Rob bought the beige Skoda Favorit in all its OAP chav glory last year. Complete with savage exhaust, mutant sub, 5 spot lights and rally stickers it was deserving of a name to suit and seemed like the obvious choice for this trip.
Tested on a trip to the Isle of Wight, the Skoda can obviously cope with long distances....Having sat in a field for 4 months hibernating over winter, we revived it. After driving a mile, the front brakes nearly caught alight toasting a snail onto the calliper! We perservered and the trusty old car sailed through its MOT.
Since then we have modified Blaze for the trip. Removing the rear seats, servicing the engine, and taking a radiator fan and installing it under the dashboard for that air conditioning effect! We have fashioned some sun blocks out of cardboard and old sheets and painted the wheels blue (to make it go faster!)
We hope to arrive home with the car but pot holes, foreign drivers, 10,000 miles and high temperatures may make this quite a challenge!!
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