Update - 3/4/2023. I am putting these together on my laptop as I travel, or when I'm at home in UK. I intend to share a series of short films of mine and other travellers tales on this dedicated overland travel channel. My adventures will cover trips made over the last 30 years in; Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, The Himalayas, Guatemala and various Long Range Desert Group related expeditions. I shall also show a few 'engine' related films for viewers amusement! I hope you enjoy these first few and that you will do me the pleasure of subscribing. Thank you.
this video is dismal, not a single interesting view. Wadi Sora reduced to zero comment, no knowledge on your part. . Taking your picture was the purpose of this trip. Lousy. please remove this distressing video with your faces
Hi Toby! This looks like a fantastic book. I'm in the US and there is only the one option for shipping. Will you be adding more? Or, perhaps We should just select United Kingdom for now and sort the details later?
Hi Mark, Thank you for your kind comments. It was just too complicated to list all postage options on Kickstarter. I'll be very happy to post it to USA. It will be here and ready to dispatch at the beginning of March. I can get a postage price then and maybe you can pay be via PayPal? No sure, butyou may have topay an import tax. Thanks! Toby
Thank you very much. Most kind. I only wish Arthur was still around to enjoy it. There is enough material for a second film about his ‘dear John’ letter. Heartbreaking 🥲
@@tobysavage The world should be able to see, we all have a story and it's time to record it for prosperity, in a hundred years we are the history people will look at. I bet you have hrs of footage, put it out there, don't let it go with you!
@@tobysavage nice I've always wanted to fit a td5 engine into a 101. I seen on in the flesh a few years back and immediately wanted to stop my d2 pickup build in its tracks scrap the body and cab and do a forward control build on the chassis. I didn't know a 101 could carry so much weight a he jeep in the back woe
@@markkiely8326 Mate - with one jeep in the back and the second on the trailer we pulled a sat nav confirmed 63mph on a clear flat stretch of A14. Must have been close on four tons! #Rocking
Lovely. I've always wanted to go to Morocco, and travel the coast to Algeria. My father was a US military policeman in North Africa and Italy in 1943-44. His crew secured port cities along the Mediterranean coast after the Allies pushed the Germans out. He landed in Tangiers and then followed the army push, he said, by train along the coast as far as Oran, Algeria. I wonder if there is still a rail line along that route? I have photos of him standing in uniform in front of the Hotel Oran in 1944. He made it as far as Naples before being wounded and sent home in August 1944.
Marvellous! What a story he must have told. Sadly the border between Morocco and Algeria has been closed for years. I was lucky enough to be in Algiers about 15 years ago. It retains some of its colonial splendour to this day.Oran must have been spectacular.
Marvelous journey. I watch Ryan McBeth's RU-vid channel about all-things-about-war, and was worried you might encounter unexploded land mines in your travels. McBeth was stationed with the US army in Egypt and said they weren't allowed into the open desert due to UXO from WW2 and more recent conflicts. The old wrecks you found are incredible - thanks for the vicarious thrill.
Thanks Eric! Very nice of you to comment. Thankfully no UXO on those trails. I've had issues over in the West, but that was from the much later conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara. :-(
Seeing all the old kit laying sandblasted yet preserved was thrilling. I still have my all original 1956 Willys CJ5 with its F-head 134 engine and N90 3-speed gearbox. It's a treat to drive.
They did that. Opinion is divided. Extra cooling? Or to scoop soft sand out after a sand storm? These both had repro grilles so we didn’t chop the original ones 😉
Having driven a GPW a few times I remember going into a corner maybe a little bit quicker than the Jeep would like and had to take two bites at the corner so as not to roll over in a soft top with no roll bar, I then remember saying to my Co Pilot at the time I have a new found respect for the "Rat Patrol" a TV series based loosly on the SAS in the North African campaign. Well done this was a great follow up to find after watching Popski's Lost Patrol. Much as I would love a WW2 Jeep my favorite would be an Ex Australian Army Haflinger, Both these days have become somewhat expensive but not quite as up there as it seems Series Land Rovers have become, Should have kept mhe 86 inch series one I had , I would happily settle for a Light weight but they are few and far between in Australia and it seems like early Jaguars out here that old Landy's are being exported back to Blighty because our conditions seem kinder to older vehicles because we do not salt the roads for winter. At least we have some good people out here that can help with resoration work, We even have somebody that was smart enough during the shutdown of Leyland Australia to realise what something was and buy it at Auction. He now is one of the very few people in the World capable of making the old style cloth covered wiring looms. Then there is the Family Business in South Australia that bought all the spares, Tooling and rights that specialise in old Bedford Trucks that supply worldwide and yet another specialist in the Southern Highlands south of Sydney at Mittagong who only works on Coventry Climax Engines that get sent for repair and overhaul from across the world
Thank you for your kind comments Stephen. Well done for keeping your jeep on four wheels! We would all love a Hafi, but here, as there,, they are crazy money. I am lucky to have kept hold of my 1948 Land Rover that I bought back in 1974! And it still works. All the best, Toby
Thanks Paul, You will be pleased to hear that we all enjoyed it, and even 11 years later talk about it being the best trip ever! It its sad that since then it has not been possible to visit that area with such freedom....
It’s really good that your back, absolutely love your style of film and what a great Fun group of chaps of all ages. A breath of fresh air! Thank you. Ps I need to try the party trick with the napkin. 😂
That looked like great fun. But you really need to stick a couple of Vickers K guns on there. I would have loved to do that complete with nothing but WW2 technology and food etc. And where was your sun compass??
Thank you for your comment. Yes. It was great fun. It would’ve been nice to have a pair of Vickers guns, but they may have arouse suspicion at Alexandra docks! Sun compass, too expensive! All the best
Love the fact you went even after the event was cancelled. A man after my own heart. I've done the same a few time's, well, I've either turned up a week early or late. To be honest.
The actual LRDG did not use jeeps. They used cut down 30cwt Chevrolet trucks seconded from the Egyptian Police. They were recce units only and did not go on raids. Jeeps were used later by David Stirling, and his group later called the SAS. The LRDG were their support for logistics and comms only. Get it right.
@@tobysavage It isn't a pompous comment, but an accurate one. The SAS were the first of the two to use the Jeep, as they were the first of the two to use the Vickers MG. Read the 'Phantom Major',a book release in the fifties with an excellent and well-supported accounting. It is also interesting to point out that some of the stock footage used here is of the SAS and not the LRDG.
@@geographyinaction7814 We did the trip. You didn’t. It was fun and we know it was not strictly accurate, but so what? It never aimed to be and was never promoted as 100% historically accurate. To do it in Chevies would have been impossible. And LRDG did use jeeps. Unarmed like ours.
Sorry to be arsy, but the fact is we covered 1200 desert miles in two 1943 jeeps that had not been done since WW2 and will probably not be done again. Having achieved that, we feel justifiably proud and, frankly couldn’t give a damn about who originally used jeeps and what guns were fitted. Over and out brothers.
I remember reading your account abou this trip so now seeing this blog brings it home more. It shows what the members of LRDG had to go through, such bravery.
