:: GUMBALL 3000 BLOG ::

The two brothers Christensen from Dallas, reports the first day of the 2007 Gumball Rally. They drive this Aston Martin V8 Vantage. They rented this car, but they should drive a new 997 GT3 RS!

The company we rented our vantage from, which was suposed to be a euro gt3rs in orange but didn’t have time to switch, delivered it with no fuel and bald front tires! by the time we got it sorted out we were lined up last, made the 20k seem well spent…especially when the CEL came on in Amsterdam.

Then we left London at 4pm yesterday and it is now 9am and we are finally in Germany waiting on a plane to take us to turkey.

We had cops next to us in London at MPH taking pics with us! Crazy.

France we had a close call or two.

Belgium was non eventful as far as cops go.

Germany…well lets just say 20k euros and 2hrs later we were able to go. they had a rode block up and stopped everyone(brought back memories of the bullrun last yr when KS troopers stopped everyone as well).

They were going to keep us till 10am the next day, they admitted to wanting us to miss our flight!

By this time it was 3am…7 hrs did not sound good in 40* whether locked out of our cars on the side of the road at 3am. so 2hrs and 20k euros later they let us go!

we missed our scheduled take off and are waiting for the next opening!

My camera cable is in my suitcase so pics will have to come after we get checked in at the hotel in Istanbul.

What an experience…and its the first day!!

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