Here is a few pictures of the taxi with the folk who sponsored us on the rally. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH
Sorry they are linked, apparently your considered so charitable and great that it won’t let me put a thumbnail of each photo on this page so you’ll have to click through them till you find your name.
Taxi photos coming soon!
The time is near!
Its all very exciting isn’t it!
I’ve just finished packing my gear and the tools for the taxi. Getting up at the crack of dawn to drive down to finish up some work on the taxi to get it ready for the Student Brake Away 2007 challenge.
This will probably be my last update till we are on the road. Leaving Brighton Friday morning with 150 other fancy dress cars lol.
Till Europe, take care!
Rich
The team has been busy. We all took a spin in the taxi the other day, it was great, found out the brakes are brilliant, but thats fine, we can sort that out. It was a good old fashion Top Gear test with a deserted large piece of tarmac, some cornering, some screaming, some heavy braking, some driving over heights….(wasn’t me, promise)
With the departure of team from Canterbury, the taxi has been put into hibernation for a few weeks till we return to prepare it for its epic journey
The taxi is fully functional! Canterbury was shocked as the taxi trundled along the streets of Canterbury and KentUni Campus and the engine sounds better than my own car!!
We also had our interview with the Adscene newspaper and so if you are lucky enough to get that fantastic free paper through your doors in East Kent then look out for our article in the coming weeks. We will also put a scan of the article up on the site as soon as we can.
The team will be going on advanced training to get used to the unusual experiences such as acceleration, g-force and more that comes with Jas driving 
Taxi status: Dead battery, currently looking for a new one, after which going to take some photos of it in action!!
T-Shirts still on sale, £18, money goes to charity, email the team
Donations: Remember if you donate more than £2 your name will be put on the taxi as it drives the 3500 miles
Company Sponsors: We are still looking for corporate sponsorship, if you think your employers might be interested send us an email letting us know who they are.
Right off we go!
Rich
TeamSNH@hotmail.co.uk
We’ve got it!!!! It’s here in Canterbury!!!! Its great!!!!!
We collected the taxi this morning from Southend, while Chris, Rhiannon and Jas did the money exchange, I was shown everything that was wrong with it and got my first ride in the taxi. Afterwards Chris drove it the 80 something miles to Canterbury with myself following in a 2nd car (just in case) but fortunately nothing major went wrong. Although after just 5 minutes Chris broke a window, we have also used tape in a few places.
But its all good now with the taxi here with us!! Below are a few shots, I’ve put the rest in the new “Gallery” page on the site (more to come)
Richard
Team SNH
We did it!!!!
At the unearthly hour of 10am, Team SNH bundled into a car and drove to Southend to view a classic London cab, there we experienced the highs and lows of used car sales. We looked it over, and for an 18 year old vehicle it was in good condition……and at exactly 21:52:06 BST today we bought it!!!! We have a taxi!!!!!!
The team will be driving back to Southend in our own “support car” to pick it up and get it back to Canterbury. I’ve already packed my toolkit….and my RAC card….expecting the worst as we drive 50miles in it back home.
First driving privileges haven’t been made yet but I reckon our illustrious leader, Reesy, with have first honours on its maiden voyage as Team SNH’s Gumball rally car and I’ll be driving the support car loaded with the tools when it all goes wrong on the Dartford crossing (not that I’m worried of course, in fact i’ve had nothing but good luck with 4 used cars…so might run out on Saturday eeek!)
Pictures below, we took some video diary footage of it to which will make it up on the site one day.
Driving in style don’t you think 
Richard
Team SNH
The team is still waiting to find the taxi of our dreams to take us 3500 miles (though I was working on the route last night and I was getting more than 3500 :S ).
Anyway, to keep you all amused I found another taxi image, I thought it would be good to run a caption competition on this one. So any captions, put in the comments, comments are moderated at the moment cos I don’t know how to switch it off, when I do, I will
[EDIT] ok comment moderation is off, i think, unless your spamming us, in that case its on 
Richard
Team SNH
Can you imagine 4 of us covering 3500 miles in that??
Jas will have to sit on the roof!
