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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Red Arrows Motoscapers on 14 July 2015, 00:22:04
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Admin Please Delete if not allowed
We are a team of First Great Western Railwaymen taking part in the 2015 Motoscape rally ( http://www.motoscape-rally.co.uk ) in a 15 year old Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6 auto that we bought for £300. Setting off on the 4th September from Dawlish/Exeter to Prauge driving through 12 countries in 7 days.
Our Team Theme is the Royal Airforce Red Arrows we have painted the car Red and plan to decorate the car and wear fancy dress to show this including tail fin. small wings, jet etc with all logos and vinyl writing to mach. We are aiming to have the car ready for a charity football mach on the 16th August 2015 in Exmouth.
We are doing this to raise money towards a new portable scanner for Exmouth Hospital for Prostate cancer (http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=Gadget007) A work colleague who was given the all clear from this disease a few years ago has made it his goal this year to raise and pay the £20,000 for a brand new machine this will reduce the waiting times across South Devon saving lives and reducing the need for people to travel into Exeter.
We have set up pages on social media in the form of Twitter And Facebook:
Twitter - @TeamDawlish ( https://twitter.com/TeamDawlish )
Facebook - Red Arrows Motoscapers ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Arrows-Motoscapers/919687794720463?ref=hl )
And the Virgin Money Page above.
Any Help anyone could offer would be so gratefully appreciated.
Any help would of course get tweeted and Facebook recigition and any companies also get a vinyl sticker or 2 on the car displaying our gratitude.
Thank you
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Good luck with it... Have a good look through the guides for common issues and make sure you take a spare crankshaft sensor!!!
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Yep, good luck. :y
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Yes, Good Luck............ :y :y
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Crank sensor and an hbv are often considered part of the omega onboard spares pack. ...along with alternator, aux belt(ac and non ac) wheel bearing etc etc etc ;D
Best of luck sounds like fun. Good cause too. :y
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Crank sensor and an hbv are often considered part of the omega onboard spares pack. ...along with alternator, aux belt(ac and non ac) wheel bearing etc etc etc ;D
Best of luck sounds like fun. Good cause too. :y
Best bet would be to aquire another car and tow it behind ;D :y
Good luck :y
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Cheers Thanks for the advice Guys and support I'm looking forward to sharing some pictures with you once it's finished but if you want sneak peeks at it then I'm posting them on our Facebook and twitter pages
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If this isn't allowed I'm sorry but we're selling our banger and thought some of you maybe interested or even just curious.
<Link removed - really sorry, but we do enforce a zero tolerance policy on our selling rules>
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I'd have thought the bonnet would have been worth more then a few quid alone and would look great on the Red Arrows crew room wall :y
Fingers crossed, the lads @ Raf Scampton will get wind of this and get there wallets out :y :y
Good luck with the auction :)
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This went for £285 in the end
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Shame :(
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That is crap >:(
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That's a shame, easy oil leak fix as well. :(
Was looking at that with interest, as planning on doing the Wacky Rally next year for 'Help the Hero's', either the Barcelona or Prague one. Could have been an instant Theme Car, pretty much ready to go, biggest problem for us is storing it until next June, just got nowhere left to park the thing off road.
Just bad timing, shame that, probably would have paid a tad more for it as well if I'm honest. :-X
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Thanks for all the Support Everyone
We've been let down by our buyer so am going through the time wasters proses on eBay but keep an eye out as its going to be resisted soon.
Ps sorry Admin I should have read the rules before posting.
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Hi Everyone,
Sorry I've not kept you all updated. We had a bit of haste selling the car but in the end after 3 listings sold it for £172 ( not as much as we would have liked but in the end just wanted it off our hands)
We raised a total of around £1800 on the rally and Geoff who started the fund at the start of 2015 raised £47,000 ( his target was £20,000) in just a year!
We've made a few videos of our trip and have posted links below ( sorry admin if this isn't allowed)
https://youtu.be/PHY0S5c9PD0
https://youtu.be/FpkyfdWAZiE
https://youtu.be/1cuc3RlPapQ
This was an amazing road trip and would highly recommend it to anyone considering doing one. (The Motoscape team are great)
We enjoyed it so much that we're doing it again this year but just as an adventure without the fundraising. If you want to follow our run up to and on the rally we're on Twitter @beachedbuoys and also Facebook with the same name Beached Buoys. This year we're doing a surf patrol / Baywatch type theme
So please follow us on social media
Thank You
Mark
Beached Buoys (was Red Arrows)
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I know this is a bit of a thread hijack, but my eldest son in a serving airman curently at marham, Norfolk. He is going to be doing a charity banger race at Swaffham raceway to help raise funds for the rAF benevolent fund. Car has been painted by the paintshop and does look good. If I can get aic of it, will se if I can get it posted. Unfortunatly, its a passat, but as it came for nothing...........
Keith ABS