Comments on: Mental Break: Safari Rally

By: bill okeefe

bill okeefe — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:51:03 +0000

I found a company that filmed the Safari in the 1980s …they have hours of material of everyone in those years
http://www.brunswickfilms.com
Bill

By: Sura Mbaya

Sura Mbaya — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:12:14 +0000

Holy ### - I am late to the party lakini no problem….

My man was Bjorn Waldagad (I dont care about how they spell it with those tu-dots over every vowel). That jamaa was a total Spartan. No resting; just showing akina Patrick Njiru all the dust in the world.

But the true Safo moment was those little white liners in the Coca Cola bottles called “pa”. Walala!!! Pa! You play your pumz muzuri you kamata the colored one and you are golden…

By: proudkikuyuwoman

proudkikuyuwoman — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:04:52 +0000

I was in the village and it was always fun to sometimes wake up in the dead of night to catch the rally. Sometimes we missed church over Easter, just when the roads were at their muddiest.

By: Erick

Erick — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:34:39 +0000

Sheka Mehta and Joginder Singh forever! And the wire cars? Wow, I could only admire one of our friends who had a rubber band tire suspension system! Can’t remember how Johnathan T fared when he joined the Rally, was it rigged in his favor ?

I’ve been away for quite a while, when did Safari Rally stop?

By: Mkalimani

Mkalimani — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:58:07 +0000

Some of the funniest aspects were when the VOK announcers wrongly pronounced names like B-Jorn Waaldegard.
But this also brings back to memory the creativeness of kids as we used to build rally cars with matope, cardboards and wires. And each safo was well organized with check points and winner would get pens and books, all organized by 10 year olds. Those were the days.

By: kenyanobserver

kenyanobserver — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:15:21 +0000

Back then this was some serious business - the scorecard, sharp pencils, late nights and early mornings by the radio, cross-checking with buddies to make sure we had the latest info. It was great.

For me, Bjorn Waaldegard was the man to beat.

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:04:32 +0000

Vic Preston Jr. was My Guy.
Gal i rem. dozing off in class during the day coz the whole night was spent kwa Baro. kids in kenya right now are totally missing out.
do you rem. the mikebe safo cars boys made kwa Esto? halafu you have to run while dragging it? in other words, the fastest runner won the race, not the car… memories

By: 31337

31337 — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:58:19 +0000

there was this one year they passed by my grandmothers farm. the cars, the noise, the dust, awesome! good times.

By: AfroM

AfroM — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:41:57 +0000

Juha Kankunnen was my fave. Though Joginder Singh was also memorable. Just this past weekend D was telling us a storo about Joginder stuffing grass into his tyres so he could finish the race, ati it helped him ‘fly’. Yani the overactive imaginations!

By: Linda O

Linda O — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:38:56 +0000

And can forget the chille who represented for all women! Linda Morgan yawa!