fastest drive around australia

[Billzilla]

If you do it, make sure you do it anti-clockwise as the trip will be a little shorter.

FWIW a mate of mine drove from the Gold Coast to Sydney in 6.75 hours in the mid 80's. He had a police scanner in the car and so was able to avoid the roadblock that was set up for him about halfway down the NSW coast.

[HARD CUNT]

interesting time getting from north of Perth to Broome and Darwin....and Weepa to Cape Tribulation??

it would be ok atm, my boss is doing the cape at the moment

i wouldnt wana do it after september until march/april

[fly510]

fags

give me the driving record and the route taken already!

When my mate worked for motor magazine they broke some record for driving a particular route around OZ a few years back in special order VY or VZ SS's. There was two cars with 3 drivers in each and they had 180 litre tanks, big spotties etc.

Edit - I'll check with my mate tomorrow regarding the route details but it was around 9 or 10,000kms from memory.

[piss98]

My building manager holds the world record for one lap of Australia on a Honda Scooter.

So with the leso's near you that we never got pics of, yourself and now this guy we can safely assume you live in a gay hostel of some sort. :D

[TJ]

Canonball style run would be epic.. but would require immense planning, huge $$, skill, balls, and alot of luck.

Doubt youd make it without arrest or being done for some serious fines.

[MartyHusseinXF]

it would be ok atm, my boss is doing the cape at the moment

i wouldnt wana do it after september until march/april

I was just there, what do you mean by "doing the cape"?

[floody]

A guy who i knew when i was living in Melbourne (idiot Swede, a real one) thought his flight over to the US was leaving from Melbourne until 8pm the night before it was due to leave, and found out that it was leaving from Brissy at 7pm the next day.
Instead of doing what any normal people would do and just fly up, he decides that he wants to see Australia one last time and hires a car to drive up the coast to Brissy. NFI how he made it in time, but the next time i heard from him he was in San Francisco, and had about 40+ speeding fines which he wasnt intending to pay.

Easy done, surely? We did Bundaberg to Ballarat in 23.5 hours and thats almost 500km further, no speeding fines. Although to the dude's credit, it was me and my old man, not a solo effort like that.

[rorge]

I could understand that as reasonable. After 3hrs sleep the night before, I drove from Brissie to Canberra in 14hrs and was still incredibly fresh! (and still keen to drive) In fact i went out that night and was drinking until around 2-3am.

Although i think us car folk may be a little different to others...

[meggala]

I have done melb alice spring and return including 3 days of holiday ie climb ayres rock and see sights 7 days in a 4 cylinder 4x4.
melbourne> brisbane in 1985 17 hours in a bog stock tf model gemini ( 2 drivers). top speed 155 kph
sydney melb back in the day 7 hours in a modded zl fairlane gas and petrol only stopped for one speeding fine 129 kph on the hume in vic.
it was common for semi's to do melb perth in 34- 36 hours with one driver in the 80's.
there was a guy years ago di the lap or oz in a xb or xc falcon complete with toilet in car very quick.
cheers

[meggala]

btw I think the record is 6 or 7 days it was 20 000klm from memory for a lap of australia. following highway 1

[23Kev]

start cairns and then all the way to broome i'd say would be easy, tar roads. broome to cairns i'd say there would be some dirt roads. google maps picked this route but it doesn't take into account dirt/tar roads.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&s...e=UTF8&t=h&z=5


and then a quick auto map of the whole route....
http://tinyurl.com/kn6tpq - 13748km's. You'd definitely have to work out what the roads are like up the top end....darwinian's??

If you want someone to come with, i'm off work until the 20th...and not doing much!

[Mr Purple]

4 days 10hours in a hire car using the National Highway a few years ago by some Servo workers who decided to after reading the km free conditions on a contract. Will try and find the Street Machine mag it was in and dig it out. Average of 140kmh.

That's awesome. Abuse of hire cars is an Australian tradition.

I had one last week briefly and managed 1340km in a bit over 12 hours. At that sort of mileage it's probably cheaper than driving your own.

[RB30-POWER]

slightly offtopic, but there is a vid i was watching with a new m5/m6 driving across europe setting a time record, more or less 300+km/h on the autobahns non stop.

testiment to the cars engineering i reckon.

they only had a fuel and driver stop from memory.

[oxy]

Make sure you drive anti-clockwise

[sean]

start cairns and then all the way to broome i'd say would be easy, tar roads. broome to cairns i'd say there would be some dirt roads. google maps picked this route but it doesn't take into account dirt/tar roads.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&s...e=UTF8&t=h&z=5


and then a quick auto map of the whole route....
http://tinyurl.com/kn6tpq - 13748km's. You'd definitely have to work out what the roads are like up the top end....darwinian's??

If you want someone to come with, i'm off work until the 20th...and not doing much!

Pretty sure you'd need to go via Katherine to stay on the bitumen rather than popping out down near Daly Waters (my favourite pub).