Mamma mia :) Plumouth - Dakar Ladaga!!!
Postitatud: 16 Okt 2002 11:16
http://www.plymouth-dakar.co.uk/
The Rules:
These are the only Rules known at present:-
1 Competing cars must cost less than £100.
2 Maximum budget for the vehicle Rally Preparation: £15
3 Once the Rally is underway, there will be no form of formal assistance from the organisers in any way - Teams are ON THEIR OWN.
4 All of vehicles that make the full distance to Dakar will be donated to local Charities before the competitors fly home.
=====
Questions & Answers with Julian Nowill
Q: Have you done this before?
A: Yes I drove a £25 Lada almost all the way to St Petersburg last summer with three other Devonians. We gave the car away in Talinn and flew back from Helsinki.
Q: Are you worried about getting lost?
A: No, we are on tarmac virtually all the way.
Q: What do you anticipate your biggest problem being?
A: Disposing of the cars as tourists are generally required to export their cars with themselves.
Q: Do you foresee any mechanical problems?
A: No, because I am driving a Lada!
Q: Why Lada?
A: Well I have written a book on Ladas called Eastern European Cars and am a great supporter of lost causes. The Lada Riva and its derivatives is perhaps the world’ best selling car of all time, a higher figure than the Beetle or Model T Ford and while not good, they are not as bad people say they are. In addition what other car can be bought for around £100 and will give reliable service and average fuel economy.
Q: What do your work colleagues think of this?
A: They think I am completely mad?
Q: What do your clients at the office think of this?
A: Whenever I have visited them I have always turned up in a banger and I suspect they either think that I am a useless stockbroker or an eccentric or both!
=====
The Rules:
These are the only Rules known at present:-
1 Competing cars must cost less than £100.
2 Maximum budget for the vehicle Rally Preparation: £15
3 Once the Rally is underway, there will be no form of formal assistance from the organisers in any way - Teams are ON THEIR OWN.
4 All of vehicles that make the full distance to Dakar will be donated to local Charities before the competitors fly home.
=====
Questions & Answers with Julian Nowill
Q: Have you done this before?
A: Yes I drove a £25 Lada almost all the way to St Petersburg last summer with three other Devonians. We gave the car away in Talinn and flew back from Helsinki.
Q: Are you worried about getting lost?
A: No, we are on tarmac virtually all the way.
Q: What do you anticipate your biggest problem being?
A: Disposing of the cars as tourists are generally required to export their cars with themselves.
Q: Do you foresee any mechanical problems?
A: No, because I am driving a Lada!
Q: Why Lada?
A: Well I have written a book on Ladas called Eastern European Cars and am a great supporter of lost causes. The Lada Riva and its derivatives is perhaps the world’ best selling car of all time, a higher figure than the Beetle or Model T Ford and while not good, they are not as bad people say they are. In addition what other car can be bought for around £100 and will give reliable service and average fuel economy.
Q: What do your work colleagues think of this?
A: They think I am completely mad?
Q: What do your clients at the office think of this?
A: Whenever I have visited them I have always turned up in a banger and I suspect they either think that I am a useless stockbroker or an eccentric or both!
=====
