Round Oz Odyssey

The dream of driving around Australia is something that for most of us will remain always that: just a dream, an unfulfilled item on the bucket list. That’s not the case, however, for a small group of Ford enthusiasts, who took on the challenge of circumnavigating this wide brown land in a pair of Falcon XY GT-HO Phase IIIs. Images: Melbourne Filmmaker Mark Calleja from Cleargate Pictures and Fable creative group

Story: Steve Normoyle

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Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.”

These were the words of Henry Ford. We think it’s safe to assume that the carmaker would have approved of the way in which Ford enthusiasts Leo Khouri and David Frake used their Fords early in 2019.

As the Melbourne-based pair prepared for the trip to Adelaide to attend that year's Falcon GT Nationals event (held over the Easter weekend), an idea to turn it into giant road trip evolved. Rather than simply drive their cars from Melbourne to Adelaide, why not arrive in the City of Churches after completing a full lap of the entire mainland?