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| Our first sight of Percy..... |
Now people laughed at Percy when we got him. But their jaws dropped in awe when he crossed the finish line after passing through 9 countries over 33 days on the road. And all without even a single puncture! Here’s some choice pics of the lil’ fella from when we got him, to when he arrived in UB, a red, hard as nails, Mongol Rally conquerer!
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| Ready to rock and roll, the day before departure |
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| Somewhere between Olgii & Khovd, Mongolia |
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| A last look. 3am outside the finish line bar in UB. Day 37 after launch. |
If you are reading this as a bit of prep for your own tilt at the Rally, we'd like to ask a favour. Should you make it to UB and you spot a red Perodua zooming about the Mongolian capital, we'd desperately love to hear from you. If you can supply a pic, we'll even try & rustle up some sort of award.
Some pics of the sort of stuff we did to prep our little Prodder for crushing continents can be found HERE. Also, here's a review of the Nippa from the old, original 'Top Gear' show.....
Also, during our prep we were sent a link (sadly no longer active) from MSN Cars. It was titled 'Seven Cars that Deserve to be Scrapped' and included the Nippa. It was written by a fella called James Ruppert who also does a site called 'Bangernomics' which espouses the joy of cheap & cheerful cars, so we thought he ought to know better, as well as "We'll show him!". Upon his return, Dan sent Mr Ruppert an email presenting evidence as to why he was quite simply wrong and Percy got one last moment of glory, being featured on the 'Readers Rides' page of the Bangernomics site HERE. He also sent us a certificate! Check out the 'Things' section to take a look.
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| Even the Adventurists had to confess they're awesome. |
Having lived with Percy over 6 months before the rally and those 7561 miles on the road, Dan somewhat understandably got attached to our little red monster and to this day is a fully paid up member of the "Perodua's are fucking ACE!" club. So much so, Mr Joolz at the Adventurists invited him to pen a little article explaining why they are indeed so fucking ace. You can have a read of Mr Taylor's sound, well thought out argument HERE.
