James May said he does not want to see the car restored (Image: YouTube / Alaska to Africa)
“I think it would be wrong to deny that part of the world that car just because of some nostalgic, sentimental whim.
“It has to stay there, it has to keep being mended and being mended until it s just a shell that s running around.
“That s where it lives, it s like putting an animal in a zoo bringing it back here.”
The Botswana Special saw the trip travel from the Zimbabwean border to the Namibian border.
The journey took them across several key areas such as the Okavango Delta and the Makgadikgadi salt pans.
A two-time world heavyweight champion and the man behind the George Foreman grill, âBig Georgeâ turns 72 today and the chances are heâs celebrating with the purchase of yet another Corvette. The entrepreneurial boxer has owned dozens of them, and many other Chevrolets besides, but his first love was a convertible Volkswagen Beetle.
After a troubled childhood, the Texan took up amateur boxing at 18 and won gold at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The following year, aged 20, he turned pro and took his first heavyweight title in 1973 in Jamaica with a stunning second-round knockout of the then-undefeated Joe Frazier. Rolls-Royces and heavily customised American luxury cars followed. He defended the belt twice before suffering his first professional loss, to Muhammed Ali, in the iconic Rumble In The Jungle in Zaire in 1974. Foreman retired a few years later after a religious epiphany and became an ordained Christian minister before making a successful comeback to t
Today’s Nineties model is … neither of those things.
After the initial Quattroporte’s run as a legitimate and very early example of a super sedan, the model (like its parent company) fell on hard times. After the first generation wrapped up production in 1969, Maserati built a couple of special one-off examples for some dignitaries, then threw in the towel on sedans.
Quattroporte did not return until 1976, and when it did it was a very different sort of vehicle. The large sedan was front-drive and shared a platform with the decidedly non-sporty Citroën SM. It also borrowed its V6 engine from the Maserati Merak. Citroën was sort of out of money at the time, and the Quattroporte’s second album was around for just three model years and sold in very limited markets.