This week’s Tall Tale involves Vero Sandler, and seeing how many Kiwis and their kit an ageing VW van can carry over Alpine passes.
2012 was my first year out of high school so me and a few mates from back home in NZ decided to save up all the pennies from our summer jobs and send it around Europe racing some of the World Cup circuit.
My mate Reece and I borrowed an old VW Transporter off some family friends of mine in Germany to get us from race to race, we named the van White Lightening. White Lightening was on its last legs from the get go… Its starter motor was faulty so every time we wanted to start it up we had to do a rolling bump start. This turned out to be quite the stitch up considering I’d never driven a manual before and was constantly stalling the thing.
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