After three weeks of waiting, visas running out, the cold weather setting in we made one final attempt at the border. But not before a few modifications!

In the dead of night we approached the small an unassuming border crossing in the North of the Ukraine. As we entered the crossing into no-mans land the whole team felt that same longing dread, how long would this take, would they call central customs and discover our identity… a very nerve racking 7hrs and 10 mins later, Dubrovsky emerged with our papers and asked Jonathan to go inside. He sat in front of the customs official watching stamp after stamp plastered over a bit of paper then that beautiful two letter word….GO!! We were on our way, our rally was back on, Mongolia would get its engine.

And this car was …

Metamorphosis …

Fire equipment removed and stored (somewhere..hmmm)…

Getting ready to leave Donetsk. A note to sponsors, this was a necessary step, we will do our best to get the logo’s printed again for more photo madness.