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#B4B12: Join us to help two charities

It feels like only a few days since a knackered Batch and I were stuck in a lift at the end of the first day of Bangers4BEN 2011. But today we had to put that horrible memory behind us as we had our first meeting to plan for 2012’s event with BEN. This year, B4B [...]

	#B4B: Teams return
AFTER four days on the road and 1,700 miles, the Bangers4BEN 2011 teams have returned home. More than 30 teams took part this year and each one blasted through France, through the Mont Blanc tunnel and into Italy to reach the home of Ferrari. Well, sort of… We saw teams entering a wide variety of [...]

	#B4B: Ark Royal is saved
HMS Ark Royal’s journey back to Blighty has been saved by some Bangers4BEN team spirit! Since we broke down on Saturday, countless numbers of people on Twitter, and in real life, have been trying to help us – and it seems they have just succeeded. Fortunately for us, parts company Klarius is along for the [...]

	#B4B: Teams at Ferrari!
THERE’S good news and bad news on day two of Bangers4BEN. First the positive – we’ve made it to Maranello! Currently, I’m sat with the balcony doors open of our Maranello Palace room, which is just a stone’s throw away from the Ferrari factory, it’s 23 degrees and there are two plonkers lapping the roundabout [...]

	#B4B: Ferrari experience
WE’RE here finally in Maranello, the home of Ferrari, and it couldn’t have been easier. You’ll have already have seen in Baggott’s blog that we have experienced what Bangers4BEN is all about. Rob Brendon and Wags Firmin offered us the unblemished and brand-new looking rear seats of their surprisingly luxurious Hyundai XG30 so we could [...]

		02.02.09: This white stuff? Is it going to be a problem?
		AS the snow falls the panic begins to set it – are we really going to drive to John O’Groats? Our Bangers4BEN challenge looked decidedly more difficult the second I glanced out of the window this morning and saw the south coast had been dusted with the white stuff. I’ve spent a frantic day trying [...]
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		01.02.09: Our bangers4BEN are starting to arrive!
		AND so it begins… Bangers4BEN really has taken off. Look, we’ve got a logo and everything! There’s even been a few cars arriving and a change of personnel to report. Ok, let me explain. After deputy editor Rich was called up for work duties which clashed with part of the event we were down to [...]
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		28.01.09: The rules and route of Bangers4BEN
		RIGHT… I think it’s about time we worked out some rules for our upcoming Bangers for BEN challenge. I’ve been thinking about it for the last few weeks – in between desperate phone calls to contacts in search of a car – and have come up with the following. Firstly the budget – it’s £200 [...]
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		16.01.09: BEN Bangers bid hots up
		CAN you get addicted to eBay? I think you can. I am sure if I Googled it they’d be a name for it. Hang on I will… Okay, so it seems there’s not exactly a name for it, but rather a large number of people with the same problem as me. But the thing is [...]
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		13.01.09: Don’t worry, I have a plan
		Don’t worry lads I have a plan… Conversations that start that way often aren’t received with the enthusiasm I’d hope for in the Car Dealer office, but this one was different… It’s the plan of all plans! Just like all good ones it was hatched after a night on the sauce. RTotY helper Dan Harris [...]
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