Across Australia
This story comes from our friends at AUSmotive.com:
>Forty-three years ago motoring journalist Evan Green caused a sensation when he became the first man to drive across Australia from east to west via the red centre. As if that wasn’t enough, Green then conquered the north-south route immediately afterwards. The car? An original, first generation Mini. The journey covered a staggering 19,000kms.
>Now, a second generation Green has followed in his father’s tyre tracks by driving a second generation MINI Cooper, of course, along the east-west route. Gavin Green was joined by photographer Mark Bramley and mechanical support was supplied by BMW Group Australia Senior Technician Darryl Cook.
>The trio covered over 6,600kms in 1o days with the only modification to the standard road going car being a strengthened sump guard.
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+ My Generation / AUSmotive
<p>I’m very envious, what an amazing thing to be able to do in this day and age! I absolutely love reading these sorts of grand adventures, and in a MINI no less. Congratulations mates!</p>
<p>Wow that’s really cool! One day I will do a trip like this 🙂 Very inspiring!</p>
<p>I was born in Sydney, Australia, and am very fond of “The Land of my Birth”. This is a great article and informs me about Australia like never before.
The article speaks so highly about the quality of the MINI, and I am so glad I also own such a great automobile.
Just a fantastic article – One I will want to print off and keep in my MINI file.
Thanks for including this Gabe.</p>
<p>So the guy took along a photographer and a mechanic? That means <em>someone</em> spent 6600km in the backseat of a MINI. Bravo!</p>
<p>Was the original trip completed with mechanical support?</p>
<p>@dr – yes, by an Austin 1800 for the most part, with a Land Rover for the rougher sections in Western Australia.</p>
<p>Nice! Hope to visit Aussie land sometime in the future!</p>
<p>Reminded me of that great African MINI journey of a few years ago. That was so kool.</p>
<p>Always wanted to go surfing “downuda”!</p>