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Well its Plymouth to Banjul actually but the former had a better ring to it. One drunken Sunday in my local curry house and my mate tells me about this charity event a colleage has been on, it gets discussed over lots of Vodka and we decide its a great idea, Drive from Plymouth to Banjul in North Africa in a car worth less than £500 then sell it the other end and the money goes to charity. We decided on a diesel 190 as said mate had previously sold one for about £300, your allowed £15 on "race prep" which to us was an engine/gearbox sump protector which will be a plate of alloy rivoted to the chassis. Anyway when I got home I looked up the rally at the link below and found out the car has to be less than £100, Im still up for it though as it will be good fun and something to talk about later on in life, yeah I remember taking an auto box to bits in the Sahara when I was younger.....
And while your reading this thinking about suggesting cars there is one thing I havn`t mentioned, it has to be a left hooker as one of the African countries we are driving through does not allow right hand drive cars, which does narrow down ones choices somewhat.
I have also signed up another mate of mine (sent him a txt saying your not seeing your family over xmas you will be in Africa with Nige and I) and we are just waiting for the application form, I shall keep you all posted.
http://www.plymouth-dakar.co.uk/
And while your reading this thinking about suggesting cars there is one thing I havn`t mentioned, it has to be a left hooker as one of the African countries we are driving through does not allow right hand drive cars, which does narrow down ones choices somewhat.
I have also signed up another mate of mine (sent him a txt saying your not seeing your family over xmas you will be in Africa with Nige and I) and we are just waiting for the application form, I shall keep you all posted.
http://www.plymouth-dakar.co.uk/