Raid 1988

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Raid 1988 Photo Album

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Oodnadatta Track

Rest Stop - Gunbarrel Highway

Sunset at the "Twelve Apostles" on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria

Group photo Raid 88 - Fremantle, W. A. - (missing from picture Peter Epstein and Steve Wedell)

Pictured here on the Oodnadatta Track (l to r) Steve Wedell, Gloria Scott, John Scott, Lance Collins, Anne Obst, Bev Bennet and Chris Bennet, standing behind a rock monument erected by members of the South Australian Citroën Car Club during their survey in 1987.

Rob Norton - 1988 Raid Leader

Raid 88 route map

How not to do it... Unprepared Raid 88 car - pictured here just before the bumper bar was ripped off and the chassis broke in half !

7 days ago

Hi folks, I'm new to this group, but not new to Citroen
Would anyone remember on Raid 88, a 2cv was parked on the London Bridge on the Victorian coast? ... See MoreSee Less

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Yes I was standing on the bridge too

I was also there and stayed in Victoria and spent a lot of time in that area. It wasn't more than a couple of years later it calapsed

Eek. That was obviously before it fell down, stranding a couple on the sea stack!!

1 month ago

2 CARS FOR SALE

Dear raiders,

For those who don’t know me: I ‘m Lucky Luk from Belgium and participated raid 2000, 2004 and 2008. Each time I shipped a car over and sold it afterwards. In 2008 we filled a container with 3 cars. One of them wasn’t used: the red car “Sophie”. I bought the car in 2008 in the UK in good condition. It stayed in the shed of Ralph Hibble until it was registered in WA in 2019.

The other car is “Olga”, Ralph and Hanny owned that car for years in Europe and it was based in the Netherlands. When Ralph decided to sell it, I bought it and brought it home in 2019.
Before shipping it, I did some restoration work: new Burton chassis, new bottom plates, new oversized engine, some paint … The car was shipped in 2019 to Perth and was registered there.

The reason for the shipping was that we planned a relaxed family trip with Shayne Harris and both our families from Darwin to Broome and back to Darwin in 2020. We thought that the raid is good fun for us but not so suited for our children 6 and 7 years old in 2020. To get the cars in Darwin we did a trip with some Belgian friends (some of you will also know Joen Adriaen, raider in 2008) and our Ozzie guides Ralphhibble and ShayneHarris. We travelled from Perth to Darwin through the center. For those who are interested you can see the cars and our story in this movie:
[Lucky Luke & The Bloody Bastards (extended version) - YouTube](www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9UellpDr_s)

The cars performed well until Sophie broke the engine on the Stuart highway from Alice to Darwin, so we towed her in. I shipped a new oversized engine to Darwin and Ralph and Thomas Newsome mounted it in the car in 2021.

Our trip was planned in july/august 2020: the flights were booked, reservations were made. But then came COVID… As you all know the flights were cancelled and the restrictions made it impossible to travel downunder… Now we are planning the trip again in july 2023.

Both cars are registered in NT now and if it all works out I want to sell the cars after our Trip in 2023. The reason why posting this now is with the raid postponed to 2024 it might be interesting for new raiders, or raiders that don’t want to ship cars downunder as throught the years they made it more difficult and expensive to ship and import 2CV’s to Australia.

If you are interested or know somebody that is interested, contact me for more information!

Cheers from Belgium,
Lucky Luk ... See MoreSee Less