WHAT?!
In late September 2005, MSportUK.com sent a team of hapless
editorial staff on the "team-building exercise" to end all
others. 1,500 miles over four days through Europe in a car costing £100
or less. Well, they were the rules of the Staples2Naples
banger rally. Not only was the challenge met, the final trip saw £25-worth
of Volvo 440, covering 3,600 miles, returning home nine days after the
initial departure. Supported on the trip by the might of Kerrang Radio,
the team arrived back suburnt, deaf, and just a little worse for wear.
This is their story...
DIARY
It's still a bit of a blur, but we were fortunate enough
to have a notebook with us to jot the highlights of our tour from the
UK, through France and Swtizerland into Italy, and back via Monte Carlo,
Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium and France. God bless the SeaCat.
Read full
account
ROUTE
Our adventure took in the Staples2Naples Banger Rally
from Calais to Naples, but we came back, the long way.
See full route map
PHOTOS
A picture speaks a thousand words. Good job, or we'd
be here all day...
Staples2Naples Rally 2005
Photography by and Copyright
of D. Stokes
     
See all images from this
event
CAR SPECIFICATION
Our trusty steed for this epic adventure was a Volvo 440
GLE (injection). A red one.
See first engineering
report
LINKS
We didn't go alone, that would be stupid. These crazy
folk were also up to a similar sort of mischief, at least for the first
1500 miles...
MSportUK wholeheartedly supports the idea
of driving across Europe to random unspecified destinations. We'd
like
to cover ourselves by
actively discouraging speeding, "driving like Italians",
playing the "fake steering wheel" game, or intentionally
driving into other cars on your event. None of which we did. At all.
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