Monday 17th October 1994
Taxicab driver Jeremy Levine returned to London from a round-trip journey to Cape Town, South Africa. Passengers Mark Aylett and Carlos Aresse had paid £40,000 for the 21,691-mile trip, setting a world record for the longest-known taxicab ride. The route, through Eastern Europe, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and down into Africa, was recently adopted by the Historic Endurance Rallying Organization for their London to Cape Town Classic Reliability Trial.