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Pekin - Paris 1907



 
 
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Old September 30th 08, 01:11 AM posted to uk.rec.cars.maintenance
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Default Pekin - Paris 1907

First half of the book now up...
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f...960a 7da751ae
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Old September 30th 08, 12:25 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.maintenance
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Default Pekin - Paris 1907


"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
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First half of the book now up...
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f...960a 7da751ae
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Interesting, thanks.
Whilst camping in France in 2005 we met Rob Spijker, a descendent of the
Spyker family who had just taken part in the re-run of the Pekin - Paris
rally.

Details of the ABC documentary of the 2005 re-run can be found here.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/pekingtoparis/default.htm



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Old September 30th 08, 05:34 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.maintenance
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Default Pekin - Paris 1907

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "OG"
saying something like:

Details of the ABC documentary of the 2005 re-run can be found here.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/pekingtoparis/default.htm


Thanks for that pointer. Must find a torrent of it now.

later
Hohum, there was a torrent of the ABC prog, but it's fairly dead at the
moment.

That's the closest, indeed, near enough identical to the original, with
the exception of the Contal actually making it in the re-run by the
looks of it. From what I can see on the net all sort of eejits jumped on
the re-run bandwagon with utterly inappropriate cars.

googles

Fer gawd's sake, they're still going to be at it in 2010...
http://www.pekingparis.com/features.html
What's the bloody point.
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Old October 10th 08, 02:13 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.maintenance,uk.rec.cars.misc
Grimly Curmudgeon
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Default Pekin - Paris 1907 video of re-run

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Grimly Curmudgeon
saying something like:

Found a torrent of the Australian BroadCorpo 2005 re-run of the event,
which was probably the closest in spirit and size to the original event.

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/5...is?tab=summary
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Dave
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