Welcome to Team on-board-video.com T10835 Dakar Challenge Entry for Jan 8th 2010

Welcome to our Dakar Challenge site, part fo our main site www.on-board-video.com.  We have set up this small site to tell you about our plymouth Dakar Challenge, who we are why we are doing it and how we are doing.

So let me introduce my self. My name is Gez   I am part of team on-board-video.com and will be taking part in the event. My partner in Grime and team mate is Dave.

So how did we come about deciding to do the event. Well it began a few months ago, I had broken down on my way to a  job in anglesey and lucky for me it was 100 miles into my trip and on Daves doorstep.

Well we sat around waiting for the rac and joked about lucky it was only 100 miles away good job it wasnt further to which I commented “yes on the way to Dakar would have been a bugger”  and we both laughed. We had both heard of the event and as we have a strange sense of humour seen the funny side.

Well that got us Talking and we visited the website to see when the next event was on www.plymouth-dakar.co.uk  well  we could just about get a late entry in and decided it would be a good experience and to do the event for charity would be even better.

Over the years I have lost a few members of family to Cancer as has dave so we decided to make cancer research our chosen charity.

Hey ho (  Dave is AKA Grump Dwarf ) were off to Dakar well eventually we will be,  forms filled in and emailed and a quick acceptance from julian at event H.Q ,  but Only if we could find a car that fell into the rules of the event.  it had to be left hand drive and cost us less than £100  and we were not allowed to spend more than £15 gettign the car ready.

Tough challenge I hear you say , and you would be right as well. We searched ebay, autotrader and lots fo other classifieds, when we came up with our little gem of a car a 1989 left hand drive VW polo Coupe mot till march and 79 thousand miles with history. Ok whats wrong with it i see your thinking. well not a great deal a few minor bits and bobs that we can do and a paint job. Luckily dave can paint ( Well last job he did for me took him 2 years , it was embarrasing driving a half painted car ) so fingers crossed . and that is where our adventure begins , see it here in all its detail with photos , video and more as it happens  Oh and please donate its a good cause and we need your  support.

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