This is Neville and 83 Australian Ford Falcon wagon. With a load of around 2000 pounds of trailer and tipi poles and canvas. Plus three dudes there bags and food for a week or so. We proudly hung the Australian flag form front of the polls. It only covered the wind screen when we came to a complete stop, so we tried to avoid doing that. Also the day we were heading out we found the main neck of the trailer was snapped on three sides. Got that patched up and off we went.
Almost half way we had a wheel bearing go out easy fix in the parking lot and off we went.
This it the spot we unloaded the poles and started to reposition all the gear and make use of our new found storage room.
Clang, did you say Clang? The trailer snapped when we put the almost empty ice chest back on it. For the record it broke eight inches ahead of where I had welded it up before. That will teach me to fix something.
Some premium lashing of the tongue to the main trailer and it made it 20 miles on a dirt road back into town were we found a service station that would take it off our hands.
Of course we had to salvage all the best bits off the trailer so we lashed two tires a mast and the light bar form the trailer to the roof. And plugged the lights in for extra safety. We figured the flag helped us blend in and look more like locals. Tipis delivered and the falcon didn't miss a beat. But at eight miles to the gallon loaded Im glad I wasn't paying the fuel bill.
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