Richardson Pan-American Highway Expedition of 1940-1941. BBC documentary.

[Tony oily bike]

According to what I spotted on the Hemmings website, the BBC are going to be working on a documentary program about this epic 15,000 mile trip, which took place more than 70 years ago.

See more at: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/11/27/recreating-history-the-bbc-wants-your-1941-plymouth-sedan/#sthash.uyCYRqeh.dpuf

From the website:

It was a white 1941 Plymouth P11 Deluxe four-door sedan, with special equipment including 18-inch “high-clearance” wheels, that adventurers Sullivan Richardson, Arnold Whitaker and Kenneth Van Hee drove from Detroit, Michigan all the way – much of it through uncharted territory - to Magallanes, Chile. This was a distance of more than 15,000 miles that was covered in eight months.

Photo courtesy Jim Benjaminson. (from the Hemmings site)

 

[Manky Monkey]

That sounds interesting.