Sponsor Your Queen and Country

BABE Rally 2007 - From BA (Big Apple) to BE (Big Easy), a total drive of 1500 miles in four days on the east coast of the USA, in a banger yank tank that has to cost less than $250.

In a moment of madness, Martini and Gausie have entered a team - "Queen and Country", the entry has been accepted, and so long as we can get all of the prelims in place, at the end of May we'll be setting off from New York with "New Orleans or bust" ringing loudly in our ears.

In case you're wondering, we'll start with Martini as Queen (Gausie will be Cunt-ry) and we'll swap over every now and again.

We'll be raising money for Save The Children, and hopefully, in due course, some of you guys will dig deep.

We're planning on getting a car in late April and flying out a week early to prepare it for the journey - which is at the end of May.

We'll be looking for a car with acres and acres of metal and rust, a decent set of brakes, an engine and gearbox that stands a chance of getting us 1500 miles, and a very loud stereo. We've decided that an open top is mandatory - even if we have to take a cutter to a saloon. A custom paintjob is planned, given sufficient time.

You should contact Top Gear - or a documentary maker to film your exploits!

Maybe The Deddington Chronicle would do an item?

Nice rendition of Hotel California - Eagles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swPWZDoFPXI

Dunno about well read, Gausie, but there's a definite theme. ;-0

Philip
Stunned thanks !
M

Greystone
Al many thanks.

Like all this music must get a cd cut and a ghetto blaster for the trip

Good luck to you both Martini & Gausie. It sounds like a great adventure and is for a very good cause. Only wish I could be there... ;)

"Only wish I could be there"

Yeah, so do I Greystone. :(

I've ridden some of the roads through the mountains that their routes takes and can't wait to get back there. Deal's Gap, with 318 curves in eleven point something miles, on a GoldWing, was brilliant.

A word of advice guys - with the ridiculous speeds most folk travel at, and with a curve on average every fifty yards they can come at you from both directions very quickly and unexpectedly. Much better to stay on your own side of the road and not to try and cut the corners.

Post photos when you get back.

Many thanks to :-

Bullie Cant resist an offer like that!
The Count Watch it :)
Splat - Yes seemed the right thing to do.

All so so generous well over half way now.

M

"I Would Roll 500 Miles" by Peter Kay seems appropriate.

Dil - you'll be pleased to hear we have Men of Harlech and cwm rhondda already loaded up. We need something to play for when the car breaks down.

Still, I find myself loading up the iPod with all of these suggestions, plus a few military marches and an awful lot of Gilbert & Sullivan.

We havent even started looking for a car yet.

I cant help feeling that we may be putting the D'oyly Carte before the horse.

Gausie that is truely aweful - but I like it

Well I'm standing by a river
But the water doesn't flow
It boils with every poison you can think of
And I'm underneath the streetlight
But the light of joy I know
Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows
And the perverted fear of violence
Chokes the smile on every face
And common sense is ringing out the bell
This ain't no technological breakdown
Oh no, this is the road to hell
And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just bits of paper flying away from you
Oh look out world, take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no, this is the road
Said this is the road

This is the road to hell

Thats just about sums up the Severn crossing travelling east.

yes. Monmouthshire is on the wrong side of that river.

Martini - there's a few things here we're going to need.

Latest 'Must Have' auto accessories

Love it must have kit.

I have been doing some practicing for the big one. This Island I am on has no cars so its a moped or walk.

Well rented one for 2 pound sterling a day and its ok in the day time but trying to get back to the beach hut at night, after a lemonade or two and on sand tracks to boot - well I keep falling off.

Nothing serious a sort of veer to the right, wobble and flop on the side. I am losing skin off my forearms and knees and I think they put out a warning on the island now when they see me heading off to bed.

BABE will be a doddle if I can survive this.

M Somewhere in the Anderman Sea.

I see it has all mod cons.

M

Love the returns policy on the flux capacitor: 'May be returned up to 30 days prior to purchase'

hi Martin & Bernie, or may I call you Mike and Bernie - what a great idea this is. Put me down for 100.00. Where should I send it?

Good luck on the trip

J