Peking to Paris 2016 in a 1966 VW Karmann Ghia Patrick & Christine Sommer Car 65

Many of you have followed us on the 2015 "Road to Mandalay" and on the 2012 “London to Cape Town” rallies. On June 12 we will start to drive 14 000 km on the "Peking to Paris" rally. The race will take us through Mongolia & Siberia driving through 11 countries until we reach Place Vendôme in Paris on July 17. We will try to post a short comment on our blog on most days with the exception of Mongolia where we will have no internet access.

Saturday 25 June 2016

Day 14 Rest day Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is a 1,5 mln city where the summer temperature can go to +30 Celsius and to - 45 Celsius in winter.

Some old wooden houses built for the Siberian winter are left among the more modern buildings.

Rest days on rallies always turn into crash courses in mechanics.

Fortunately we were in the pleasant position that nothing was broken on our Karmann Ghia.

A number of cars had not resisted to the demands of the Mongolian tracks and had to precipitate their arrival in Novosibirsk to be repaired.

The day started with Yokohama tires organising to mount new tires for us.

We then ventured to the Novosibirsk Volkswagen dealership where we did some routine work on the car. The very supportive and helpful VW team was happy to see a 1966 Karmann Ghia.

The final job of the day was to go to a specialist for wheels and tires who took all the dents out of our wheels caused by the big rocks on the tracks.

1 comment:

John L, MiamiSunday 26 June 2016 at 08:53:00 GMT-7
Took 'Little Red' to that same VW dealership in 2013. It was the first rear engine, air cooled VW they had every seen. They couldn't help and referred us to their truck division a few blocks away! Keep calm and Rally On!
ReplyDelete
Replies

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)