If it wasn't for bad luck.......

Looks like we spoke too soon in our last post. We have been putting a lot of work into Marvin, but to be honest we seem to be getting nowhere. The king pins that had been replaced less than 5000 miles ago, hadn't been done right so needed replacing. Front wheel bearings..... the same story. And the body got worse and worse the more we have cut into it. On the sponsorship front we have been contacting companies left right and centre and I don't think more than one has had the decency to even say no. O2 kept us hanging round for ages with Jan emailing and ringing endlessly, for them to eventually decide they wouldn't give us a satellite phone for the month. And with a few exceptions ( special thanks to Didi and Alan, MARK, and Tony and Julie) sponsors are hiding somewhere.To be honest the pair of us are running on empty now. All the delays we have had have left us unable to go rallying to collect the sponsor money we desperately need.
While I've been increasing the pile of rust in the garage Jan has been busy sorting out and here at least we are making progress. But with time running short we have had to come to a difficult decision. To get Marvin on the road, MOTd and then bedded down before we leave on the 30th July has become beyond us and with offers of help disappearing we don't see to have any other option. So this is the official obituary of Marvin, our poor old 2CV. We are really upset about this but the 3 months or so we lost while trying to source a new chassis have left us no real options.
So watch this space for news of Marvin the Third..........

And if anyone out there can help us with a satellite phone for the rally PLEASE PLEASE contact us. Or if your company would like to buy advertising space on Marvin III we are waiting for your call