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lifestyle motoring around the border
Top 4 driving roads in
North East Victoria | Southern Riverina
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Pictured: 2024 Mazda CX-70
NORTH East Victoria and the Southern Riverina region of New South Wales is Australia's premier inland playground, where every road allows you to take the long way home.
Thousands of kilometres of highways, byways, and less-explored back roads, criss-cross the border region from the High Country, to the Murray River and further north to the Murrumbidgee River, and over the past 57 years thecountrydriver has driven - well, almost - all of them.
We didn't ponder on our top four roads as they are the best, and there are so many other interesting roads through awe-inspiring scenery to choose from. We hope you enjoy driving them as much as we do.
So, what are you waiting for? Fill your tank/charge your battery and come exploring the region's great touring roads, villages, towns, tourist attractions, and historic sites with us.
Drive 1 - GREAT ALPINE ROAD
Arguably the best drive in the country (we believe it is the best) . . . more
Drive 2 - GREAT RIVER ROAD
One of the great drivers' and motorbike riders’ roads in the region . . . more
Drive 3 - SNOWY VALLEYS WAY
A laid back, scenic alternative to the busy/boring Hume Freeway . . . more
Drive 4 - GRANYA ROAD
Short, sharp, but oh so sweet. Excellent for those looking for a challenge. But beware . . . more
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Paul's auto snippet
The background to car badges
CAR badges and their histories are endlessly fascinating, and it makes sense to start with one we have all been so familiar with.
The first Holden symbol was a life-size wooden horse which stood above the Holden & Frost Saddlery works in Adelaide. When a new emblem was needed in the 1920s, a Wembly Lion medallion was chosen, depicting an Egyptian lion, the symbol of the Wembly Exhibition held in London in 1924.
Holden’s logo of a lion holding a stone was introduced in 1928 after Holden’s Motor Body Builders appointed designer George Rayner Hoff, one of Australia’s leading sculptors, to design the emblem.
The significance of the lion and the wheel relates back to a fable in which primitive man observed lions rolling stones that subsequently led to the invention of the wheel.
This emblem was affixed to all bodies built from 1928 to 1939 on the lower near side of the cowl. The logo was revised with the introduction of the 48-215 in 1948.
Another reworking of the logo was commissioned in 1969 and again in 1995. – Paul Murrell - seniordriveraus.com
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Digital local motoring history books free to read on line
'The Thomson Diary', by E.L. Holmes, and 'A spirit of progress - 110 years of motoring in Albury-Wodonga', and 'Are we there yet, Mr Holmes?', by Darryl Starr, are popular local motoring history e-books that are free to read online. Click on a book cover and wait a few moments for the book to load.
