back home
Submitted by AndyTurnbull on Sat, 19/07/2008 - 4:59pm.
well car broke complety, knackered fuel pump and hole in petrol tank. Lee ill be back at work this week, need a rest first. ill bring the final mileage with me, them dam khaz roads are hard
Date | Message | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 weeks 5 days ago | well car broke complety, knackered fuel pump and hole in petrol tank. Lee ill be back at work this week, need a rest first. ill bring the final mileage with me, them dam khaz roads are hard | |
| 19 weeks 6 days ago | 1st breakdwn yesterday @ 2212 miles. Fuel starvation blocked filter. Car on jacks, side of ukraine rd. Drop petrol tank remove & clean out filter. All else good | |
| 20 weeks 3 days ago | no phone reception for most of us. 7 hrs to go thru kaz border. V flat land. Camels. No trees. All doing well.blogging for Genghis car,1st gear,no known way, and surfers paradise. Flies and mosquitoes a menace, kaz border v corrupt. Land was all once sea.Heading toward Atyrau.Love 2 all @ home | |
| 20 weeks 5 days ago | Morn Early start Showered after stay in motel On way 2 Volgograd Smooth roads Rolling countryside Potatoe fields Derelict mines 1st breakdwn yesterd | |
| 20 weeks 6 days ago | Russian border.Took a few hrs but easier than Ukrain.Shopped in supermarket,dirt cheap.Were millionaires!Camp soon 4 night.LUA(love u all)esp babesX | |
| 21 weeks 23 min ago | just stopped | |
| 21 weeks 59 min ago | To my darlin sweet natalie, when i get home will you marry me, make me the happiest man in the world by becoming my wife and mother to our children? I love you | |
| 21 weeks 10 hours ago | On way to Kharkiv. Heavy rain. Roads quiet. Slept at petrol station. Love to girls. Surfers paradise 1/2 day behind and catching up. All is well.LUA | |
| 21 weeks 1 day ago | we are just outside kiev airport in a shell garage. Gonna pitch tents behind it. Been a long day driving and we all tired. Met team Gengis Car | |
| 21 weeks 3 days ago | To all u lovely people who r following our progress. Join team First Gear as we r travelling with them & team Surfers Paradise. We r 150 mls from Ukraine border |
Re: back home
sorry to hear you are out but well done for getting so far and glad you are back home safe ...
I am beginning to think after reading about Team 1st Gear and your troubles I am going to have to take a whole car's worth of spares to keep the capri running next year!
Re: back home
So when are we gonna meet up for a ride Andy?!
Paul
Team First Gear.
Re: back home
I thought after your recent adventures you might not want to see a car for a while ... but if you are up for it I will bring it around for you to have a spin in ... just as soon as I fix it! Does this sound familiar? I tried to get it ready for the Naadam to come on down to see you all off, so I got it MOT'ed after some welding etc (£160) then drove it home to discover a crushed wheel bearing and warped front disc giving the mother of all speed and braking wobbles - so back into the garage (£200) and then the insurance docs didn't arrive in time for me to tax it to bring to Highbury Fields anyway!! So I came to the Naadam in vehicle no 2 - a volvo 740. (cost £300 works like a dream!). Anyway, I got the docs for the Capri on the Tuesday after you left. So I taxed it and drove it to work to show off, a couple of weeks ago .. I managed to take the pics by Tower Bridge that you can see on the website (in photogallery). This was meant to be my 'official launch' for 2009. On the way home, the cooling system exploded! Coolant all over the engine bay, electrics frazzled and new water pump etc required!
So I have spent the last two weekends up to my elbows in grease and gunk and red lead and hammerite (whilst the radiator was out and the fan and pump off, I thought I might as well slap some paint around the engine bay and nose to hide the rust!). Anyway, I am learning how to use a spanner now 'cos I can't keep up with garage labour prices, so it's all good. Except the car. Which is broken and mostly in bits!
So far I haven't managed to drive from Woolwich to Bermondsey and back without something going wrong - how the ()*&! am I going to get it to Mongolia and back?
Re: team hansen transmissions Spares?
BTW .. Paul/Kev? Did you pass on Matt Splatts spares to Surfers Paradise? Or are they still in your knackered jeep somewhere in Kaz?
Re: team hansen transmissions Spares?
Matt's spares got passed on to Rob and Steve (Ghengis Car) so should be in UB soon!
Re: team hansen transmissions Spares?
cool i'll let him know .. did you get a GPS fix for where you abandoned ... i'm wondering if we can spot your car on google earth?