{"id":3758,"date":"2024-04-13T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:14:14","slug":"grand-tour-prepping-the-cars-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/grand-tour-prepping-the-cars-and-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand tour prepping the cars and support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

here are some ideas we had for the cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Maserati<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"F<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Aston<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Preparation was over the winter in Huddersfield and Millys garage Cheshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"F<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Beady<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chris<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Beady's<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chris<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Db9<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"it<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Testing<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"James<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Jeremy<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some testing in the Uk to make sure the cars worked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Maserati<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Support<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Testing<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"it<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Grand<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chris<\/a>
Chris Jones and Potter drive the truck with the cars in a car transporter all the way to Mauritania , and then return from Dakar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And then 5 weeks in Mauritania doing on-set support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"taking<\/a>
taking a rest Kev paul, beady and Alex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rally<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Crew<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"paddles<\/a>
paddles fitted to the maserati for the sand job river crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rally<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dusty<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Kev<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"the<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Support<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Navigation<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"real<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Support<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Beady<\/a>
Beady with Richard hammond after fixing hs car at the side of the road in the desert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"tyre<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"truck<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"truck<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"loading<\/a>
loading the cars in zouerat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Akros<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Night<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Red<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"night<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"night<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"loading<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"loading<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"little<\/a>
little cameras in the cars are actually called mini cams!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"little<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"little<\/a>
little cameras in the cars are actually called mini cams!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sand<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"View<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Desert<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hotel<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rally<\/a>
Hotel bus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Milly<\/a>
Milly supporting the troops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

here are some ideas we had for the cars. Preparation was over the winter in Huddersfield and Millys garage Cheshire. Some testing in the Uk to make sure the cars worked And then 5 weeks in Mauritania doing on-set support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}