How to start a short and uninteresting blog entry? Well, this seems to be started so that's one thing less to consider.
Owing to the broken hand bone a little while back, not a great deal has succesfully been achieved on the actual manual doing things front. Having said that, I have been down to Sextons to book the car in for a little musical assistance and they're as good as their word and sorting out the amp for me on Tuesday. I still haven't had a response back from Dragon car audio so I'm assuming he is either incredibly busy, a lottery winner no longer in need of work or advertising, or dead. I like to think of his demise as that would explain the complete lack of communication and common courtesy if he simply changed his mind about doing the work.
I have emailed another couple of sponsors to try and get them on board, I reckon one of them should be a go-er.
PM Electrical systems has substantially boosted the funding with a donation of £100 which has secured very prominent placement for him and his company on the car once the graphics get finalised.
We're still waiting on the main grovel graphics (the ones with "sponsor this car from £20", "Raising money for dreams come true" etc...) but there was a little set back a few days ago when I received an email from Ed at scumrun. In the email, he has broken down where the event sponsors would like to be placed and what we need to leave empty for the general scumrun stuff. It appears that the doors need to be left alone so thats a tiny inconvenience, but the biggy is that the top of the windscreen will have http://www.scumrun.com/ on it. for those of you who have been following this blog, you'll note that at present there is a gorgeous Team Floppy Throttle emblazoned there. Bugger.
Also in the email, we've been advised that the initial ferry route will be disclosed this week. This could be any port in the UK and if we're leaving from the south coast, thats good for us. Means that the convertible will be pointing at southern Europe on a 3,000 mile sun tour. If we're going from Harwich or Newcastle however, then the car with no roof lining and a heater that occasionally sucks a mint and blows at you, will be pointing proper North to start the journey. I mean snowy / Icy north. Please let us be leaving from Dover or Portsmouth. I will update as soon as we know.
The problem with this rally is we dont know where we are going to end each day until the start of that day. So we cant even work out routes in advance and the sat nav is a North American one, which has been reprogrammed to cover some of Europe and we got it from a guy in China but instructions are all in funny symbols and it speaks only Cantonese. The sensible option would be to use a different one, but I think that using the TongTong will just add to the enjoyment.
Another mini issue we had is that Gruff has left the employment of Alan Knight Transport. This unfortunately means we have probably lost a large sponsor. On the up-side, it means there is more space for YOU to advertise on the car.
I've still not got my phone back from O2 having taken it in for repair, but they have courteously lent me one at a deposit cost of £25. This deposit is presumably to go towards either the cost of replacement should I damage it or as a security measure to ensure I return it rather than keep it and leave them with my iPhone. I'd like to take a moment right now for you to consider this. Either the loan phone is worth a £25 excess towards the insurance claim of repairing said item, or, it's market value must be equal to or greater than a 3 month old iPhone + £25. You're wondering why I'm going this much into detail aren't you? Because I'm not a happy chappy. I was expecting maybe another iPhone, maybe the Dell Streak, or I would have settled for an HTC as I'm still paying full whack for my contract.
What I actually have as a replacement for my phone was created in 2002. Retro Chic I believe would be the politically correct term to described this piece of shite:
Gorgeous isn't it?
Anyway, what this means is all my notes etc for the rally, pics etc have gone. never to return. I have had to use a thing called a "Cam - eeee - rah" whatever one of them is. very old school. doesnt send texts or surf the net or anything apart from pictures. Bizarre.
Obviously I have been a little slack on doing stuff but I have managed to get 2 of the alloys rubbed down, primed, glossed and lacuered so the drivers side is now looking pretty good:
That's a picture of the firrst alloy, dried and perfect and ready to be de-masked and re-inflated ready to go on the car. It's perfect. Unfortunately, the 2nd one didnt quite manage to stay perfect. Got it prepped, glossed lacquered etc, but my impatience to leave it to dry in the house back fired. I decided that I would put it in the boot of the other car ready to go to the garage to be inflated once dry (saving valuable seconds I know). The problem is that as I lifted the boot up, the wheel fell from where it was balancing and landed shiny side down in the filth and gravel I had parked on. Effectively chipping the bulk of the wheel and now it doesn't look quite as pretty. Hoping I can fix it easily.
I dont think theres much else left to mention, but once we get a departure route, I'll update.
Laters.
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