In 2009 Dad and I completed 'Touareg Trail, The Hardcore Edition' and were crowned 'Most Hardcore Team at the finish! Check out ore 2009 blog: http://www.norfolk2benin.blogspot.com/


This year we will return!!!

The routes are mainly off road and in 2 parts...

Part 1: The Dakar Challenge: Starts in France and meanders across the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the deserts of Mauritania to the legendary capital of Senegal: Dakar.

Part 2: Raid Afrique: From Senegal we travel via savanna and jungle routes of Mali, on to Burkina Faso and Togo to the white sandy beaches of the tropics in Benin. Twenty 2cvs are due to participate with only the minimum of support.

"Amazingly behind the steering wheels of these cars are not professional rally drivers, not Paris-Dakar drivers nor racing fanatics but ordinary people with one thing in common, an absolute passion for adventure in its purest form."

You can read more about the adventure(s) on the organisations official website: www.touareg-trail.be


Last time we raised £1,500 for the charity Unicef, this time we want to do it again but for Parkinsons UK. So we need your support, please dig deep and sponsor us to help this fantastic charity. Simply visit or webpage: http://www.justgiving.com/2cvAfrica

Saturday 6 October 2012

This time next week...

.....It will be day 1 of our big African adventure! and yes, you guessed it, we are still not quite ready! But we are positive in our minds and spirits and all 3 of us will be ready and eager to go when the big day comes!

Over the last few months we have been really busy preparing Laura (Our off road 2cv) seeking sponsors and raising money for charity and I can now report positive updates on all 3

The charity we chose to support this year is Parkinson's UK. A very close friend of ours went through a real tough time when her father became ill with the condition and unfortunately passed away earlier this year. Its a difficult condition to live with and around and hopefully our support will help others.
We have now reached the 100% mark of our target and the figure is still rising! I cant thank everyone enough for their generosity! Love y'all!! x
www.justgiving.com/2cvafrica

I'm really pleased with our sponsorship support this year, although I received many declines from various companies we have some great support on board. Our main sponsor is one more Autotest with Bosch Car Service. http://www.autotest.boschauto.co.uk/AUTOTEST/Home We are so proud to have this main sponsor and I'm sure, as before, we will blowing kisses back to you guys in the UK when we are using the spare parts you provided!! (hopefully not always from flat tyres!)
We also have: Mobil Oils, Airways Tyres, Vredestein, Threeways Garage Shipdham, Damaco Race Engines, NDB Autos Norwich, Matts Soft Tops, Rudolf Import and Export, Parnham Engineering, Silly 2cv's, Vintage Tyres, G-Signs & Hudson Signs....

We have made some changes to Laura ready for this adventure but nothing too extreme. We re-conditioned the gearbox, and her engine has lots of nice new parts. We have re-enforced the back arms (only the front we re-enforced last time) we have re-enforced a few more areas of the chassis and changed the skid plate under the car for a lighter 'un-dented' version! We have overhauled the dashboard and added some more gauges to monitor the engine. We also changed the seats back to standard 2cv seats as they will double up as camp chairs and are lighter! (took some persuading to get Dad to agree to this though! - hope they work well!!!!)
Her look from the outside has also not changed much although she does have a different roof and bonnet, the reason for the new bonnet is because we needed a larger hole in it to accommodate her NEW tyres....yep that's right we have shiny new Vredestein tyres all round so my fingers are crossed real tight for much less than 21 punctures this year! :)

Here are a few pics of the strip down / rebuild...

 Let the strip down commence...!

 Yay! These heavy seats are history :)


 Hang in there Laura!

 Brrrr..... not much chassis work done on this day

 Still red African dust everywhere!!

 Floor painted and new dashboard started. (and possible extra fuel capacity idea)





New bonnet ready to be painted and 'stickered'  :D
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