Nigel Post:
Arrived in Beijing and had to pick up the cars from a
Warehouse and then negotiate Beijing’s wonderful traffic jams all the way back
to the hotel. Not something any of the cars in this rally particularly enjoy.
However, fantastic to meet up with old friends we met during the
Madrid-Marrakesh Rally and to see the sheer variety of cars running in this
event, just extraordinary. 115 cars in total spanning approximately 60 years of
the heyday of motor car manufacturing. The Camaraderie is great and everyone tends
to open up very quickly about their lives as we are all in this big adventure
together so you get to know people easily with less of the usual social
reserves. Shovel and I spent the day going over the car and checking everything
was where it should be and all nuts and bolts properly tightened then in the
evening we joined a few people for a delicious dinner in one of the old and
quite rare Beijing Hutongs. Scrutineering tomorrow.
Shovel Post:
Fantastic to renew old acquaintances and make new ones – a
very eclectic bunch of petrol heads and the car park is a motor fanatic’s wet
dream. We went for a hot-pot dinner on Friday evening with a lovely bunch of
people introduced by Peter St George (aka The Smiling Assassin). Nigel keeps opening up to everyone about his
life – I watch with pity as their eyes glaze over. He really has no idea about
social reserves.
Saturday afternoon I feign a bad shoulder and watch as Nigel crawls around under the car doing a spanner check. He is getting quite good at this and I think I may make a mechanic of him by the time we reach Paris.
No comments:
Post a Comment