Peking to Paris

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

you are one lucky kid.i like the red over the original grey looks alot better:)

---

Thanks :)

Yes that was the reason they chose it, the guards are also different as they are the racer guards that dad had on it, but otherwise the rest of the body was built to be as near as possible to the original and it included a rear seat between the 2 big fuel tanks for a second passenger.
I won't go into details of the landcruiser steering box though... :p

For interests sake here is a photo of what the car looked like on it's last rally with us, http://www.vccansw.org/photos/img228.jpg (you can just make out my little motorbike helmet on the passenger seat :) )

Cheers
Will

the racing mudguards looked alot better then those big v guards that were on the original, well at least i think so

how come it got painted black?

Yeah they do, AFAIK the original guards doubled as sand tracks for the Gobi, but there were backup cars this time so they didn't need any of that.

Was never black, that is Brooklyn Green, the Sherwood Range Rover colour, my RRC pedal car was painted with the same paint :)

Cheers
Will

oh ok my bad. do i remember hearing on the dvd that your dad built his own glider or plane and flew it somwhere to somwhere else lol i just cant remember where hence the somwheres

Thats alright :)

Nah, not over his dead body lol, he's not real keen on gliders etc lol

Lang Kidby has done a few crazy things like that, but i've never met him, Warren was our connection as well as Anthony the mechanic on the expedition.

Cheers
Will

yes i was getting lang and your dad mixed up

I work for Ant who was the mechanic on the trip as Bigjon said!:)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by long stroke

I work for Ant who was the mechanic on the trip as Bigjon said!:)

---

Nice mate :) he's a top bloke

Say g'day for me :)

Cheers
William Garthon