f**kIN BAM!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally bought another DR, got it registered after leaving it in the backyard for a year, left for Goulburn the next morning. No problems on the way over, spent a day cleaning it, looked really good for the show n shine, did a couple of sessions at Wakefield Park the next day then drove it back to Adelaide the next morning, no problems.
Felt really weird to be driving a DR again to start with, but after 2500km over a longish weekend (which is probably close to what I put on my first one in the couple of years I had it...) it feels pretty good now. Kind of truck-like, but good