On Mar 7, 5:06am, John Gillis wrote:
> For those who don't know the background to this
> little gem: It is the story of a pre-launch trip of two Heralds, a saloon
> and a coupe that drove 9000 miles through Africa and most importantly
> through the Sahara, starting at Cape Town. They had a Standard Atlas van a
> Pennant Companion and later a Vanguard for company. The book is stuffed
> with heroic photo's and stories about how these brave little cars and even
> braver driver succeded, and suceed they did.
FWIW, there's a Standard/Triumph short documentary/promo movie
of this event. It is included in the video that the Delaware
Valley Triumphs made available several years ago. Anyone know
if they're still selling those?
John Lye
rjl6n@virginia.EDU
http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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