Documentary

I have spent the last few weeks trying to find a way of having a documentary made of the whole rally in order to increase the awareness of and funds for Julia's House. I have approached several production companies who are very enthusiastic about the project, however they have said that without a big name celebrity then they would be unable to take on the expense of filming as they would be unlikely to sell the programme to a TV channel. I have contacted numerous celebrity agents however as the rally is 18 months away they are unable to tell what their clients will be doing this far in advance. I have even contacted the major TV channels who, whilst being interested, have said that they too would like to see a celeb involved. What happened to reality TV aye? So now I need to find someone well known enough to satisfy the TV channels, as well as being up for a challenge and willing to spend 3 weeks in a car worth £500. Anyone know of such a person?!?

Eddie Murphy perhaps?

New Year's Visit

Having withdrawal symptoms from not seeing the old chap over the festive period, Paul and I decided to head over to SMS motors and see how the Mustard Bomber was doing. On our arrival we saw that work on the car was in full flow. Lucky Number 7 was up on the ramp and the sills were being repaired. I was interested to see a number of 'inspection holes' at the bottom of the car. "How useful" I thought; these could be used for a number of applications ranging from foot steps to external shelving units, however it would appear that this is where the rust has been cut away ready for a fresh steel panel to be welded into place. I'm sure that this is probably the correct way of doing things although you do need to consider the benefit of all that extra storage space.

The guys at Southern Motor Services are doing a cracking job and I'm told that the MOT is on the horizon.

Our car has been SORNed until the MOT but when that is done we'll be taking Lucky No. 7 out on a few road trips in a bid to build up to th emain event slowly.

With the New Year we need to renew our efforts and start to approach perspective sponsors as well as looking to get the car sign written or wrapped with the sponsors logos.