We always new that Katy had been on her travels from the description and picture that there was on eBay
If you look in the front window there is some more evidence
This is the sticker. From what I can decipher (not reading Arabic) Harasta is the name of a region of Damascus about 6km north of the City centre and there is a Bus station, and more interestingly a Military Hospital
This does make me wonder about her previous life a little more
From another scrap of paper in the back we ascertained a name and address from someone who had owned Katy and we were able to use the Internet to find Toby who bought he from the family of the lady who had taken her to Africa and had unfortunately passed away since
Toby told us that there was a folder full of paper work relating to the trip so I made contact back with the person I bought her from and Toby sold her to and he's agreed to look for it and send it on
Toby also told us that he's had the alarm and stereo fitted which explains why there is a state of the art stereo in a 1988 land Rover
Regards
Andy
It's over 30 years since I used to read Arabic on a regular basis, but the bottom line contains the two phones numbers shown top left. Numbers in Arabic read from left to right whereas script runs from right to left. You would not believe how useful that "quirk" was when designing spreadsheets in the days before Excel.
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Hi Steve
ReplyDeleteThanks for that input
I actually did manages to get a translation from a colleague at work.I put it in another post which, but I didn't think of adding a note here. The full translation can be seen at >http://landroverkaty.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/in-prior-post-about-history-of-katy-put.html
Regards
Andy