We're at cabo da roca, the most westerly point in europe and our final destination. It's absolutely stunning and incredibly nearly all the cars made it here.
Plan is now petrol, cash, bbq and then the world famous coconuts club!
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Sunday, 24 August 2008
We made it!
Home straight
We are one hour from cabo da roca, trooping down the portuguese motorway in our convoy of a porsche 944, honda accord, ford mondeo, ford escort, toyota celica and the pug. A brief overheating moment around midday worried us combined with the fading brakes over the twisting hills. A big party awaits the successful sucateers at the coconuts club.
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Last day
We're on the final leg of the sucata run, driving from salamanca to cascais, portugal.
There's some convoy action today. We're following the landshark toyota celica and behind us are the essex grannies in their escort convertible, the sultans of bling and a clapped out renault 25.
Yesterday was spent driving on the N1, an empty highway that cuts through the heart of spain. We passed huge cliffs and small villages asleep in the afternoon heat. Our choice of a convertible makes even more sense now!
Our starter motor had seized up so we had to push start the car every time we stopped. It seems to have willed itself back to life today, fingers crossed... Luke closed his door yesterday morning and one of the headlamps fell off and shattered into a dozen pieces. Not the best timing as we were being watched by 2 coachloads of spaniards. To add insult to injury, we then had to push the car away to get it started. All of this in our 80s get up, god knows what the spanish made of us.
Funniest breakdown so far happened to team Epic Fail in their alfa. After making it as far as salamanca with almost no brake pads, they managed to break their only ignition key by accidentally throwing it on the windscreen! Cue no boot access and no way of starting the car. Luckily the crazy welsh guys broke the ignition barrel and the steering lock so the alfa is back on the road.
We all meet up every night in town for drinks and we haven't made it to bed before 3am yet. It's getting more and more difficult to get up in the morning.
There are now nine cars in the convoy, woohoo!
Tonight is the big party in cabo da roca. Hopefully we'll make it there in good time and have a siesta by the beach to charge up our batteries.
Over and out.
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Friday, 22 August 2008
Viva espana
We have arrived in san sebastian, weather great campsite full of sucateers with cars we never thought would make it. Pug going well, currently parked up alongside 6 other teams surrounding a spanish newlywed couple. A lot of alcohol is on the cards tonight as san sabastian is picturesque and appears very lively... More to follow
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