GABR 2014 Day 1
The Great Australian Bugatti Rally 2014 kicked off with Day 1 – arrival of all drivers into Canberra.
Canberra Left Melbourne at 730am 26 March after an early morning start with getting the car on the trailer (thanks to Grant Cowie for the lend of the trailer) -a bit hard and dangerous (for the car) in the dark. So everything was got ready and WIll M. assisted with the drive on.
Just turn on the fuel, a bit of choke, just off full retard and on the button. 13 or so litres of oil in the sump – so a few minutes of warming up required…..more like 5-10 to get some heat into the engine. Lovely burble from the straight 8.
Nice DRY road until Albury and then the rain. Anyway – 7.5 hours or so to Canberra to see Emma M. Stayed at University House. Very old Canberra (circa 1935) but with a nice safe car park and only 15 minutes walk from Em.
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