In the spirit of a bit of banter, 3 of us headed off on a drive down to the Sahara in Libya. This was before the trouble. There were 2 80 series cruisers and a LR 110. The 110 driver wanted to take France a bit slower than we were planning to in the cruisers so set off a few days before us. The plan was to meet at a hotel just outside Marseille the day before the Mediterranean ferry crossing.
Well his car broke down on the way to Dover but was fixed, it then broke down again just inside France but was fixed again, it then did it a third time just outside Paris and had to be recovered back to UK. His holiday was over before we had even left home. Needless to say the 2 Land Cruisers performed faultlessly for the whole trip. We did bring him back a plastic water bottle full of sand as a memento

Ian