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Donnerstag, 20. April 2017
ERA Africa rally
The Jaguar we owned for around thirty one years is an entry in this years rally, by all accounts the car went well on its shake down drive to Port Elizabeth and back to Cape Town.
The rally started at the Cape Grace Hotel, V and A Waterfront, Cape Town at 8am on May 2nd.
This was the basis of the cars preparation for its new owner who was flying in with his wife from Australia.
Greg and Jenny bought the car unseen and on the basis of a phone call. The car is a 1966 Jaguar S type which I restored over the years, it has won the Jaguar Car Club concour' s event five times in its class.
The nice Motolita wood rim wheel was removed and replaced with the correct and much stronger original Jaguar steering wheel!
This is the route
Roy
17th April 2014, the news is they are now in Botswana!
The rally started at the Cape Grace Hotel, V and A Waterfront, Cape Town at 8am on May 2nd.
Greg and Jenny bought the car unseen and on the basis of a phone call. The car is a 1966 Jaguar S type which I restored over the years, it has won the Jaguar Car Club concour' s event five times in its class.
The nice Motolita wood rim wheel was removed and replaced with the correct and much stronger original Jaguar steering wheel!
This is the route
http://www.endurorally.com/pages/5th-classic-safari-challenge-2014-route
Twenty six days of rally driving in classic cars,the cost? GBP 24,000 (Rands 430,000?) for this years entry which was sold out, the next event may be in 2017?
To take a fine car like this and prepare it for a 26 day rally around Southern Africa is not a low cost item, we can search out and prepare similar cars and of other makes, you will still find this option less expensive than preparing your own car and shipping it to South Africa?
Twenty six days of rally driving in classic cars,the cost? GBP 24,000 (Rands 430,000?) for this years entry which was sold out, the next event may be in 2017?
To take a fine car like this and prepare it for a 26 day rally around Southern Africa is not a low cost item, we can search out and prepare similar cars and of other makes, you will still find this option less expensive than preparing your own car and shipping it to South Africa?
Roy
17th April 2014, the news is they are now in Botswana!
Montag, 30. Januar 2017
ERA rally update
So where has our 1966 Jaguar 3.8 ltr S type got to you may wonder?
( monday afternoon, 19th of May 2014) they are now at the Etosha Pan in Namibia, tommorrow is a lay day?
Now this is a heck of a long way from Cape Town and on day 17 they still have a long way to go before they return and through Namibia!
Roy
My thanks to Wikipedia for the information below.
Sunday, 18th May 2014, they have now crossed into Namibia and can be found in the Caprivi Strip town of Mukwe, thats quite some drive out of Botswana.
( monday afternoon, 19th of May 2014) they are now at the Etosha Pan in Namibia, tommorrow is a lay day?
Now this is a heck of a long way from Cape Town and on day 17 they still have a long way to go before they return and through Namibia!
Roy
My thanks to Wikipedia for the information below.
My last fill up of LRP (lead replacement petrol) was done in our village of Hout Bay and on the way to Cape Towns, Salt River to hand the car over, look where the car is now!
Sunday, 18th May 2014, they have now crossed into Namibia and can be found in the Caprivi Strip town of Mukwe, thats quite some drive out of Botswana.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland) in Botswana is a very large inland delta formed where the Okavango Riverreaches a tectonic trough in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari. All the water reaching the Delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired, and does not flow into any sea or ocean. Each year approximately 11 cubic kilometres of water spreads over the 6,000-15,000 km² area. Some flood-waters drain into Lake Ngami.[1] The Moremi Game Reserve, aNational Park, is on the eastern side of the Delta. This statistical significance helped the Okavango Delta secure a position as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, which were officially declared on February 11, 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania.[2]
The area was once part of Lake Makgadikgadi, an ancient lake that mostly dried up by the early Holocene. Although the Okavango Delta is widely believed to be the world's largest inland delta, it is not. In Africa alone there are two larger similar geological features: the Sudd on the Nile in South Sudan, and the Inner Niger Delta in Mali.[3]
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