18:40 PM
Ok, car spent 4 months at the mechanic shop, and, ok, it is an old car and all – but breaking down after 100 km? We are stuck along the A4, party in Milan has already started and we are trying to figure out what to do with a broken accelerator cable.
Yesterday we spent quite a bit of time getting together a small phrase book in Russian for emergency like this. Quite useless if you are just outside Bergamo.
Loris is working his magic with some sticky tape, will it work?
[after 15 minuted and two roasted hands]
Tape and wire did the trick! One for Loris, zero for R4.
1:00 AM
Met with part of the Italian teams – all driving Pandas – in Milan. Fun night, lot of drinks, lots of encouraging/discouraging words.
Ok, car spent 4 months at the mechanic shop, and, ok, it is an old car and all – but breaking down after 100 km? We are stuck along the A4, party in Milan has already started and we are trying to figure out what to do with a broken accelerator cable.
Yesterday we spent quite a bit of time getting together a small phrase book in Russian for emergency like this. Quite useless if you are just outside Bergamo.
Loris is working his magic with some sticky tape, will it work?
[after 15 minuted and two roasted hands]
Tape and wire did the trick! One for Loris, zero for R4.
1:00 AM
Met with part of the Italian teams – all driving Pandas – in Milan. Fun night, lot of drinks, lots of encouraging/discouraging words.
3:00 AM
Cable broke again, this time on the highway to Como. No way to fix it, had to resort to call the Automobile Club. Tried to get the car started until 5 am, but nothing to do, left it in the good hands on Mr. Alessandro, who promised to deliver it back by 3 pm today, just in time for departure.
Cable broke again, this time on the highway to Como. No way to fix it, had to resort to call the Automobile Club. Tried to get the car started until 5 am, but nothing to do, left it in the good hands on Mr. Alessandro, who promised to deliver it back by 3 pm today, just in time for departure.
Loris 1 - R4 1
1 commento:
Ciao, Dino!
Un saluto anche al tuo compagno di viaggio Loris.
Mi dispiace per la rottura del cavo, da speriamo che siano le prime e le ultime rogne. Auguri di buon viaggio e in bocca al lupo!
Seguirò la vostra avventura.
Ciao ciao, Alessandro P.
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