Scrappage Scheme Survivors
Chris Hodkin
Tom Gardner
We are Chris and Tom
We met up around 5 years ago due to a mutual interest in boating, wakeboarding in particular. We bought a boat together and got to know each other quite well whilst drifting around offshore frantically signalling to be rescued.
I recently completed a banger rally from St Austell to Monaco in a £180 Peugeot 205. Not satisfied with the sucessful run I decided to look for something more likely to result in tragedy. The Dakhla Challenge seemed like the logical choice!
Despite wanting to take the Pug 205, my co-driver Tom was determined to take no part in the rally unless we grafted a lorry turbo into the pug to make it outpace tectonic plate activity.
As luck would have it a friend offered us his Audi 100 Quattro 2.8 V6 for scrap value (£200). Despite a lonely cliff top existence, being used as an anchor to keep a shed roof on for four years, the car seems to have enough unrotted metal left for a final expedition.
We hope to plug the coolant leaks and patch up the rust to transform the Audi into a desert wolf. If all else fails it's back to the glacial 205!
Can't wait to meet you all and have alot of fun and tears lost in the middle of nowhere.
UPDATE
Tom may not be able to come. If you were watching the news a few weeks ago you may have seen a bad fire in Credition. One of those was Toms house!
Since Tom was buying the Audi and may now not be able to make it (rebuilding house at the moment).
I've switched to offroad prepping the Pug 205. Added homemade spring spacers which instantly knackered the CV boots but gave it a 50mm lift. Got some big tyres which will require large lumps of the suspension angle grinding away and most likely the wheel arches will need enlarging with a sledghammer or more grinding, but will give another 50mm hike in ground clearance. This can only end well.
Screwed a 3mm thick steel bash plate to the uderside which due to the extra weight and bulk has knocked 50mm back off the ground clearance, heyho.
