Event Coverage Peking to Paris in a Flathead 40 Ford!!

Saw this last year in the Daily Telegraph(UK) getting ready for this years event(Happens every 3 years) Its an 8000 miles road trip!! Some nice video & pix to go with it.They've only just started!! You can get reports on Twitter @pekingparis2013.
Here's the newspaper link:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/a...-Paris-classic-car-rally-2013-the-latest.html

 

I'll be following this one. Thanks......

 

Talk about taking a road less traveled. Wow.

 

i like the tires.... anyway what a trip

 

I'd love to do something like that... and should I win the lottery I'll be there! I wonder what kind of fuel you have to tune / build your engine for? Lowest common denominator would be? Gary

 

Wow!

 

Wonder why the link won't work for me?

 

That should be quite a journey!

 

Very cool!

 

Interesting trunk cover. Is there a build sheet on the car??

 

i built some seats for a guy from australia who has entered a 27 vauxhall, very expensive race to enter

 

Mate of mine just did Amsterdam - Peking in a Citroen 2CV ( ugly duckling ) Once in China they had to carry a customs officer for the rest of the trip and even pay his hotel and food. Also lots of corrupt cops out that way.

 

That beats any road trip I could think of!
Thanks for the info!
TP

 

Thanks for post. a few years ago a friend of mine was offered the opportunity to be a mechanic on one of the cars doing this rally. he turned it down. just getting to China was too much for him to think of, much less the long road trip.

 

Here's a link to some build pix & other info. http://peking2paris2013.com/car/ You can get regular updates on Twitter. Sad to report that a British woman was killed in a car crash driving a 70 Chevy pu during the rally. The 40 is still going, had lots of problems with the V8,but she soldiers on!!

 

One more thing to add to the bucket list.

 

More pics http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/a...ssic-car-rally-in-pictures.html?frame=2586512

 

a drive of a lifetime!
who cares if you win!

 

Damn!! I was in Beijing when this thing kicked off a few weeks ago - I didn't know anything about it otherwise I woulda been all over it!!
Damn my luck!
Ah well, good luck to all competitors - safe journey. (though I read in a recent news report that a British competitor has been killed in a traffic accident. I just hope that's a mistake)
Cheers.

 

I was told that a female participant driving a '70 Chevy PU was killed in a head on crash in Russia. driver of other vehicle fell asleep at the wheel of his VW.

 

go to sight listed above

 

Hope they got snacks!!

 

best of luck.....

 

Hope you took a lot of toilet paper...My buddy did this trip in a `50 shoebox a few years ago and said a reliable car and toilet paper were the two most important items to have.

 

The rally has a week to go!! 'Shiner' the coupe is still going really strong, by reports!! Check out the blogs on twitter & facebook(Peking2Paris2013),they're updated daily! Here's Michelle sorting out the brakes,in Kosice,Slovakia!

 

Cool!

 

'Shiner' driven by Michelle Chan & Mike Reeves completed the rally Saturday in Paris!They were 3rd overall,2nd in their class!! Lots of ups & downs,& they'd do it all again,straight away!!Here they are in Paris....

 

nolly - Thanks so much for this thread, and final photo. Michelle & Mike did extremely good considering what they went through

 

Give Shiner a bath, use the next year to make improvements and go at it again with flat head power next year. This is pretty impressive.

Congratulations to Michelle & Mike & their whole team.

 

There's a keeper. God bless the free spirit who is able to do this. Cool!