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Dave’s Isuzu Florian (What a GoA!)

  Today’s post is sponsored by the letter F , standing for Florian. Coincidentally, it could also stand for fire truck - or a contraction thereof - as it’s being written on an iPad, my MacBook currently being f'cked, seemingly having not benefited from being left switched on, unattended, for the better part of a fortnight. If a frozen laptop’s the only damage incurred for a couple of weeks’ driving holiday along the south coasts of Victoria and South Australia - routes known as the Great Ocean Road and Southern Ocean Drive, respectively - then continuing on to Kangaroo Island, so be it.   It was worth it! Spectacular as all that scenery was, it wasn’t the only thing to take my eye.   I am a car bloke, after all; no jaunt would be complete without some car porn and a good chat with a like-minded dude! The vehicular centrefold of this coastal odyssey came in the form of Dave Carey’s late 1960s’ Isuzu Florian , a model taking its name from the Greek god of road trips*.   It’s so damne