Thursday, 5 June 2008

RoadPro Goes Rallying

I've always wanted to go rallying and now, at last, I have. We were in the Historic Rally Challenge - part of the Severn Valley National Rally and driver Jim Valentine (a RoadPro customer who runs a transport business) had only just completed work on his 1972 Saab 99. This was the first time out for the Saab and Jim was keen just to finish rather than to go flat out for a fast time. This didn't stop him hitting over 70 m.p.h. on the narrow, winding, gravel roads in the forests around Builth Wells. The car - being a Saab - survived its first outing without any serious trouble and I managed to avoid any major errors such as telling Jim to go right when I should have said go left. For a navigator, that's a bad mistake to make.

Here's a picture of the car and, even more interestingly, a Camos sat-dome on the motorhome in the background. And very smart it looked too.

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