Except for a spare tyre, our tow rope, the ARB tyre inflation hose, $ 12,372 in used Nigerian notes and the rag we use to wipe the dipstick. (But he's on holiday so we don't need it...).
Was it Burt Reynolds who starred in Every which way but loose? I think so. Anyway, it seems that the toolbox on the rear of the car became a little unhinged today (happens to us all in these temperatures, right?) and so its contents ended up, well, a little Reynoldsed. Scattered to the four corners of the Earth. Given that the Earth is a spheroid, albeit marginally prolated, it's difficult to know exactly where those four corners are, which explains why we couldn't find our oily rag, or tyre inflation hose, in the vast expanse of sandpaper we call the desert.
Still never mind, T-Phablog was on hand to dash to his ageing Land Rover in Dubai and remove the ARB inflation hose stored within. Only to be told it wasn't one of those he needed to deliver to the desert 5 hours drive away, but a different ARB inflation hose, a Jose Mourinho. Yes, a Special One.
So he dashed again, driving straight past the offices of the rather wonderful SRG Motorsports whose driver was going to deliver said hose to the desert 5 hours drive away if T-Phablog could just get back there in time, onwards to the ARB store in the less than salubrious International City. His mission? To buy a Dh 200 tyre hose.( Last year they were only Dh 185, but hey, that's inflation for you....) No matter that they closed at 6pm but promised to wait until T-Phab got there at 6.07pm, they had the part!!!!! Which was surprisingly just like the part T-P could have delivered to SRG 20 minutes earlier.....Hmm. What's wrong with this picture?
Quick phone call. "Hello Ian" "Yes" "I'm looking at this ARB hose and it's like the one I've got with me in my car" "No you have one for a Bushranger compressor" "Yes but I also have an ARB one" "Do you?" "Yes" "Oh right, yes that's the one, please take it to SRG Motorpsorts, you know, the place you drove past 20 minutes ago...... " "So I needn't have driven to ARB" "Err no". "OK, no problem, I'll just turn round then and drive through the rush hour traffic a second time to the place I passed not so very long ago....."
Thank you Sean Gaugain and the good people of SRG Motorsports for your help. Ian owes you (and me) alcohol...a lot of alcohol
Apart from that we broke an axle (it's alright, so did Guns 'n Roses and they just fixed it) but otherwise it was just a walk in the park. A really deserty park, with lots of sand. And sticky bits. High temperatures, no swings, no ducks, very few trees, no crazy golf, no huts selling ice cream and no scantily clad young office workers slipping off their blouses in the summer months and rubbing sun tan oil into their........ NOW STOP THAT!
Sorry. The UAE Desert Challenge - it's serious stuff. With very little Tropicana. But the drinks are free. Allegedly.
Was it Burt Reynolds who starred in Every which way but loose? I think so. Anyway, it seems that the toolbox on the rear of the car became a little unhinged today (happens to us all in these temperatures, right?) and so its contents ended up, well, a little Reynoldsed. Scattered to the four corners of the Earth. Given that the Earth is a spheroid, albeit marginally prolated, it's difficult to know exactly where those four corners are, which explains why we couldn't find our oily rag, or tyre inflation hose, in the vast expanse of sandpaper we call the desert.
Still never mind, T-Phablog was on hand to dash to his ageing Land Rover in Dubai and remove the ARB inflation hose stored within. Only to be told it wasn't one of those he needed to deliver to the desert 5 hours drive away, but a different ARB inflation hose, a Jose Mourinho. Yes, a Special One.
So he dashed again, driving straight past the offices of the rather wonderful SRG Motorsports whose driver was going to deliver said hose to the desert 5 hours drive away if T-Phablog could just get back there in time, onwards to the ARB store in the less than salubrious International City. His mission? To buy a Dh 200 tyre hose.( Last year they were only Dh 185, but hey, that's inflation for you....) No matter that they closed at 6pm but promised to wait until T-Phab got there at 6.07pm, they had the part!!!!! Which was surprisingly just like the part T-P could have delivered to SRG 20 minutes earlier.....Hmm. What's wrong with this picture?
Thank you Sean Gaugain and the good people of SRG Motorsports for your help. Ian owes you (and me) alcohol...a lot of alcohol
Apart from that we broke an axle (it's alright, so did Guns 'n Roses and they just fixed it) but otherwise it was just a walk in the park. A really deserty park, with lots of sand. And sticky bits. High temperatures, no swings, no ducks, very few trees, no crazy golf, no huts selling ice cream and no scantily clad young office workers slipping off their blouses in the summer months and rubbing sun tan oil into their........ NOW STOP THAT!
Sorry. The UAE Desert Challenge - it's serious stuff. With very little Tropicana. But the drinks are free. Allegedly.
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