Posted on 06/13/2007 9:14:34 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge
Organizers of the modified-car excursion across Europe insisted that ModBall 2007 was "neither a rally nor a race." The German police on Monday afternoon, however, begged to differ. And the inaugural event, with its 77 cars and 143 participants -- most of them from Britain -- was shut down on just the second of a planned seven legs across Europe.
The German autobahn police began getting reports on Monday afternoon of cars racing south near Düsseldorf. Drivers reported several cars -- each with similar stickers and numbers -- bombing down the highway with little regard for life and limb, some recklessly passing on the right. One driver even reported seeing a ModBall participant hanging out of a car window filming his fellow racers.
Cops stopped the ModBall auto rally near Cologne on Monday afternoon.
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No hard feelings mate - we love to see our german bentleys, rolls royes and mini coopers in berlin :P
i’d be long dead...
No rice burners in that picture - although I am not to sure about the white one - could be Opel or Vauxshall (GM).
One is a beamer, one is a peugot and there’s a alpha romeo to the right.
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