) and the car that replaced that one...

Vegas to Santa Maria California is the farthest I done, about 7hrs it was about 350 miles and about 150miles was on curvy mountain roads. My buddy once did about 12hrs from Santa Rosa California back to Vegas when the coupe was his daily driver.

Tom

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I actually saw your car and several others pulling onto the main highway i was heading to beachworth.

1800kms round trip (outside Melbourne to Western Sydney and back) in a 1200 coupe to pick up an a15 motor. On the way up it was 40 deg C outside and the motor started running hot so I had the heater on to take some heat out of hte cooling system. Stopped once for fuel and once for food each way, and about a 10 minute break after getting the motor in the boot (bad idea by the way, poor fit through boot lid area)

The drive home was mostly at night, and a hell of a lot easier. Only cost $110 for fuel all up (so around 110 litres for 1800km, and I wasn't exactly driving economically.

One big difference between Victoria and NSW - there are warning signs before speed cameras in NSW, and more to the point, they seem to be in 'reasonable' spots. In Vic if they ever put one near or at an accident blackspot, it'd be purely coincidental. all about revenue down here (and for hte record, I didn't break the law during the drive though I didn't muck about either)

If I had to do it again, I'd not do it before replacing the seat (not enough leg room for me in std form) and possibly a smaller steering wheel for the same reasons.

The motor ran smooth as silk (original factory a12 still going strong since 73!!) there and back, a little warm in the middle of the day, but didn't use water, and isn't using any water or oil back in melbourne! I do think that I could have done it easier with a freer flowing exhaust (1 inch outlet is probably a little restrictive even at highway speeds/throttle inputs.