The laminated route -little did we know we'd be sleeping on top of these and the tonneau later that night.
so much preparation to the car and the drivers... but not enough...At the start ....
We were tested by the carburettor -after 60 years of it being on the car. We couldn't get the float valve to work. We had to make file washers to get the needle in the right place . The car was either fuelless or ran for a while before pissing petrol all over our legs. We'd say can you smell fuel but when it started splashing us we had to stop.... After 500 miles and 7 stops we knew we couldn't make it s drove 300 miles back to the hotel and it was v hard seeing the successful drivers return!
Did i mention the fire- well in a small french town we had the fan on and blew the horn at a wedding party - and smoke came form under the bulkhead.... it was all too much for the house wire david Thirlby had put in the car. I was at the wheel and isolated and Jon hopped out and covered me in the contents of the fire extinguisher..... fortunately this incident wasn't at the same time as a pissing fuel incident
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