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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
- Cortina d’Ampezzo
- Mud, glorious mud
- First rally car – last rally car
- Meanwhile, back in Barnsley
- Across the Sahara and back
- Timbuktu
- George Hinchcliffe – London to Cape Town
- London to Sydney can’t be tougher than this
- Edgy Fabris
London to Cape Town – January 8th, 1963
As you can see by the passport stamp above, by January 8th, 1963, our intrepid duo were now in Africa. This was when their real adventures began. The situation the previous day in Europe had meant that they’d been forced to change their route and had caused a delay in their planned schedule (there were to be many more) so they wanted to make great progress if they could.
They were gradually becoming used to the heat. Ken Chambers had never set foot in Africa before and both he and Eric Jackson enjoyed the heat as they had left England in the grip of the Big Freeze – one of the coldest winters on record in Britain. And soon, as they traveled down through Africa, the temperatures rose and rose. As it says in Petrol in My Blood:
It’s easy to forget that the car has no air conditioning at all. Imagine driving for days through Africa with no AC! It was on this day though, that Ken and Eric experienced their first accident.