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In June this year, Geoff (my brother) and I are going to join a number of other teams to travel in a Reliant vehicle to the North Cape and back, a trip of over 4,000 miles in 21 days. The trip will take us from Tamworth in the UK to Oslo then through Sweden and Norway up to the North Cape - the furthest point of Europe.
The challenge is open to anyone with a Reliant vehicle, whether it have 3 wheels or 4 and is also marks the 30th anniversary of Ernest Hausler who in 1968 at the age of 62 along with his wife, drove a 3-wheeled Reliant TW9 (also known as the Ant) on a 7,650 mile trip around Europe and to the North Cape. By doing this event we also hope to raise money for Birmigham Focus on Blindness. Please help us to raise money by donating online our aim is to raise £10,000 for the charity.
We have signed up for the challenge and we are Team 04. We had thought about doing the journey in my 1972 Reliant Regal Supervan III (Ole Blue) but decided that buying a newer Reliant would be advantageous as we could make certain modifications to it for the journey. Therefore we will be doing the journey in a 1990 Reliant Robin LX dubbed “New Blue”, the car needs work though before we start the journey.
As work progresses, updates will be posted on this page and we will will also report our adventures daily on our polar blog at http://www.polar.3wheelers.com once it the journey gets underway (This of course is dependent on an Internet connection for updates, we hope we can find a sponsor to provide us with some sort of Internet link) In addition we will also call “touch radio” each day as part of an on-air diary along with BBC Radio WM.
If anyone would like to sponsor our team for this project or if you would like more information, please contact me. For those who do sponsor us, we will include your name / logo on the car. We still need to work out details for this but will carry sponsorship logos on the vehicle. We also have a brochure in a PDF format with more information and contact details.
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