Hille 'desert fox' Ypma

This is a picture of Hille's adventures in the desert of arabia.

This is what happened. Hille was riding along in a Toyota Landcruiser 4.5EFI with a very rough Arab driving. The arab was 2 meters tall and 2 meters wide as well!

Hille thinks that they were put in this car on purpose because they received a special treatment!!! This is his story:

Allthough the car wasn't very old the driver had managed to wreck it in this short period of time. The alarmlight for the coolant knew only one mode 'on', the synchromesh of the first and second gear were non existant and the whole bodywork was moaning while we were driving.

Driving sanddunes was pretty difficult 'cause you constantly have to keep pase and only stop on a horizontal place otherwise you're stuck. Added to that difficulty was the fact that we were driving with 5 of those Landcruisers so you had to keep track of the car in front of you and preferably not run into it!

Our Arab had completely lost his marbles but was a very good driver. He particularly mastered one technique, when he encountered a dune he shifted into first, we put our fingers into our ears and he pushed the peddle to the metal. When we hit 6000 rpm he shifted into second (if the gearbox could still manage this). You could only see blue skies at this moment 'cause the dunes were so steep. Zigzagging our fellow Landcruiser we reached the top where he had to hit the breakes 'cause he had no idea what was on the other side. The moment he saw the other side of the dune he plunched into the deep.

Of course this has to go wrong once in a while and we were the lucky participants in this accident. Our driver was displaying his technique again when he had to avoid another driver, then he had no time left to stop and when flew over the top of the dune right into another sanddune. The next thing we saw was a huge cloud of freon, the fender, the airco and radiator falling off. The trip ended very well (40 degrees celcius, no airco and the rest of our party digging out their cars)!

Hille Ypma