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A charity tour for orphan children

Trudy and Dirk Regter from the Netherlands go on a world tour in a 1915 Ford Model T, covering all continents of the world. They are making this trip with the aim of raising money for orphans worldwide.

To date, they have driven 64,000 miles across 31 countries and have raised more than $45,000 spent on children's projects in Colombia and Bolivia. An earlier trip by Dirk in 2007 from Beijing to Paris in the Model T raised more than $140,000, of which 2 children's projects were built in Mongolia. The last part of their world tour,about 10,500 miles, takes them back home to the Netherlands via Asia. If you support the purpose of this journey, you can take ownership of some of these 10,500 miles of this final leg.

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    Report 23 June

    Posted on 23 June 2014 by DirkJan

    Report of 23 June
    Report by Thecla

    Monday 23th June

    Official change of the key of the Landrover and stickering of the Landrover with the names of us. But the stickering doesn’t work out so simply because the heat had done some damage to the prepared sticker. We needed the help of doctor Dirk with his scalpel to complete the names.

    changing of the keys

    changing of the keys

    Doctor Dirk in action

    Doctor Dirk in action

    the sticker of us on the Landrover is ready

    the sticker of us on the Landrover is ready

    Today Trudy and Thecla stay on the campsite and make a short discovering hike in the nature. They see all kind of exclusive,  blooming and smelling plants, giant trees with magic air roots  and exotic birds. There are also some animals in the orphanage, but they are more easily to see.

    toekan

    toekan

    Benno and Dirk drive with the Landrover to the company of David, in search of the disturbing noise inside the T ford. They get fantastic help from David Verdu en Carlos Joniaux, by changing the location of maintenance in a open door location what really more comfortable is, less warmth.  By opening the carter pan there was a small piece of Babbitt which felled down.
    The energy level of our man went to a very deep point. The piece belonged to the front cover of the crankshaft bearing. How worse is it? Some call it the BIG END!!
    The great hospitable David and Carlos offering any help we need. Professionals who have a good network of people. Benno and Dirk are taken to many different garages in search of a solution for the broken Babbitt. Finally they decide to let make a new piece of bearing what they can prepare by their own.

    damaged bearring

    damaged bearing

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