Tuesday, September 19, 2017

On January 27 1929 a convoy consisting of five Bugatti started their journey through the Sahara





The cars are built as pick-ups and with 800 kilograms of goods on them they are hopelessly overloaded. Amongst other things, each car carries 260 litres of benzin, 20 litres of oil and 20 litres of water. About half of the load is the personal luggage of the travelers and most of the participants have even planned to carry out hunting excursions on the southern edge of the Sahara – and they do not want to do that without a certain level of personal comfort. One of the participants, Lieutenant Loiseau, warns about the too heavy load even before they start the journey: He intends to do a record-trip from Paris to Cite d'Ivoire and back…

Some of the participants of this journey do not believe that they can leave some of their luggage back they buy a truck to join them instead!

http://www.desert-vehicles.org/index.php?article_id=243

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