A Cautionary True Flush Unopen Driving From One Side Of The Continent To Another... The Things That Went Wrong Are Various Also Equally Astounding.... Here's Peter Also Equally 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 inward add-on to 4 Toyota Landcruisers started this 7000 kilometre rally on the 12th of July.
The 2nd 300 km of endless washboard route across the savanna type terrain to the border of Brazil wreaked havoc on our cars. The constant vibration cracked 1 of the brake lines of our cerise Volvo Amazon.
We decided to go on the inward determination xxx km to brand Brazil with lone our handbrake.
Sadly this was non our inward determination mechanical breakdown for that day; later on lone 5 km we lost ignition. After three hours of waiting inwards the blistering sun, eaten alive on by times a whole array of bugs, the mechanic team live caught upwards with us, inward add-on to concluded that they had to tow us.
Towing a machine with no brakes on an unpaved route price us 5 towlines.
On our way to Manaus our machine took a hard hitting when we were unable to evade 1 of the many big holes inwards the road. This resulted inwards the entire engine block moving forwards inwards its safe mounts inward add-on to tedious a human human foot wide hole inwards the radiator.
(in a grouping of over ii dozen cars, of the same manufacturer, which was an organized inward add-on to planned trial with almost a twelvemonth of prep... why non teach everyone to displace the same machine model twelvemonth inward add-on to thence spare parts are interchangeable inward add-on to EVERYONE tin sack function the same furnish of the spares? Too obvious? Just me?) (I'll alive on damned if I testament e'er displace to a greater extent than or less the jungle with dozens of people, no ii having interchangeable parts, but everyone drives a VW for example, hell no. Everyone drives a mid 60s bug, or everyone drives another thing that is known to a greater extent than or less the the basis for beingness made by times the millions, with spare parts cheap inward add-on to dull to uncovering inwards every country)
Enroute to Chapada dos Guimares we suffered another mechanical breakdown. This 4th dimension it was our quaternary gear that broke. We had no other option than to consummate the twenty-four hr menses inwards third gear."
https://www.hagerty.com/yourstories/2016/10/22/Transamazonica20161022090603
Why function a Volvo Amazon? It's got a proven rails record:
Not lone did an Amazon win the Shell 4000 twice, inwards 1964 inward add-on to 1965, it also lays claim to three cast wins, a infinitesimal overall finish, a third overall consummate inward add-on to ii quaternary overall finishes. "After a warm welcome at the Dutch Embassy inwards Paramaribo 27 classic Volvo’s inward add-on to 4 Toyota Landcruisers started this 7000 kilometre rally on the 12th of July.
The 2nd 300 km of endless washboard route across the savanna type terrain to the border of Brazil wreaked havoc on our cars. The constant vibration cracked 1 of the brake lines of our cerise Volvo Amazon.
We decided to go on the inward determination xxx km to brand Brazil with lone our handbrake.
Sadly this was non our inward determination mechanical breakdown for that day; later on lone 5 km we lost ignition. After three hours of waiting inwards the blistering sun, eaten alive on by times a whole array of bugs, the mechanic team live caught upwards with us, inward add-on to concluded that they had to tow us.
Towing a machine with no brakes on an unpaved route price us 5 towlines.
On our way to Manaus our machine took a hard hitting when we were unable to evade 1 of the many big holes inwards the road. This resulted inwards the entire engine block moving forwards inwards its safe mounts inward add-on to tedious a human human foot wide hole inwards the radiator.
(in a grouping of over ii dozen cars, of the same manufacturer, which was an organized inward add-on to planned trial with almost a twelvemonth of prep... why non teach everyone to displace the same machine model twelvemonth inward add-on to thence spare parts are interchangeable inward add-on to EVERYONE tin sack function the same furnish of the spares? Too obvious? Just me?) (I'll alive on damned if I testament e'er displace to a greater extent than or less the jungle with dozens of people, no ii having interchangeable parts, but everyone drives a VW for example, hell no. Everyone drives a mid 60s bug, or everyone drives another thing that is known to a greater extent than or less the the basis for beingness made by times the millions, with spare parts cheap inward add-on to dull to uncovering inwards every country)
Enroute to Chapada dos Guimares we suffered another mechanical breakdown. This 4th dimension it was our quaternary gear that broke. We had no other option than to consummate the twenty-four hr menses inwards third gear."
https://www.hagerty.com/yourstories/2016/10/22/Transamazonica20161022090603
Why function a Volvo Amazon? It's got a proven rails record:
On meridian of that, the Volvo 122’s other race or title wins include Swedish Saloon Car Championship (1960, 1961),
Swedish Ice Championship (1961),
High 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)
inward add-on to the New Caledonia Safari Rally (1967).
http://www.retroturbo.com/?p=742 has a center listing of all the Amazon’s other many podiums inward add-on to cast wins.
http://traveldriverace.com/2015/volvo-amazon-perfect-rally-car-canada-5000/
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