Here we go, all is in trucknet if you look hard enough.
Search the above link to post 37 and there we have the answer with photographs. They moved the air stack to the nearside and remounted the air filter under the rear near side corner of the cab, freeing up sufficient space on the right hand side of the tilted over engine to thread a gear linkage through.
Production finished in 2006, but there aren’t many of the final generation around. Prices seem to start at au$50,000 increasing to stupid money. At the end of the day it’s only worth what someone is prepared to pay.
How much are they asking and is it badged Holden or Vauxhall?
Almost a dozen of them here. Holden for sale | eBay
There looks to be a specialist in Chester with a few other interesting Aus and other vehicles.
£60k Ford Escort !
I can only recall three, one on the Eyre between Port Augusta and Perth, another on the Stuart between Darwin and Port Augusta, finally this one may be a figment of my imagination, I think there is one on the Great Northern.
I don’t know if they are currently maintained, but Czechoslovakia certainly had sections of road designed to be used as airstrips if needed.
I seem to remember that they had a concrete apron in front of hanger type building protected by by an earth berm, that was used as a parking area.