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- Petrol in My Blood – trade enquiries
- David Benson’s article about his arrest
- Press quotes from Eric Jackson and Ken Chambers
- The roads in Africa
- Round the world delays?
- The pretty girl on the docks at Cape Town
- Guns and tear gas
- Rosie’s Bar, Monte Carlo
- A few things I’ve discovered
- How’s the book going?
- Ouch
- Tulip Rally 1966
- The great meat pie race
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- Mud, glorious mud
- First rally car – last rally car
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- Timbuktu
- George Hinchcliffe – London to Cape Town
- London to Sydney can’t be tougher than this
- Edgy Fabris
1963 London to Cape Town January 19th
Accidents, bandits, delays, interrogations at gunpoint … Eric Jackson and Ken Chambers had experienced almost everything imaginable that could stop them beating the London to Sydney record. As they approached the South Africa border, they were pretty sure that they wouldn’t be able to sustain the average miles-per-hour they needed if they were to be successful. They were looking forward to getting to the passport control at Beitbridge so that they could borrow a piece of paper and a pencil!
In Petrol in My Blood, Eric writes:
And once they’d done their sums, things didn’t look promising. They decided to remove anything from the car that was causing excess weight – water cans, petrol containers, spares, tools, sand shovels, clothes, oil – they threw it all away, much to the delight of the customs officials who leaped onto the unexpected gifts. Little did our daring duo know though, that their action would be badly misinterpreted.
Now, with a badly-abused but lighter car, they were ready to set off on the last leg. Eric writes:
But if you’ve been following the story so far, you’ll be pretty sure by now that this last leg wasn’t going to be without incident …