We did so when we were young ...

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John Tanner and Andy Watt don't do this any more to their 1904 Berliet which celebrated its 100th birthday during the recent London-Brighton Run. Yet they did when the car was still young, when it was only 90 years old....
John writes: "2000 metres up in the mountains in January without a windscreen - the crash helmets were used to keep the cold off our faces! Would you believe that we do this for fun (well, we used to!!!) When the car didn't seem to be going too well one day, we found the one and only problem that we had on the event: one of the brake linkages covered in ice, and frozen while the brakes were on! Secret revealed by the smoke and smell of hot brakes, not normal at 2000 metres before we started the descent! General impression was that the car did better than the crew.., bravo Mr Berliet."
(more about Berliet - in French - at 'FondationBerliet.org')
(photo by anonymous photographer, courtesy FatSpark MagnetoRepair)
The 2005 edition of Patrick Zaniroli's 'Rally Neige & Glace' will be
from 22 untill 25 February

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