Instead of building a trip around an event, our fourth trip was a bit different. It was a winter roadtrip to Longreach in Queensland. Our route up hugged the great diving range and the return route was inland. Along the way we visited remote towns, a car museum, the Qantas Founders museum and saw a parts of Australia most people have never seen.
It was the first time we had headed north. I had never been to outback Queensland and had always wanted to visit the Qantas Museum.
Preparing my 560SEL for a 4,800km road trip
I will be taking my 560SEL on a 4,800km road trip to outback Queensland soon. Over the past couple of months I have been slowly sorting out a few things that could impact its reliability. ...
Planning a 4,800km road trip to outback Queensland
The last three of our big classic car road trips have headed south towards Victoria. This year it was time for something different. We are heading north to Queensland. Due to extreme temperatures and the ...
Longreach Trip – Day 0 – Sydney to Maitland
Our trip to Longreach in classic cars starts tomorrow morning. One of the things we learned in the first of these trips is that it is a bad idea to try and start out from ...
Longreach Trip – Day 1 – NSW Mid North Coast
The first full day of our 8 day road trip to Longreach and back started in Maitland. Due to a major landslide on Thunderbolts way, we had a lot more distance to cover than originally ...
Longreach Trip – Day 2 – Gwydir Hwy and New England NSW
The second day of our classic car road trip to Longreach and back started in Grafton. As we were able to stick with the planned route, we slept in and met at 6:15AM for a ...
Longreach Trip – Day 3 – South East Queensland
Our arrival into the sunshine state brought with it heavy rain overnight. By the morning, the rain had stopped, but a thick fog was over the region. Visibility was down to only a car length ...
Longreach Trip – Day 4 – Central Queensland
After travelling mostly northwards for the last few days, today would be heading west. We started out In Monto at 6:30AM. Due to the clear skies it was quite cold and frosty, 3.5C according to ...
Longreach Trip – Day 5 – Longreach
The fifth day of our trip would be the day we finally arrive in Longreach. This trip has been much more about the journey than any one destination, but Longreach is the furthest point from ...
Longreach Trip – Day 6 – Southwest Queensland
Day six was a shorter drive than usual. This was largely because we are travelling through Southwest Queensland, a very sparsely populated part of the country. There are only so many towns that have good ...
Longreach Trip – Qantas Founders Museum
During my road trip to Longreach, I attended the Qantas founders Museum. Qantas is the second oldest continually operating airline in the world, after KLM. It was founded in Winton, Qld in 1920 as Queensland ...
Longreach Trip – Day 7 – Inland Northern NSW and Warrumbungle NP
The penultimate day of our trip had us starting in Queensland not far from the NSW border. Yesterday we had finished up in St George. The morning was yet again quite cold and we rolled ...
Longreach Trip – Day 8 – Bylong Valley and Putty Road
Our final day of the trip started much the same as the others. We set out from Coonabarabran at 6:30AM as we headed towards Sydney. It was quite cold and overcast, so we had to ...
Longreach Trip – The Cars
Our almost 5,000km road trip to Longreach had seven cars participate. All seven completed the trip successfully. Of the four such road trips we've done, this one probably pushed the cars hardest. Yet we had ...
Longreach Trip – National Transport Museum Inverell
One of the stops on our big road trip to Longreach was the National Transport Museum at Inverell. It was only a minor detour for our group to go and check it out. The museum ...
Longreach Trip – Summary
Our fourth annual road trip in classic cars was the most ambitious yet. There is nothing better than using these cars as they were designed, while seeing parts of Australia I would otherwise never otherwise ...
