The brains behind the event, Anthony has just pulled up to make sure all is ok, had a quick chat and buggered off to make sure all of his minions are behaving in the appropriate manner!
Rumours are circulating that Martin's youngest offspring visited the local nightclub with the doctors last night and didn't get back to the hotel until an hour before we had to leave this morning, I saw Marinas sister in law this morning and looked surprisingly chipper! I'll get the full story later, currently Peter Lovett is leading the event but Crown/Bryson should over take him by the end of the day as its all very hilly and the P76 has miles more power for the steep inclines. After the long hill climb from our regularity there was only one casualty, a Datsun with a failed fuel pump, quickly fixed we had a long downhill into the lunch control, the brakes on our HiLux haven't really been used until now so got very hot and caught fire much to the amusement of some competitors! The lunch halt was a pontoon out in a lake but the food was good so the novelty was short lived! Owen changed an alternator on a Chevy fangio and isn't feeling too well now, possibly a touch of dehydration?
A lovely drive through the jungle took us to the test this afternoon, lots of dust around and steep climbs, we had time to fix fuel vaporisation on the impala and he soon roared off up the hill, we took some pictures at the start line.
We stopped to look at the thickest jungle we've ever seen, had a pee and drove on towards the hotel.
Once back at the hotel we set about repairing a couple of the bentleys, one had a broken exhaust and the other had ignition problems, also fixed a couple of punctures and rewired the chavelle (beginning to really dislike this car for lots of reasons) a pushrod on an alvis is being sorted as I write, the beetle I spent a few hours on last night seems to have given up putting waste to the hard work put in to it.
A couple of beers and an early night is needed so ta ta
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