Broken Hill Visit

[wanderer]

For someone who wasnt on the lookout, I recon I did pretty well for a long weekend in Broken Hill and Silverton. We loaded up the Panelvan and took to the open road from Ivanhoe, Menindee and then onto the Hill and the plains west of Silverton. Things got a little 'film-familiar' on the Menindee road and even more so out past the lookout past Silverton. I pulled up and snapped a few pics of the spot, thinking this looks like the rollover spot, and what do you know.... it was!.
I even grabbed a sneek look at the 'remains' of the F100, buggy and burnt coupe wreck (unexpectably) and felt quite privaliged to have identified them, even though they look like they have weathered a decade of open-air garaging in the west. (rusting is a slow way to go out there). The old tarps have almost disolved and a sizable tree limb has fallen onto the Cobra truck.
We had a chat to the locals who are looking forward to the start of Number 4 and the expected $$$ into pockets. If filming is hoping for a dry-barren wasteland, they may have to wait a season or two. The country looks beaut out there with ground vegetation looking lush and healthy rather than the greys and reds that were seen in number 2.

[Yok_Rzeznic]

Who not take a camera?

[toecutter]

Definitely a drive worth doing.

I just completed a 1800 km road trip and the rain seems to have reached places i havent seen green for years. Almost all dams, even the most ridiculously sited ones, seem to be full.

You would be surprised how soon the place looks dry again, just wait until the end of the year.

[aussie muscle]

Sounds like a fun holiday

[dmould66]

i am in nsw and would be happy to help any foreign visitors with arangements, travel accomadation etc.

[wanderer]

I got my photos developed..... (read; I worked out how to link to Photobucket). Appologies for all the other guff in the background.
In the albumn is a few snaps of the left-over Max II movie cars we saw on our trip to Broken Hill. That BOB is a sad sad wreck!!
The F100 still looks the goods, sorta.... kinda......
And the Blue Holden HQ Panno, well she loved those big open roads!!
http://s750.photobucket.com/albums/xx14 ... ern%20NSW/

[cruzn2the max]

Sometime in 2011 a group of us here are going for a trip to the silverton museum, no dates have been set as yet so far.

yes the BOB is looking very sad these days, the ol f100 could be resurected and given new life again...maybe Adrian has plans for some of these old vehicles.

[aussie muscle]

In the albumn is a few snaps of the left-over Max II movie cars we saw on our trip to Broken Hill. That BOB is a sad sad wreck!!
The F100 still looks the goods, sorta.... kinda....
http://s750.photobucket.com/albums/xx14 ... ern%20NSW/

looks like his own personal rubbish tip. luckly it's fairly dry out there, how long you reckon it'll last out in the elements like that?

[MadMatt]

With no/little rain and airid climate it will be there for years to come!

[roadwarriormfp]

The desert is a great place to store stuff....
Its been there for 26/27 odd years.
(Theres plenty of rusty hulks out in western QLD which have sat in the sun for 30 to 40yrs).
It rarely rains out there unless its the monsoon season, which is extremely rare out there these days.