Sunday, July 1, 2018

Road tripping in older cars.

Drive to Melbourne

Be boring if I just said - well it was a 700km drive so what! But it was.
Bugger
Mileages were ineresting;
At holbrook it was getting    11.8 l/100km (what a shit measurment)
Launceston        10.57 l/100km
sat on 100 to 110 prefered 103kmp                                        

Ferry

 I'm boring and love the ferry. Sleep and food is great. We were on level 1 with the 144 as my wife (the owner) requested.
First on, last off and no caravans to boogie with.



Performance

Faultless I cant see why people buy new cars. Sorry wait till electric is worth having. Till then a decent 1970's car will do.





  Re did the trip in my 1970 145S

 This time Oatlands to Queanbeyan pulling a trailer.


 Got 20 to 24 mpg at 60 to 70 mph.

Shipped some flour up too.

145s ramblings

As I wait for a time to do the trip back south with the 145s Ive been fiddling and fixing. First the manifold as in the previous post. Sti...