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Inspired by “The Science of Sleep”, we convered my car in cardboard, drew odd slogans and ventured into the city to catch the sights.

It took about 3 hours to completely cover the car, and was quite a gruelling process, since we had to cut sections the same shape as parts of the body work, stick it with masking tape to the car itself, and then a mixture of masking and parcel tape to the other cardboard around it. I never envisaged having lots of white bits all over it holding it all together, but the final product did look quite funny. It was important that everything was taped down securely as we didnt want any air to get under the cardboard and rip it off if we went a little too fast or the wind caught it.

Decorating was a more tricky job, since once the cardboarding had been done we were a little unsure what to put on the sides. Award for best slogan went to Haj for “World Contribution”.

Here is a video of us leaving base and zipping into London. Note the cartoon wheels. We made sure the cardboard hubcaps were slightly off-round so that when spinning at speed they went a little higgledy-piggeldy.

Unfortunately we did get into a spot of bother with the Police just near Tower bridge. Luckily nothing came of it since they really did have nothing on us. They even followed us as we drove round Westminster Green. Award for best premise on which to arrest someone went to the Police for “Driving with an unsafe load”.

The best picture of the day was taken right in front of Big Ben. The best part is on the right hand side, where tourists are actually taking pictures of us instead of the main attraction.