Article: The car that waives the rules.(News)

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Daily Mail (London)
Article date:
November 2, 2009
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Byline: Irish Daily Mail Reporter

FOUR intrepid adventurers who set sail from Ireland in a modified Renault Laguna car arrived safely on the Scottish coast at the weekend.

Crowds cheered the men as they pulled into Portpatrick harbour in Galloway almost seven hours after setting off from Donaghadee, Co. Down.

Inspired by BBC's Top Gear programme, Peter Martin, 38, from Bangor, Co. Down, adapted the car - which he bought for [pounds sterling]100 - with buoyancy foam, an outboard motor and a bilge-pump.

With friends Carl McConkey, Rick Miles and Mark Farrell, he took it on trial trips around the Copeland Islands off Co. Down before the ...

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