Photos to follow...
Following the cars continual overheating, on Sue's wedding anniversary she was treated to a trip to the local scrap yard, and was bought a Renault Clio radiator and fan, which is now held in place with hoses and beer cans (to protect from the exhaust manifold heat) and thus, with the non-Delage fix, although taken from a French car, the temperature has dropped by around 15 degrees, and the car appears to be behaving itself for now...
Mark has also adapted the bonnet further so that even more air can flow under it and over the engine.
Their journey from Tanger to Rabat went o.k, although the old French wagon is holding up the rest of the pack a little...despite being one of the slower cars, the Delage still managed to pull quite a crowd wherever they stopped!
As for the whole journey itself, everything is going very well, although there was a little bit of a hold up to begin with. No your wrong, this had nothing to do with the car over heating, and in fact it had nothing to do with any of the old cars involved in the trip! In fact, the group was let down by the reliable build quality of one of the support Land Rovers that blew its engine up somewhere in Europe (exactly where I will have to find out).
The driver, who I believe is also one of the main rally organisers, has had to make his way over by public transport, leaving behind all the cooking equipment etc that the group was to use in some of the more 'rural' areas. I believe the plan is that the Land Rover will catch up the rest of the group once the engine has been repaired, but until then, it looks like Mark and Sue will be cooking by open fire, something I'm sure they'll enjoy...
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