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Best car for a 20,000 road trip? A TVR, apparently


Peter C

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Always gets me where these people get the money from for stuff like this or what do they say to their boss??

Cheaper to fuel a car almost anywhere other than in the UK, cheaper garage rates almost anywhere other than the UK, possibly less chance of people just driving by while your head's under the bonnet?

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I venture to suggest that if anyone worked at two jobs for a year they could probably finance a 6/7 month jaunt in a dubious British sports car.   Not suggesting that's what he did but it is a way.   Fair play to that man, a refreshing change from all the "charidee" stuff - this bloke just seems to have done it for a crack.   On his tod.

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I venture to suggest that if anyone worked at two jobs for a year they could probably finance a 6/7 month jaunt in a dubious British sports car. Not suggesting that's what he did but it is a way. Fair play to that man, a refreshing change from all the "charidee" stuff - this bloke just seems to have done it for a crack. On his tod.

This exactly, working bloody hard and not spending has worked for me in the past. I'm going to Australia/ New Zealand/ travelling for a year/ again/ a bit know anybody who will give me a job? was how I broke the news to my employers

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Always gets me where these people get the money from for stuff like this or what do they say to their boss??

Why, though?

 

Yeah, he might be a rich boy - but it's just as likely he's an ordinary bloke who saved for years to finance it.

 

Chimaeras aren't that expensive if you live on beans and put money away for a few years. Depends on your circumstances. I couldn't do it, for example.

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Quite an adventure, a little in the spirit of some earlier ones, like Ben Carlin who circumnavigated the globe in WW2 amphibious Jeep including 11,000 miles across open ocean, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin. Absolutely stone mad.

 

Also Gunther Wathorf, who drove through 177 countries covering 550,000 miles over 26 years in a Merc G  Wagen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8703/index.html

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Quite an adventure, a little in the spirit of some earlier ones, like Ben Carlin who circumnavigated the globe in WW2 amphibious Jeep including 11,000 miles across open ocean, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin. Absolutely stone mad.

 

Also Gunther Wathorf, who drove through 177 countries covering 550,000 miles over 26 years in a Merc ML. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8703/index.html

 

Quite interesting reading the Jeep story, it includes changing the head gasket at sea!

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Quite interesting reading the Jeep story, it includes changing the head gasket at sea!

Yes, I have an original 50's copy of Half-Safe he wrote in England while trying to raise the funds to continue around the world. I would like a copy of his second book but the Aussie school that has new copies weren't helpful about international payment 

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I've read the book of Ben's original drive, when he took a £1000, under-prepared 944 from London to Cape Town. He definitely isn't a rich kid. If anything he deserves to be on here.

 

He's also driven a Fiat 127 to the North Pole and a (classic) Mini to Mongolia. All minimal budget stuff.

 

Apparently he works flat out doing shifts in IT for 18 months, then jacks it in for his next adventure.

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