Singapore to London

[mojo]

An 87-year-old man who made history by driving overland from London to Singapore 63 years ago will be doing it all over again in August. This time, Tim Slessor and his six team members will be making the journey in the opposite direction - from Singapore to London. They hope to complete their return journey in 100 days.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_fMtgeuAeE&t=1s

[jerryd]

I was watching this last night, what an amazing trip for an 87 year old to make [smilebigeye]


Grammar Productions - The Last Overland - Teaser (2019) [No Subs] on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/312435953)

[incisor]

interested to see the route seeing a lot of the original trips route is no longer trafficable or in some cases non existent..

love reading the book, must have read it 5 times so far...

[1950landy]

There is a guy in the Rover Car Club Qld who with his wife & 3 kids drove from the UK to Australia ina 1960 SWB Land Rover which they had owned since 1973, towing a caravan. The owner still owns the LR & is in the process of restoring it at the moment. I asked him the other day if he was planning to do the trip in reverse after he finished the restoration & his answer was NO. Some of the places they travelled through you wouldn't survive today & would probably get killed.[bigwhistle]

[Old Farang]

A bit more about it:

https://www.landrover.co.th/news/news_id/81

The Last Overland (https://www.lastoverland.com/)
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Not part of this subject, but should be of interest to the same addicts:

A Fool On Wheels - Tangier to Baghdad by Land-Rover (Barbara Toy) (https://www.automotobookshop.com.au/a-fool-on-wheels-tangier-to-baghdad-by-land-rover-barbara-toy-1st-edn-1955/)

Scroll down for more of them! Better hang onto "First Overland" if you have it!