Wednesday, 6 August 2008

MOT Update.

Getting somewhere finally. MOT resulted in a fail. Offside steering arm again so no surprise there and the nearside handbrake which was.
I haven't got time to fiddle with the car this week (or next) so have had a mad day of finding bits and people to fix them.
Team Saabotage have sourced us a replacement steering rack and I've booked the car into a local SAAB indie, nearby to have the swap done. Hopefully they will look at the handbrake and when both jobs are done I can drive the car straight back to the MOT garage and get the car passed. Which means I can get some road tax for it and the car is finally legal for the trip. It won't have a head unit for tunes though. I'll probably throw one in the car so we can fix it up on route - if someone brings some speakers with them.

I'm also in the middle of finalising the GPS tracking unit, need to fill in a few forms before getting hold of it and installing it. Hoping to have the live tracking page up mid next week.

More importantly in the way of progress, Cheq has booked the ferry so we have means out of the UK and on to mainland Europe so we can at least get to the start line.



My young son was ecstatic to see Daddy's Race Car back outside the house too. It's only been gone 2.5 days so I've no idea how he will react when both the car and myself have disappeared for over a week.

Oh and many thanks for those that have donated to the Noah's Ark Appeal today via our fund raising page and to those that have done so in the run up to this event.
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The Valhalla Run

In Norse mythology, those who fell gloriously in battle passed on to a magnificent place called Valhalla. In bangerese we call that a scrapyard. If Valhalla has a car park, we're sure to be adding to it before this route is run.
Valhalla Run is StreetSafari's 5th European Banger Rally.
We've gone in every other direction: East through Europe; South to Africa; West to America.

Nowhere to go now but North...



The event starts in Copenhagen on the 18th of August.

We cross into Sweden, and then on to Norway to do the impressive Trollstigen (Troll Ladder), before a night in Kristiansund.
For anyone dipping their toes in the various seas and oceans around the world, this is your chance to see the Arctic Ocean.

From Kristiansund we travel all the way to Umea on the Baltic Sea, cross by ferry to Korsholm and then head towards Helsinki for the final night, 22nd August.
The distance is around 1,700 miles, through terrain unlike most people have ever seen before.

This is more different than any other StreetSafari event to date. You can also bet it's more desolate than the other European countries we visit. Norway has less than 5m people in a country nearly 50% bigger than the UK!