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Evening Star, 23 January 1997. 'They Conquered the desert...' |
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.. Then couldn’t manage to find their own way home!
Suffolk’s desert heroes Dick Partridge and Keith Parker mastered
everything one of the world’s most gruelling endurance tests
could throw at them – but they couldn’t find their way home!
Dick, from Akenham, and Keith, of Shotley Gate, became the first Brits
to finish the Total Dakar Rally for more than a decade in their homespun
Isuzu Trooper. But when they returned to Dakar they found their slim
budget had dried up completely and it took an SOS call to Ipswich
businessman Ray Walters of Orwell Motor Cycles to get them home.
“We ran out of money and Ray proved to be our fairy godmother
by arranging our plane tickets home,” said Dick.
Ray even picked them up at Stansted Airport to transport them back
to Ipswich on the final leg of a journey which had more incidents
than a Sunday motorist has in a lifetime. “We have to thank
Ray, and our other sponsors, Goddards and Healeys Printers, as we
could not have done it without their help” added Dick.
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