Off-Road Falconers!

[EdG60]

Just pondering ...

Kids are planning on another cruise down the track in June, and I've been teasing the Missus and the kids that I'm gunna take the BF wagon. This, naturally, has her a little concerned, and the Kids are united in their nay-saying.

Have any of you driven the Border Track (SA-Vic border line) in a Later model Falc?

I've done it dozens of times in X series, but the later models are a different ball-game.

X Falcons had a front suspension system that lent itself to bigger wheels and lift, So 31" tyres was an easy fit.

[Trevor 57]

I have driven the border track in a GU Patrol ute and I can tell you if you are going to take the same border track as we did you are NEVER going to get a Falcon to do it, even the Patrol (towing a trailer) struggled up some of the sand dunes


https://hemamaps.com/blogs/location-...s-border-track

https://www.parks.sa.gov.au/parks/ng...servation-park

[EdG60]

Originally Posted by Trevor 57

if you are going to take the same border track as we did

Yeah there's only one "Border Track" so it will be the same one. I lived out there until 1982, and the track was how I got to work on Mondays and back home on Fridays.
I should qualify that in saying that this is back in the time before the boy racers in Lard Bruisers and Missing Pootrols decided that the only way up the dunes was to fit mud tyres and throw rooster tails all the way up.

[Trevor 57]

Well that was a waste of time responding, thanks to your comment "boy racers in Lard Bruisers and Missing Pootrols"

1982 was 40 years ago

I am 65 year old mate, I am no "boy racer"

Good luck with your trip, make sure you have the phone number of a recovery business

[Vesper Martini]

The border track
https://hemamaps.com/blogs/location-...s-border-track

but if you lived there you should know it better than anyone.

Ive never been there but I can see its obviously not suited to a BF Wagon. listen to the wife.

[janddbone]

I did a section of it earlier in the year as I live out this way. Part of it is newly cut in the last ten years or so and is easy. Some of the harder part we did , I would not have wanted to have been in a BF! You could definitely look around up here no problem in one.

[EdG60]

Originally Posted by Trevor 57

Well that was a waste of time responding, thanks to your comment "boy racers in Lard Bruisers and Missing Pootrols"

1982 was 40 years ago

I am 65 year old mate, I am no "boy racer"

Good luck with your trip, make sure you have the phone number of a recovery business

Hey dude, sorry, meant no offense and wasn't suggesting that you were a boy racer.

However, the plain facts are that it is the boy racers who have carved out the furrows through the area, particularly the bog holes further down. They did not exist in the days before the 4WD craze, and with any sign of a hole starting we'd bring in a load of sand and fill them in.



Pretty sure I could still get through in my old XW if it still existed, and 2017 I got to the top of the third dune in Ngarkat in the Mazda Bravo before I discovered that I was still in 2WD.

As an aside ... on that trip, there was a big line up at the 2nd dune, and we thought that someone may have been seriously bogged or broken down. Turned out the boy racers were tearing up the dune, coming back down the side tracks, and then going back up again.

[Vesper Martini]

Makes sense what you say now, all the hard packed sand is cut up, you only need to look at videos of Fraser Island to see what they do.

Ground clearance aside - the old slush box in the XW would actually for better in the sand than than the 6 speed ZF in a BF Falcon

[EdG60]

oh ... ummm ... there seems to be some confusion ....

to clarify, I was not asking if I could or should do it.

Was asking if anyone here had done it