Team There and Back Again
The team
Two good friends, Stephen Nix and Christopher Hind, are US expats who live in Archana and are currently on leave from their oil exploration jobs with the Hell corporation. They have the money and the time to compete and have decided: “why not?”
They are an ameteur team and have used a budget of $10,000 on entering this race.
The Car
Having little money to spare, Chris sourced a straight, rust free, WWII era Bogliq GPDV and set about modifying it to suit the competition. The car was first stripped down, all rust removed and the body resprayed. Since this was an endurance event, raw power wasn’t sourced (or possible, lol) so the ancient OHV four was rebuilt with fully forged internals and a re-tune to efficiently use 92RON. The old carburettor was replaced with a twin barrel Leeroy Racing carb, for reliability, and the jets were re-tuned for efficiency. The exhaust was replaced with a set of tubular headers (scratch built) and the exhaust now had two mufflers so that Chris and Steve could hear each other talk!
The old canvas and steel seats were chucked and much nicer seats from a Bogliq Ambassador were bolted in. A top shelf radio was also installed. The front drums were upgraded with an official US Army field upgrade kit to a twin leading shoe design and a four speed gearbox from a junker Zealot was sourced. Finally, the car was made roadworthy by installing indicators, mirrors and some swanky new radial off-road tyres.
They may win or they may come last, but what is certain is they’ll have a great time doing it!
EDIT: The Ambassador seats broke their bolts (too heavy, lol) and the luxury radio had to be traded in to repair the damage. A set of front seats from a USDM Zealot and a basic radio have been installed in their place… 