00:00Buggies have been a part of the Dakar since the early days, although only one man has claimed
00:09victory in one, Jean-Louis Schleser in 1999 and 2000. These light, all-terrain vehicles,
00:15generally two-wheel drive, appeared on the first editions. They inspired a generation of rally
00:20ride enthusiasts and buggies continue to feature on the rally through to the modern era. Some of
00:25the early pioneers have spent a lifetime combining their passion for the Dakar and these unique machines.
00:37This is my workshop where I built buggies and, well, I continue to build them. They've all done the Dakar.
00:44Everything here has done the Dakar.
00:47For Hervé Cotel, the story goes back to 1980 when he entered a buggy that he had built himself.
00:55100% homemade. I took the front of a VW Kombi and the back of a VW Kombi. Then I put them together and connected the bars at the top.
01:08Cotel would finish as high as second overall in 1981. Another early innovator was Yves Sunhill,
01:14who turned up to the very first Dakar in 1979 with a self-made buggy, which was just as curious as the man himself.
01:21We've done the last thousand kilometers with Coca-Cola in the clutch.
01:28For his second Dakar in 1980, Sunhill decided the best way to save some weight was to embark on the world's toughest rally without a co-driver.
01:37He entered the rally alone because, as far as he was concerned, a navigator was pointless.
01:47He told me he'd recorded the roadboat notes on a Walkman that played it when he set off.
01:52But the one thing he hadn't anticipated was getting sand into the Walkman, and it stopped working.
01:57So he just followed the heading, and that year he won the two-wheel drive category.
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