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shorty
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PostPosted: 10:42 - 28 May 2009    Post subject: Marbellas to the Arctic - Charity Drive Reply with quote

Hi All,

Hope no-one minds me posting this as it is car related - albeit the lowest powered vehicle I have ever owned!

I am part of a group of six people who will be driving two SEAT Marbellas (think Mark 1 Fiat Pandas but with less power) from Southampton to a point inside the Arctic circle in Norway - via Marbella (well it would be rude not to!) in aid of the charity DebRA.

The details can be found here.
There is also a justgiving page and Facebook group.

It is for an extremely good cause, raising awareness about a condition that is far more common than a lot of people (me included before I got involved in this) realise.

If you can spare the time please have a look at some of the websites and sponsor us.

Thanks for reading!

Shorty
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PostPosted: 11:37 - 15 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just so you have some idea of the scale of this adventure, this is one of the cars (the newer one!) as I've just picked it up!

https://www.shorty.eclipse.co.uk/red-un-1.jpg

https://www.shorty.eclipse.co.uk/red-un-2.jpg

and this is the route...

https://www.shorty.eclipse.co.uk/route.jpg

That's about 7000 miles in 16 days!

Cheers,

Shorty
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PostPosted: 12:59 - 02 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quick update - we arrived back in the UK on Monday having done the round trip in 10 days and the Marbella to the arctic circle leg in 4 days and 21 hours. The cars performed admirably and made it with no breakdowns!!
Pics to prove it...

https://www.shorty.eclipse.co.uk/circle1.jpg

https://www.shorty.eclipse.co.uk/circle2.jpg

https://www.shorty.eclipse.co.uk/circle3.jpg

Up 'til now we have raised about £4k

Cheers,

Shorty
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PostPosted: 13:14 - 02 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice one. Some good roads in Norway I imagine?
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PostPosted: 13:22 - 02 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dom wrote:
Nice one. Some good roads in Norway I imagine?


Oh yeah, hell they were fun in that car! I will have to make an effort to go back on the bike!
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