What happened to our Land Rover after the last road trip?

If you've ever wondered what happens to our car after a rally, what state it is left in and what we have to do to it to prepare it for our next rally, then look no further. Alex has been meticulously documenting what we've had to do to Red, our Land Rover after the Moroccan Road Trip 2010. He has been been maintaining a post on relentlessracing.org which they've recently featured on their front page.






The entire post has been put into a PDF file which you can download from our downloads page!

The Rusty Rhinos' Land Rover - Car preparation

Red, our 1963 Land Rover, was purchased on eBay for a tidy sum of £500, however Red was anything but tidy at the time, it somehow had an MOT on it although it certainly wasn't fit for the road. The amount of effort and time that has gone into preparing Red is not easily described.

Lewis, part of the Rusty Rhinos ground crew, has taken on this effort. Through his involvement in preparing Red for the rallies from day one when purchased in 2008, he is in an excellent position to tell you all about Red and the monumental effort in building this car from practically bare metal.

You can get to the article on the vehicle page of the Rusty Rhinos site.

This is a highly recommended read with some amusing photos.



Here Lewis can be seen willingly and kindly taking on the role of human painting jig.

International Driving Permits arrive

One of those essential items that is needed on our road trips is the International Driving Permit (IDP). We usually get these from the AA as they offer an efficient postal service although you can get them at the post office too.

For Morocco, we need a Convention 1949 IDP, which is the most common type of IDP used around the world.



Our IDPs arrived yesterday and that is another item off of our check list preparations for the Moroccan Rally 2012.