Our Vehicle

23 / 11 / 05

Finished the under protection. The rotor arm in the dizzy exploded as well!! £60 + for a new coil, dizzy cap and rotor arm (the arm chucked in free by Motor Parts Direct.

01 / 11 / 05

The Newbury Weekly News camera man came today. Hopefully we'll make this thursday's paper.

Metaflux (part of the Metatec group) is sending us some goodies for the trip. We got to pick them up

27 / 10 / 05

All stamped up and ready to go!

25 / 10 / 05

Alan supplies a two bar Thule roof rack.

22 / 10 / 05

The rain holds off and the wind is calm giving us plenty of time to spray - despite running out of paint!

Steve makes a modification to the air filter. Click here for Steve's guide.

21 / 10 / 05

We start painting the sign background on the Merc but get rained out.

16 / 10 / 05

Steve & his Dad fabricate a bash guard from alloy sheets donated from Alan.

Check out the slide show 'PART_1' & 'PART 2'

06 / 09 / 05

Door challenge stickers added .

13 / 07 / 05

Merc passes MOT needing only the rear break hoses replaced.

09 / 06 / 05

Having seen an advert on Steves Employers internal web site, we made a trip up to Layton Buzzard to look at a possible steed:

Make = Mercedes Benz 380SE
Gears? = Automatic
Engine = V8 3.8 Litre engine
Colour = Blue
Price = £500
Gismo's = Leccy windows/sunroof/mirror, three spare wheels, environmental conditioning and all the documentation possible!

06 / 06 / 05

We are reviewing what vehicle to use.

What we would like is an estate of some decription such as:
Volvo 740, Lada Riva or a van

We've put out the feelers for a Lada Niva 4x4 with the other challenge applicants.

We are awaiting a Vaxhaull Nova to under go it's mot this week before test driving it. It should cost us around £235 and will be our reserve car if nothing else comes up.

Hopefully today we'll also be checking out a Mercedes Benz 380SE of the 1984 era.