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Thursday Morning we set off for Calais and the start of the rally, we
had our first encounter with the police 3 minutes later! fortunately they were
busy doing other things and had a laugh at the car.
The drive to Calais was
OK the usual hold ups on the M1 car park and the M25 car park, we did notice
our fuel gauge was a little temperamental when it it got to half a tank and but
decided "Dave" was just bored.
Approximately six hours
later we were on the train heading to Calais. On arrival in Calais with a
little bit of team work we found the hotel and start point of the rally. With 3
of us sharing the driving we soon learned we had different driving styles and
where as its bad enough having one back street driver (usually the wife or
girlfriend) having 3 other people doing it with no tact or diplomacy was going
to be fun!
We got registered and went for something to eat, it was at this point
that I introduced the others to the international language of "Dave", which for
some reason they had never heard of, this works on the principle if you call
everyone "Dave" and smile they instantly recognise what your saying and
language does not become a barrier. The international language of the Dave
works in all countries and with all nationalities.
It was decided once I had
proved the language of Dave did work that we would honour the car and call it
"DAVE" which is how Dave became our 5th team member, we also had a 6th
team member called John who was the sat nav, (called John because the voice is
John Cleese) unfortunately John was on occasion not very helpful mainly because
he did not do mornings especially mornings when we needed him! But lucky for us
we had the Loquax duck on the front of the
bonnet leading the way.
So there we go all set
for the start of the rally, "Dave" had already covered 275 miles.
It
should be mentioned that on the journey down to Calais we did discuss the fact
that we had no spares and no breakdown cover, however I had packed two screw
drivers! but Adrian not quite having the same faith as me and was also under
the illusion that "Dave" had been given a mini service, brought along some
sticky tape, a couple of cheap spanners and a tube of Araldite !? should we
breakdown we were fully equipped for a roadside engine rebuild because Araldite
fixes everything.
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