A vintage car will spend the night perched precariously over a 50-metre drop off Macquarie Pass, after coming unstuck Monday afternoon.
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The driver and his passenger, aged in their 30s and 40s, were inside the 1964 Oldsmobile Cutlass sedan when it lurched backwards down a steep embankment, about 100 metres from the pass’s upper-most hairpin bend.
It dropped about five metres, almost at a right angle, before it butted up against trees and came to a stop.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Norm Rees said the men were able to climb out of the car and did not require medical aid.
“It’s a lucky escape,” he said. “Fortunately for them, as the tail end went down, it’s been caught between some trees probably five metres down a 50-metre embankment, so they’re very very lucky.”
The Mercury understands the car was travelling down the pass in convoy with similarly prized cars as part of an historical car rally, when the driver lost control.
Retrieving the wreck is expected to be a complicated task, which will not take place today.