Gavin Green's father, rally driver Evan Green, wrote a book entitled “Journeys with Gelignite Jack”, a fascinating account of his groundbreaking journey through Australia in a classic Mini. This year journalist Gavin Green retraced his father's steps in a new MINI. He, like his father 43 years ago, traversed some of the world’s most hostile driving terrain. The stock 2009 MINI Cooper impressed. Running on 16 inch tires Gavin didn’t once have to change tires over 12,000 miles of hard travel, despite the MINI often having to cover a mix of rock, mud, sand and asphalt at high speed.The full story of Gavin’s trip will be read first by flyers travelling with British Airways when it is published as the cover story on 1 July in BA “High Life” magazine. The story and additional images will also appear online at www.bahighlife.com.
[Source: Motorcities]
