Day 100

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Created on Monday, 14 December 2015 10:16

12/13/2015 Melbourne (Australia)

Day 100  of our DeLorean World Tour.

100 days on the road without any significant technical or logistical problems
100 days with 150 GB of images
100 days with a lot of interesting and new contacts and acquaintances
100 days with 20,000 kilometers / 12,500 miles traveled
100 days through 15 countries
100 days on good and bad roads
100 days working Teamwork

After sleeping and breakfast there was again a technical check for the cars, Wolfgang adjusted the valve clearance on his Delorean, since only recently new camshaft and rocker arms were installed.

David Politino and Simon Hauser

At noon we meet Simon Hauser and David Politino with his girlfriend, together we  took a trip to the Healesville Sanctuary Zoo 40 miles away, where David Parkinson again joined us.

Here was the concentrated Australian wildlife to be admired:

Dingo and Emu

Tasmanian Devil and Wombat

Platypus and Lizard

Koala bear

Wallaby

kangaroos

and the Delorean World Tour Team:

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Created on Monday, 14 December 2015 09:57

2/12/2015 Adelaide - Melbourne (Australia)

Today there was again a pure driving day without special events, simply 454 miles on Australian Highway, partly single-lane, partly two-lane constructed. After just half the driving route we changed from the state South Australia to Victoria and are another half an hour ahead, now the time difference to Germany is 10 hours.

About 62 miles before Melbourne two Delorean owners, Simon Hauser with co-driver Corrado Principato and David Parkinson waited for us and accompanied us to the hotel after a photo session at Kryal Castle (a recreated medievel castle) and a short city tour in Melbourne. We've arranged to meet tomorrow to a common trip.

Corrado, Andre, Klaus, David, Simon, Wolfgang

Melbourne

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Created on Sunday, 13 December 2015 13:20

2015/12/11 Port Augusta – Adelaide (Australia)

Within 100 km the landscape and the temperature changed fundamentally. Shortly before Port Augusta the gaunt steppe had about 35 degrees Celsius. Here close to the ocean it is 15 degrees cooler, the landscape undulating and the vegetation much greener.

Lunch break at the salt lake.

Where could you visit Dublin, Salisbury, Waterloo, Windsor, Edinburgh and Virginia in one day? Only in Australia…

At 5 p.m. we met with Delorean owners from Adelaide at the Watermark restaurant. Five standard Deloreans and three Worldtour-Delos on the parking lot caused a sensation. Every car here was in very good condition and very neat. Once again we were astonished by the friendliness and hospitality of the Australians.

Paul Black, Darryl Hunt, Chris Till, Matt Warren, Richard Lowe

Photo shooting after having dinner together.

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12/19/2015 Coober Pedy - Port Augusta (Australia)

After a driving day without special events, only interrupted by a photo shoot on the edge of the Stuart Highway, we arrived at Port Augusta and thus the end of the Stuart Highway from North to South Australia. With our trip to Uluru / Ayers Rock, we traveled since Darwin 3150 kilometers, to Sydney there are currently around 2,100 km in front of us

Even today there are again endless scenery and fantastic views

The Hart-Saltlake:

At the photo shoot on the promenade of Port Augusta we were surrounded by people again, as thanks for Delorean pictures in front of his hotel, there was free beer and free shandy from the owner of the Hotel Augusta.

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12/09/2015 Marla - Coober Pedy (Australia)

After a short day's ride of 140 miles we arrived at Coober Pedy, opals are found here in the ground  since the beginning of the last century, accordingly, the region is littered with opal mines and slag heaps. Even today, here are found around 75% of all opals worldwide.

Coober Pedy is the hottest place on our Australia tour so far , 40 degrees Celsius and the sun beats down mercilessly from the sky, therefore we are happy with our cave hotel, the room is built into the mountain and has a pleasant temperature.

In the afternoon we started a mine tour, the owner's wife turned out to be German emigrant and told us on a private tour interesting and valuable information about opals and Coober Pedy.

Sales talks?

The surrounding area of Coober Pedy has also been used in many movies as a location, the best known are probably the Mad Max films and Pitch Black. A Spaceship from Pitch Black and other movie sceneries can still be seen here today:

On the Highway: acrobatic performances for perfect photos