London Cape Town 2012: Day 11 from Hayden

January 12, 2012

Photos by John Bayliss from Car 37: Volvo 144 The organisers say Day 9 of the 2012 London to CapeTown was the most physically demanding day so far, after so many crews became stuck in the soft sand of the first desert section in Egypt. The ferry that night took them into Duba, to be [...]

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Day 9 London Cape Town 2012: It’s in the SAND

January 9, 2012

Photos by Gerard Brown I’ve been ploughing through a ton of work all weekend while the 2012 London to Capetown Rally was at sea. Today was their first day racing and they moved from paved European roads to sand, with the inevitable consequences of folks getting stuck and quite a few changes in the running [...]

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Blogging is Life: Fun iPhone Poetry

January 8, 2012

I grew up working for the family business: a small chain of music shops in Ireland. The company was eventually closed by recession, but it was great fun while we had it. One of my favourite things about the shops was escaping the women and working with the men of the family; in particular my [...]

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Ferdinand Magazine, Model Cars & Bata Mataja

January 8, 2012

How many of you have heard of Ferdinand magazine? Ferdinand is a digital-only Porsche mag, ‘published’ once a month and distributed free of charge. Launched in December 2011, Jamie and I supplied a feature for their first issue: it was interesting to see how they handled it. The story we sent is a Team Glypman [...]

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Classic Porsche Podcast: Who do you want to hear?

January 7, 2012

So I finally won a Samson microphone on eBay. This is the tool that good buddy, Tim Brown (now of the Apple Car Company) and I used to create some really great podcasts when we both worked for Glass’s Guide, so I will start doing the same here. The pics here are of Tim’s latest [...]

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London to Cape Town: Porsches Claim More Scalps

January 7, 2012

Pics by Gerard Brown Day 6 of the London CapeTown was always going to be tough. Here’s Hayden’s first text of the day: Brilliant morning. “Digger” the goat 912 clambered through the mud of the first World Cup section of the morning. Lots of cars were stuck and collected a lot of time penalties. In [...]

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