Back from my 7500 mile cruise across Australia with 8 classic Cadillacs

[Caddy Daddy]

G'day everyone, well we did it, cruised from the Gold Coast in Queensland to Busselton in Western Australia for the Cadillac Nationals approximately 7500 miles , we left at the end of March and we returned in the first week of May, I know its been around 3 months now but it has taken this long to get ourselves back into some sort of normal living again, and to get back on the computer and to start telling the story and showing you the video and pictures we have of the cruise.

I will start off by saying that we crossed the Nullarbor, which is a very long road that is in the middle of know where, but also the most beautiful place as it is so close to the the Great Australian Bite, we had a 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 68 and a 77, oh, and half a 59 (the trailer). And by the way the 77 was trailered all the way due to the original 16,000 miles on the clock.

I will be starting to write up the story of our travels with pictures and video that you can click on a link to you tube, so keep your eye out for the start, I have attached three pics, my 61 & 59 trailer, all of us at the start (Penong Hotel) of the longest stretch before we hit another large town around 700 miles of almost straight road, and another of one of the views that we had looking back along the coastline of the Great Australian Bite when we drove along the Nullarbor, which means Tree-less Plains.

So keep your eye out for my posts, if you reply I will let you know when they are put online.

[Smedly]

that parking lot is one beautiful site
Sheldon Hay

[MY 59]

Wow, what a drive that must have been!

[INTMD8]

That's quite a trip! Great pics, I like how the newest car is the one being trailered 

[SixDucks]

Wow! That must have been an incredible trip. Is everyone on the journey still running their original engines and transmissions? Did anyone suffer from mechanical failures along the way? I would love to know the details. I hope to be able to do something similar with one of my Cadillacs someday.

Terry

[76eldo]

Absolutely fantastic!

Brian

[Caddy Daddy]

G'day again, thanks for your replies, yes it was absolutely the best thing I have done, I will be more forth coming with information as I write the story that goes with all the pics, but to answer some questions, yes we did chuckle about the newest car being on the trailer, but understood the reason.

All were using their original engines and transmissions, although my 61 and the 60 had the originals rebuilt some time prior, my 61 had done 30,000 miles since the rebuilt, and had about 3,000 miles on the tranny. We had no on the side of the road break downs at all, we had some minor maintenance issues which were easily overcome, more info on the stories to come. Here is another few Pics, a number of these taken by Robbie Rose, the owner of the 67 Fleetwood: