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00:00So we're here in Telford, Stafford Park at Emery's Builder's Merchants Timber

00:05and we're with, go on introduce yourself boss. So I'm Richard Revins. And who are

00:09these reprobates you got here? So we've got Andy from Total Property who's kindly

00:14sponsored us on the side of the car as well as well as getting that BHGK involved

00:18for his son. So it's a massive kind of thing to be fair, it's a big charity event.

00:23So what are you doing then? I mean it involves a car so where are you going with it?

00:28Well it's more like if you've ever seen a Top Gear Grand Tour kind of thing.

00:31Okay yeah. So we've bought a run round and as you can see we've plastered with a lot of

00:38sponsors. Has this been bought specially for the challenge then? It has, we're doing it across

00:43I think it's eight total charities in total. Yeah yeah. Well we've made it nine now.

00:47Yeah. So we're starting off on Stoke tomorrow morning. Yeah.

00:54First night it's in Dusseldorf. Then we've got a travel orbit back to Berlin, up to Malmö

00:59which is in Sweden. So that's going to be a long haul I think. Yeah. Down to Hamburg and

01:05the last night in Amsterdam. I think it's about 250 miles a day. Wow.

01:09Yeah yeah. So it's a good run. So that first run, so you're starting Stoke?

01:14I'm starting Stoke. Down to Dover. Yeah. My ferries I think about half 11, 11. Yeah.

01:20And then that's it then. It's all races go. Wow. I think we're 13 to 31 or 32 and we've got

01:2560, 70 other different merchants, suppliers, we've got everyone involved. It's a massive, massive thing to be fair.

01:32Fantastic. And can people track kind of your journey? Yeah. You've got a Facebook group or something going on.

01:37So Pave Stone Rally. So they've got a social media page on your Facebook. Yeah.

01:43And across the board which you can, which will be daily updates. Day one all the way to day five.

01:48It's fancy dress every day. So it's gonna, it's gonna be, yeah. So what's it called?

01:53Pave Stone? Pave Stone Rally. Pave Stone Rally. Cool. So have you got your fancy dress kit sorted?

01:58We've got a different one for each day. Have you? The first day we've got the minions. Yeah.

02:02The second day we've done a, so we've been to charity shops. Yeah, yeah.

02:07And we've bought each other outfits so no one knows what each other's wearing. Fantastic.

02:11Day three we're looking at, I think we've got the Swedish national football team being in Sweden.

02:17So kind of thought theme wise. Day four we've all got Disney princess outfits. Cool.

02:23So I imagine people will be quite excited to see that one.

02:26So how many miles are you gonna, by the time you get back?

02:30Roughly two and a half thousand. Two and a half thousand, yeah.

02:32How many miles has this got on it? 178,000. Has it? So it's got a, it's got a long way to go.

02:38So how confident are you? Well, I'm much more confident in our car than our other team's car.

02:45Well, we know, we know, you know the world of builders, merchants and timber but

02:49any of you any good at mechanics? Well, luckily to be fair, we've got, yeah, I think we've,

02:55Yeah, you'll be alright. I'd like to think across the board really. Yeah.