Car 31 - Team Skimbum

Just been looking at Frank/Catherines website http://www.teamskibum.com/

Very useful advice re some of the daily rally routine therein; which I'm sure F & C won't mind me sharing with you!!!!

1. Get up earlier than you want to
2. Realise the time
3. Have a quick splash and teeth brush
4. Realise you're about to miss the window for picking up the first road book of the day
5. Dash off and beg the forgiveness of the loverly Rhiannon (Bora da my lovely!) to get the
aforementioned road book
6. Realise that everyone else is leaving and your asthmatic 300tdi (minus turbo - a short embarrasing
story for another time!) aint gonna catch most of the teams up... and you've still to take the tent
down
7. Dash back to tent and start taking it down
8. Realise you've left your glasses inside the now folded tent
9. Unpack tent
10. Re-pack tent
11. Realise you've folded it wrong and it won't now go into the bag
12. Re-pack tent.... again
13. Find space for tent, beds, chairs, sleeping bags, kip mats, table, two ring cooker with grill, gas bottle,
booze not drunk the night before and other stuff that for some reason is STILL lying scattered around
14. Realise that the sound you can't hear is the sound of ANY other team...!
15. FINALLY get everyone aboard (after the all important loo stop)
16. Realise you've left the road book in the tent....
17. Unpack tent
18. Re-pack tent
19. Throw road book at nagivator
20. Leave campsite
21. Spend a "short time" reaching the end of the day's "adventures"
22. Report to marshalls at campsite, hand in ration packs (Not food... but just as important - Emergency
"This is where we are going" envelopes!)
23. Search for a decent spot in the now well populated campsite that doesn't back onto the
French/Belgian/German loos (The Dutch ones are pretty benign!!)
24. Un-pack equipment
25. Sit down with a well deserved beer... sweat dripping from your proboscis
26. Realise neither of you have eaten... and are actually quite smelly....
27. Think "Sod it!"
28. Take long apreciative pull on aformentioned beer, deciding to deal with it all in the morning!
29. Wake up earlier than you wanted to......etcetera...etcetera...etcetera!!!

And now ladies and gentlemen... you know why we do it... Now would someone please explain it to me?!!

Keith one item you forgot is waiting for your navigator to finish recovering from the night before and after turning many colours of the rainbow

Tent? Tents?

Team M & M are unfamiliar with the concept of tentage. Our understanding is that they are popular amongst other Rally teams as a form of decoration or something to keep them occupied during the evenings and mornings?

Pack and un-pack ............ nah ............ just get up and go ............

Oh yea, those with L ... La ... Lan ... Land ... Landr .................................................... green oval thingies ...........






























REMEMBER TO PACK YOUR SPARES AND TOOLS EACH DAY

nickburt wrote:

Pack and un-pack ............ nah ............ just get up and go ............

Oh yea, those with L ... La ... Lan ... Land ... Landr .................................................... green oval thingies ...........





REMEMBER TO PACK YOUR SPARES AND TOOLS EACH DAY

Oh we will so that we can help the owners of the slitty jap things when they break down

Hmmmm ............. nope, not even close

We use metric tools, so them old Whitworth and AF spanners you'll have boxes full of on board are of no use to our superior vehicles whatsoever.

However, we do carry a few adjustable type tools, which you're welcome to borrow when you need to (daily) when forward motion of a L ... La ... Lan ... Land ... Landr ......... green oval thingy becomes impossible to achive.

We only carry these tools, so that we can be generous in our support of lesser vehicles - but not before the camera has been made extensive use of .....

nickburt wrote:

Hmmmm ............. nope, not even close

We use metric tools, so them old Whitworth and AF spanners you'll have boxes full of on board are of no use to our superior vehicles whatsoever.

However, we do carry a few adjustable type tools, which you're welcome to borrow when you need to (daily) when forward motion of a L ... La ... Lan ... Land ... Landr ......... green oval thingy becomes impossible to achive.

We only carry these tools, so that we can be generous in our support of lesser vehicles - but not before the camera has been made extensive use of .....

Thanks for your kind offer but that won't be necessary

nickburt wrote:

Hmmmm ............. nope, not even close

We use metric tools, so them old Whitworth and AF spanners you'll have boxes full of on board are of no use to our superior vehicles whatsoever.

However, we do carry a few adjustable type tools, which you're welcome to borrow when you need to (daily) when forward motion of a L ... La ... Lan ... Land ... Landr ......... green oval thingy becomes impossible to achive.

We only carry these tools, so that we can be generous in our support of lesser vehicles - but not before the camera has been made extensive use of .....

Well Nick would you like to explain this

Nicks doors are all open to enable him easy access to the large amounts of tools needed to fix the broken Green Oval thingy.

The bonnet is open to show the owner of the said Green Oval thingy what a working engine looks like.

And .............. the only tools in use in that picture was a set of jump leads.

Just to clarify that was because the Mitsu..........thingy would NOT start and needed HELP from a willing Land Rover


Of course witnessed by many cameras!!!!

Please, nobody forget to pack their metric adjustable

Series team wrote:

nickburt wrote:

Hmmmm ............. nope, not even close

We use metric tools, so them old Whitworth and AF spanners you'll have boxes full of on board are of no use to our superior vehicles whatsoever.

However, we do carry a few adjustable type tools, which you're welcome to borrow when you need to (daily) when forward motion of a L ... La ... Lan ... Land ... Landr ......... green oval thingy becomes impossible to achive.

We only carry these tools, so that we can be generous in our support of lesser vehicles - but not before the camera has been made extensive use of .....

Well Nick would you like to explain this

HAHA!!!

I was reading this post thinking, i must dig the picture out of me Jump staring Nicks Motor!

And you beat me to it!!

It will live long in our memories and be used many times in evidence against him

I would exect nothing less.

However, it's not clear from the picture quite who is starting who ..............

maybe not, but we all know the truth