day 2 questions

start of day 2

After a very civilised crossing with a full 8 hours sleep we are heading to "tours" just south of Paris. A couple of snaps of team leaders already today.

Wish us luck.... Bring on the french wine and food. 

day 1 questions

Here are day 1 questions.

made it down to the start....

400 miles and 8+hours of driving down already, we've made it to the wettest start of a rally we've had..... 

Mike's gone in for registration and we are lined up in the convoy for the start in about an hour.

Let's see where this year takes us... 

A couple of sleeps left......

Time is drawing near for us to start this challenge again.... Costumes a ready this year we are going as "the composers" brought back to life for another European tour the world famous...

Brahms and Liszt

it needed some work.

With a car outside and no MOT the race was on to get some second hand parts and get it ready for an MOT as quickly as possible.

Did it need some work? Hell yeah, the chassis was straight but all radiators and mountings were bent, so with an £1800 quote just for the radiators from Audi Halifax it was clear this was going to be an eBay build.

Stripped back at the local garage she was ready to start building back up.. within the week she was holding fluids and new to us radiators and a new crash bar shockers we had a rolling chassis to come back and get the finishing bits added to the front to call it a car again...

2025 - Vienna or bust it's almost here

This year's rally started on day 5 of last year's rally..... After losing the mini in northern Italy due to a damaged harmonic balancer throwing the ancillary belt and needing to conserve phone batteries (hence not blogging) we ended up in Trieste in an Airbnb wondering how we ended up without a car again.... A quick auto trader under £1000 search showed an Audi with crash damage for £995.... But it's a stupid rally and we weren't doing it again!!!!! So end of search.

The car was still on auto trader 2 weeks after getting back (which should have been a red flag) but 1 phone call and 3 hours later it sat outside on the road with no MOT and a broken window....