Across Africa. In a Porsche...

Across Africa. In a Porsche...

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jamieo

180 posts

211 months

Monday 29th March 2010
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Fantastic smile

graemel

7,017 posts

216 months

Monday 29th March 2010
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Ben, I'd race any car at any speed at any circuit in the world that you would care to mention, but I have not got the b*lls to do what you did. I doff my cap smile

fivetenben

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589 posts

169 months

Tuesday 30th March 2010
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graemel said:
Ben, I'd race any car at any speed at any circuit in the world that you would care to mention, but I have not got the b*lls to do what you did. I doff my cap smile
Thanks, that made me smile.

Its horses for courses I suppose. I found throwing the Porsche round the Nurburgring considerably more nerve-racking than crossing Africa in it.
The only properly scary bit of the trip was getting robbed at knifepoint in Cape Town - and that was only scary in hindsight, as I was far too drunk to care at the time. smile

Ben (with a slight change of name...)

hondansx

4,562 posts

224 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Great stuff; well done! Going to read the blog tonight.

I was at Spa a few weeks back talking to an old chap who does similar trips every year in his XK 120 (despite being as useless as i am with the mechanical side of things). Very inspirational!

FalconWood

1,356 posts

196 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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Wow. That was brilliant. Going through all those border posts and hoping you would find service and repair places for the Porsche - brave journey well done. Those wet roads looked fun! Did you bring the car home or leave it in SA?

dvenman

219 posts

114 months

Monday 16th March 2015
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I bought the book because I'd read about the trip in a Porsche magazine. The car was driven from Cape Town to Mozambique and eventually sold there for about £300.

(apologies for thread resurrection).

NNH

1,515 posts

131 months

Wednesday 14th December 2016
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Ben
Your book has just arrived from Amazon as an early Christmas present to myself. I'll be dreaming of your African adventures as I try to handle the in-laws fortnight long visit!