Andrew Prince said:
Welcome Olazz!
Would love to know what must have gone through that Spaniard's mind about his shiny RR when he saw your kitted truck pulling up.... I bet he
wasn't thinking of what a cool cat he is in his drug-dealer/footballer-special black pimp mobile
BTW what made his battery flat? Sitting there pumping his 47-speaker stereo system and watching dvds with the kids while hoping someone would come past with a jack?
You also need to give us a rundown on your trip - how did the 80 go, feedback on tyres etc
Cheers,
They were a very nice family, but complete novices..
Husband, wife and 2 young sons under 10.
They had decided to take an unmarked road road across a mountain pass that they though to be 25kms,(locals told them) but was in fact closer to 120kms. They had no maps, no GPS and no idea where they were.
Battery was flat as they had been there for 6 hours and their two young sons were watching DVD's plugged into a 1500w inverter. Stopped running the engine as they were very low on fuel after running for 3 hours to keep the boys entertained. Battery went dead in about 40mins thereafter.
They had no food, 2lts of warm water and I was the first person ( and I guess the only person that day) to drive that route.
He didn't think to carry a jack as he had fitted BFG AT tyres before he left Spain and was told they would never have to worry about a puncture with those tyres.( and there was no room after his wife packed half her shoe cupboard)
The wife begged us to travel in convoy with them as the experience had really frightened them.
The route was like this for about another 60kms
They were extremely grateful and they invited us to stay at their villa in Marbella for a week, put on a great party for us, introduced us to all their friends and family.
You can imagine the ribbing they got for the remainder of the trip about their rubbish RR and merits of the mighty LC.
He was amazed at the gear on the truck from the water/food/tent/ to the on board air etc etc etc.. just kept saying you could have stayed there for a week without a problem and we were panicking after 2 hours...
Anyway we made some good friends and they want to do another trip, this time with more preparation... he warned me that the next time hs car will be a real G4 RR!!!
LC80 - 1 RR - 0
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