Have a look where went on the Landy/BOFA 4x4 Rally 2008.....

As a lot of people know I had www.3arc.com sponsor me for this event in the way of a GPS Tracker Unit being put onto my Pajero......

If you would like to see where the rally took us, click onto WWW.TEAMTAFF.CO.UK then click on 'PHOTO GALLERY' (which is on the left hand side).

You will see that one of the albums is a screen shot of where we went of this year's rally (The Overall Route, Day 1, Day2, and so on).

I have also uploaded a majority of our pictures onto the Photo Gallery too.....I will be sorting them out by Day 1, Day 2, etc, in the near future, but in the mean time feel free to have a look

What's this I hear of people not wanting to play at Val d'Isere?

I was so gutted, turns out I have a big problem with my NSF CV joint, which meant I couldnt play....was not happy

shame

was by far the most spectacular location on the trip once again and the best off-road site in europe
there where beavors running wild, ( is that what they were adam? )

you missed a real treat

tpb4x4 wrote:

I was so gutted, turns out I have a big problem with my NSF CV joint, which meant I couldnt play....was not happy

Couldn't you have taken the front propshaft out and played anyway?

No

Keith

evo4x4 wrote:

No

Keith

Oh hello dad I was just in the middle of writing something along the lines of 'I dont think my dad would wanna get under and do that!' - hahaha

the convoy that got to the gate and turned around missed out on so much, i know the bbq wasnt there as in the 07 rally but we managed to rustle up some food and Team Monstar went for a climb up to 2800m to the top of the ski slopes and look into the next valley and the views were incredible, flippin freezing aswell but the guy who runs the site took us up there in his bog standard disco.

For all those who were left behind andybloke and Jon, dispite all the break downs and issues we made it...

As Andybloke says you don't really need two. I lost my front shaft on day one and still managed most of Val D'Isere. However there was a price to pay after Stelvio when a trailing arm separated from the back axle. So perhaps it wasn't such a wise decision but even this turned out to be a great experience. I managed to meet the local cheif of snowploughs who took Lenny to his workshop, turfed out the biggest sonwplough in Austria to make room over the pit so he could weld everything back together. All this at 10:00 at night and for the price of two cans of lager.

Just another of life rich experiences !!!

Keith - Didn't know a convoy turned around at the gate. All ours - the Get Lost Crew - made it to the 2800mtr ski lift marked 'Picnic Area' which wasn't! That's where where the clicking started F/N/S. We starburst from there to play and then regrouped

Keith

Having watched the proceedings of removing the propshaft from Lenny at the side of the motorway I can understand why Keith (evo 4x4) really didn't want to touch his prop shaft at Val d'isere.

Hopefully we'll get the new UJ fitted tomorrow in time for Abingdon.

not sure for the real name of these little critters Kieran, but we were led to beleive that we should call them beavers, and as you rightly stated we saw plenty of beaver in them there hill, love kym

there certainly was,



LUCOFLAP the bottle is still there

the Mitsi canny be driver with a prop missing.
Technically that is.
Once ye remove the prop ther aint owt to keep the oil in the tranny box.

diferent set up from the landies.

Marmots! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot will explain all.

Now on his laptop, Badger has a decent couple of 'beaver' photos I took at the Gavia Pass. One with zoom one without, the difference is incredible. I'll ask him to post them on here.

Tom Mc wrote:

Marmots!

Dr Evil took a group photo of us around a marmot last year ...

We still refer to it as a beaver, as "Gratuitous Marmot Shot" doesn't have the same ring to it.

long live luco-flap.......
and anyone who knows what im talking about will know what a laugh we had xx