Wrapping up the Around Australia trip.

It has been a while between then end of the trip and finalising some of the data from our travels, though things do tend to get in the way once you get back to the reality of work etc. don't they.

The Count is still going very well and is still awaiting the end cap to be replaced in one of the bottom trunnions, which is very annoying really as getting it to the place that does it is time consuming at best, hopefully they will have time to look at it soon. Oh and the headlights are still suspect as I am trying to locate a decent Series II dip switch for it as I know that is the cause of the main problem with the lights, but I thing the complete bypass with hand switches will need to go ahead in the meantime just so all is working properly.

So anyway the main point of the post is to give some details / stats about the run and the cars performance. Unfortunately this is not completely definitive, but it is the closest I will be getting and is mostly accurate I think, calculated by going back through all of the fuel receipts accumulated on the trip, so:

Total distance: 22,376 Kilometres
Total Litres of fuel: 1594
Average cost per Litre: $1.75
Total Fuel Cost: $2,777.18
Cost per kilometre: $0.12
Consumption in Litres/ 100 Kilometres: 7.12
Consumption in Kilometres / Litre: 14.04
Consumption in MPG (Imperial): 39.67
Consumption in MPG (US): 33.04

Overall not too shabby for a 60 year old car with a wee engine and a huge drive with one flat tyre and a clutch replacement being the only real issues, yes the headlights have been a bit of bother though not really a problem. In the end what can one say about the whole around Australia trip other than:

What a great little car!