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1- 'Giles and co found their car after an appeal on
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| Fact 2 - The car they found was
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3 - A key modification has been a power amplifier
for loud music in the desert on New Year's Eve. |
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Two
teams - who don't know each other from Adam - but they've got one
thing in common.
This Christmas they broke open the mincepies in a climate where
there was no chance of snow on Christmas Day.
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Giles
Coe, Mark O'Doherty and Grant Riley - all from Brighton - headed
to Africa in the 2004 Plymouth Dakar Challenge. Read
their weblog
So
too did
Crispin, Peter, Nick, and Spencer Kendall from Surbiton - three
sons and their Dad.
Read their weblog
But
we're not talking Paris-Dakar style rally here. Oh, no.
The
three week rally didn't feature state of the art super saloons built
lovingly by teams of expert mechanics and designed to show off the
manufacturer's latest gizmoes and gadgets..
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out to the shops - in Dakar |
No,
quite the opposite. The rules were clear - no car used could cost
more than £100 and you couldn't spend more than £15
on getting the car ready for the rally.
Once the rally is underway, there was no more help from the organisers,
who make it all pretty clear on their website. "Teams are ON
THEIR OWN", they write.
But Team Sir Ralph and Team Kiwi Cavalier made it all the way. Read
Giles Coe's weblog here and
Nick Kendall's weblog here.
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