Bill and Fred's Excellent Adventure

[john]

(With apologies to Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter)
My first names William .....

Well, four and a half years after buying his Corse Stratos replica on eBay, Frederic finally has his dream car back home in Albi, France.
The big adventure started on Friday morning when Frederic arrived at Manchester Airport to collect his car from the workshop in Winsford where it has resided for the past two and a half of those years.
After a couple of previous visits during which we trial fitted Frederic into the car and seats I was still a bit concerned he would actually be able to drive it. He's a tall lad you see!
Anyway we managed to get him into both the driving and passenger seats for our shared drive south.
Setting off at 1.00pm we made our way through the M6 congestion and arrived at Portsmouth in good time for the overnight ferry to Le Havre.
Lights were a bit dim?
After security decided that two blokes driving the most conspicuous car imaginable might well have something to hide we turned the engine off while they made a cursory examination of the car.
And then it wouldn't start again!
So we push started and got on board the ferry.
Well it wouldn't start again the next morning so the good folks of Brittany Ferries brought out their starter pack and off we went.
We made good progress South through Normandy (good tank country) and arrived at Le Mans for a lunch break. Forseeing that the car might still not start we parked at the top of the hill behind the museum while we ate lunch.
Then off again to arrive at La Chateaux de La Fleunie in the Dordogne for an overnight stop.
After a peaceful night and excellent food we were off again thanks to the helpful owners of the chateaux and another jump start and good photo opportunities in the chateaux grounds.
It's not difficult to get help with one of these cars is it?
We arrived in Albi by lunchtime and tomorrow we will get to the bottom of the charging problem which is likely to be the three year old battery which has never done any work!