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- 1963 London to Cape Town – January 13th
- London to Cape Town – January 12th, 1963
- London to Cape Town – January 11th, 1963
- London to Cape Town – January 10th, 1963
- London to Cape Town – January 9th, 1963
- London to Cape Town – January 8th, 1963
- London to Cape Town – January 7th, 1963
- London to Cape Town – January 6th, 1963
- 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
A few things I’ve discovered
Editing my dad’s book has been a revelation for many reasons as you can imagine. Probably the most surprising is that, although I already knew a lot about the trips – I was eight years old at the time of the London to Capetown record – I never knew just how very dangerous they were.
I am guessing that my dad played down the dangers when talking to my mum – he didn’t want her to put her hand down with a firm foot (one of my mum’s expressions) in the way that I imagine she would have done. And it’s interesting that Ford Motor Company, in their publicity, always played down the dangers. They made the marathons drives seem more like something you’d read in Boy’s Own Adventure. Yes, they’d mention bandits in the London to Cape Town stories for example, but didn’t actually tell the story of how the old fella and Ken were very close to death.
I’m going to list a few things I have discovered about Africa by reading and editing the book. It will give you a flavour of things to come …