OUTBACK, IN STYLE

Combine a thirst for adventure, an unwillingness to slum it, tons of ingenuity and engineering excellence, and this is what you get

Not many folk would tackle Australia’s treacherous interior off-road in a secondhand Saab 900 – but Graham and Ingrid Roberts aren’t exactly typical folk. The couple readily recall their earliest sojourns into the outback 25 years ago in their modest Saab, carrying little more than a tent and a box of tinned food. ‘We got sick of building roads for it,’ says Ingrid. ‘Out behind the Gammon Ranges in South Australia, we were constructing our own tracks from rocks and sticks – the locals couldn’t believe that we got through.’ And neither could I – not until being handed proof in the form of an old photo showing Graham, in the midst of an ochre quagmire, scooping clods of clay from the stricken Saab’s wheelarches. Unsurprisingly, they both decided there…

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Land Rover Owner (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2019

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