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keep the hot air out!
“One thing that really hit home to me on the
trip was that when they built these cars in 1971,
they were built as production racecars. So they
had big radiators – we had no problems with
overheating.”
Overall, the cars barely missed a beat over
the entire journey.
“The only things we needed to change were
a starter motor and a wheel bearing,” David
Frake says. “The points closed up a couple of
times but that was easily xed with a screwdriver
adjustment on the distributor.”
So, what was the highlight of the trip of a
lifetime?
“Seeing the speedo needle in places I’d never
seen it before!” Khouri laughs, adding that there
were places along the way where the road
ad been blocked off for them so they could
o a ‘controlled drive’.
“One thing I found was that everywhere
we went, we would drive into some place
nd it was as though two UFOs had landed.
Or two things from out of the past had time
travelled into the present – you could see it
on people’s faces, whether they even knew
what the cars were or not. People received us
into their homes, they would put us up, feed
us. It was an amazing experience and an
amazing way to see the country.”
And it wasn’t even nished once they did
arrive in Adelaide (bleary-eyed and a little
bit dusty) for the Falcon GT Nationals. Apart
from the 700km trip home to Melbourne,
they still have to detour across Bass
Straight to officially complete the Odyssey
witha quicklapof theAppleIsle!
The Phase III Odyssey crews ‘set up camp’ at the
Adelaide showgrounds at the Falcons GT Nationals
after their marathon 17,000km adventure.