New A Cautionary Truthful Storey Close Driving From 1 Side Of The Continent To Another... The Things That Went Incorrect Are Diverse As Well As Astounding.... Here's Peter As Well As His 1966 Volvo Story
inwards a grouping of 27 Volvos, he went through the Amazon jungle enroute to the Brazil Olympics.
"After a warm welcome at the Dutch Embassy inwards Paramaribo 27 classic Volvo’s in addition to 4 Toyota Landcruisers started this 7000 kilometre rally on the twelfth of July.
The 2d 300 km of endless washboard route across the savanna type terrain to the edge of Brazil wreaked havoc on our cars. The constant vibration cracked 1 of the brake lines of our cerise Volvo Amazon.
We decided to proceed the in conclusion xxx km to make Brazil amongst alone our handbrake.
Sadly this was non our in conclusion mechanical breakdown for that day; afterwards alone five km nosotros lost ignition. After 3 hours of waiting inwards the blistering sun, eaten live on past times a whole array of bugs, the mechanic squad finally caught upwards amongst us, in addition to concluded that they had to tow us.
Towing a machine amongst no brakes on an unpaved route terms us five towlines.
On our agency to Manaus our machine took a difficult hitting when nosotros were unable to evade 1 of the many big holes inwards the road. This resulted inwards the entire engine block moving forwards inwards its prophylactic mounts in addition to tedious a human foot broad hole inwards the radiator.
(in a grouping of over 2 dozen cars, of the same manufacturer, which was an organized in addition to planned lawsuit amongst nearly a yr of prep... why non larn everyone to motility the same machine model yr in addition to hence spare parts are interchangeable in addition to EVERYONE tin sack operate the same provide of the spares? Too obvious? Just me?) (I'll live on damned if I volition e'er motility some the jungle amongst dozens of people, no 2 having interchangeable parts, merely everyone drives a VW for example, hell no. Everyone drives a mid 60s bug, or everyone drives some other affair that is known some the the world for existence made past times the millions, amongst spare parts inexpensive in addition to slow to discovery inwards every country)
Enroute to Chapada dos Guimares nosotros suffered some other mechanical breakdown. This fourth dimension it was our quaternary gear that broke. We had no other alternative than to complete the twenty-four hr menstruation inwards tertiary gear."
https://www.hagerty.com/yourstories/2016/10/22/Transamazonica20161022090603
Why operate a Volvo Amazon? It's got a proven rail record:
Not alone did an Amazon win the Shell 4000 twice, inwards 1964 in addition to 1965, it also lays claim to 3 class wins, a minute overall finish, a tertiary overall complete in addition to 2 quaternary overall finishes. "After a warm welcome at the Dutch Embassy inwards Paramaribo 27 classic Volvo’s in addition to 4 Toyota Landcruisers started this 7000 kilometre rally on the twelfth of July.
The 2d 300 km of endless washboard route across the savanna type terrain to the edge of Brazil wreaked havoc on our cars. The constant vibration cracked 1 of the brake lines of our cerise Volvo Amazon.
We decided to proceed the in conclusion xxx km to make Brazil amongst alone our handbrake.
Sadly this was non our in conclusion mechanical breakdown for that day; afterwards alone five km nosotros lost ignition. After 3 hours of waiting inwards the blistering sun, eaten live on past times a whole array of bugs, the mechanic squad finally caught upwards amongst us, in addition to concluded that they had to tow us.
Towing a machine amongst no brakes on an unpaved route terms us five towlines.
On our agency to Manaus our machine took a difficult hitting when nosotros were unable to evade 1 of the many big holes inwards the road. This resulted inwards the entire engine block moving forwards inwards its prophylactic mounts in addition to tedious a human foot broad hole inwards the radiator.
(in a grouping of over 2 dozen cars, of the same manufacturer, which was an organized in addition to planned lawsuit amongst nearly a yr of prep... why non larn everyone to motility the same machine model yr in addition to hence spare parts are interchangeable in addition to EVERYONE tin sack operate the same provide of the spares? Too obvious? Just me?) (I'll live on damned if I volition e'er motility some the jungle amongst dozens of people, no 2 having interchangeable parts, merely everyone drives a VW for example, hell no. Everyone drives a mid 60s bug, or everyone drives some other affair that is known some the the world for existence made past times the millions, amongst spare parts inexpensive in addition to slow to discovery inwards every country)
Enroute to Chapada dos Guimares nosotros suffered some other mechanical breakdown. This fourth dimension it was our quaternary gear that broke. We had no other alternative than to complete the twenty-four hr menstruation inwards tertiary gear."
https://www.hagerty.com/yourstories/2016/10/22/Transamazonica20161022090603
Why operate a Volvo Amazon? It's got a proven rail record:
On tiptop of that, the Volvo 122’s other race or entitle wins include Swedish Saloon Car Championship (1960, 1961),
Swedish Ice Championship (1961),
High German Touring Car Championship (1961),
European Rally Championship (1963),
European Ladies Championship (1963),
RAC European Touring Car Championship (1965),
Acropolis Rally (1965), Syd Rally Sweden (1965)
in addition to the New Caledonia Safari Rally (1967).
http://www.retroturbo.com/?p=742 has a sum listing of all the Amazon’s other many podiums in addition to class wins.
http://traveldriverace.com/2015/volvo-amazon-perfect-rally-car-canada-5000/
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