Shev and Zee
Point man was the CEO of LAY records Layi Oke Salako, driving a 1.4L Skoda Fabia a 5 speed manual putting out 75bhp, cleanly followed by Jigga driving the Green Hornet, a 1999 Toyota Camry V6 with 197bhp, Okufi who had as his Co-Pilot; Mad man Dapo Adisa drove a Skoda Octavia MPI, with Tip-tronic transmission putting out 101bhp. whiplash Olasemo dipo drove the Coja BMW 3 series 1.8; BMW's Horse power values are irrelevant because they're so well built a straight 6 BM will out manoeuvre and then out run many V8's.
Such was the convoy line till we got to Epe, where the gas guzzler of the group; the Hornet had to fill its belly. we were pulled over several times by the 'Capable' men of the Nigeria Police who insisted we shared some of our Beer fortune in the trunk with them. we definitely declined and opted to pay a fine of 200card per car.
As we left the coastal town of Epe, Doc. Okufi took point as the fuel sipping Fabia could not just take the pace of the cars behind it. much to the apprehension of a few in the convoy Okufi did excellently well. He was so good that i had to flag him down to slow the pace as the other two cars, the Fabia and the BMW were struggling to keep up. The reason being the road between Epe and Ijebu Ode was really rough and as such there was a lot of braking going, this didn't go down very well with the Fabia and the BMW as they had to shift gears frequently.
The Ijebu Ode- Ibadan leg had a much better stretch of Road, and soon it became a two horse race between the Octavia and the Hornet. The fuel gains Layi experienced during the week in traffic could not compensate for the lack of power on the open stretch of Road. I was Jigga's Co-pilot and i soon became bored and i guess a few others too, Layi took Jigga on the outer lane and was now in pole position 2, we dropped to third. Layi was hungry for bragging rights and soon overtook his bigger and much powerful sibling the octavia to take pole position.
At that point i knew the prefect scene had been drafted to show "there's no replacement for displacement", (though the oldest, Jigga's car had the biggest engine) a tiny stetch of road opened up and in 1 clean swoop JIgga opened the taps and cleaned out the octavia. Layi had gained a little advantage but the lack of real power from that miserly engine failed and with very little effort the green Hornet was back at in front.
The CEO says he was doing 150KM/h when we blew past and at the time i begged Jigga to ease up a bit so we don't get lost as we didn't know the way, he'd clocked 185Km/h.
At that point, there was no rattle and no obvious sign that this green baby could not attain its 220Kmh limit.....
What ever the Japanese have done, they've definitely done very well!!!!!!!
Yo-ishnai, yo ikangnai
From L-R: Jigga, Sheriff, Okufi, Olasemo, Dapo Adisa, Vas1, Jide Nigwo