Mamma mia :) Plumouth - Dakar Ladaga!!!

Mamma mia :) Plumouth - Dakar Ladaga!!!

Jutud vabal teemal / huvitavad pildid ja viruaaltuuning
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Mamma mia :) Plumouth - Dakar Ladaga!!!

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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.

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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!

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Q: Do you foresee any mechanical problems?
A: No, because I am driving a Lada!

enesekindel mees.. :lol
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> Hi,Mike
> Thanks for the compliments and a Lada Samara entry this
> morning makes the Lada contingent 9 cars out of 38 cars on
> the rally.....not bad.I was in Estonia 18 months ago,having
> driven over in Zhiguli,which I gave to Matti of custom car
> fame before flying home.It only cost me $50.I think
> Estonia/Latvia would be a great trip for people from Britain
> as the drive need not be long if you take the ferry and I,for
> one can say it was a great holiday.I would like to tune my
> Lada,and might buy twin Webbers and manifold as a start,and
> would then fit LPG(gas)so I could afford to run it! I am
> forwarding the message to the USSR Cars newsgroup on
> Yahoo,and will pass it to the Lada owners club in England.
>
> I will be in touch again but perhaps not for some time.
>
> Best wishes from England.
>
> Julian
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