11 Nov 2011

The Trip of a Lifetime - Lynne Douglas

From Afternoons, 2:10 pm on 11 November 2011

Bob Douglas was just a teenager when bought his classic 1948 MG TC car for 307 dollars in 1966. Now at age 64, Bob and his wife Lynne from South Yorkshire have clocked up more miles than they can count in that car. Over the years they've done road trips across Australia, North America, and South America. Their latest road trip finished a few months ago, through Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China, South East Asia before finally catching a boat in Singapore to bring them to New Zealand. They've travelled on dirt tracks, across rivers, over the Andes, All in a 63 year old MG. Now they'd like to make New Zealand their final pit stop.

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