Did you know that Fiat Panda floats?
24 08 07 - 11:12 Category: default.
We did not, but now we do thanks to the mongolian rivers.....after being lost in the desert for some hours we finally got our way out (moment in which we broke the starting engine of one of the pandas...).And the way out was directly pointing to a huge river we were supposed to cross (water getting at the height of Diego's belt in some places). Problema? of course not! there is a tractor towing cars across the river... but is broken.... problema? of course not, there were some other mongolralliers and some local people that explained us the strategy:
switch off the engine
put a sock in the exhaust
push the panda into the current
let it drift away (do not worry, it floats for some time)
continue pushing till the other side
try to switch on the engine and pray
Result, some wet clothes, some gallons of water inside the cars, a lot of adrenaline and two working cars (kind of clean) on the other side of the river. Only after two hours of work and 5 rivers crossed.
PS: no pictures of his one, as you know the camera got stolen. Our MP3 players got also stolen in Altai..... but we still have the passports
