2008 road trip

[ric04vrs]

put me down as being interested , 11 months to save up aswell

[Shifty]

I think you can count me on on this. Looks too good too miss

[MissKia]

Wow... looks fantastic. But £1300... that's a d****** to some people

[Stuart_J]

Originally Posted by MissKia

Wow... looks fantastic. But £1300... that's a ******* to some people

Cannonball £4500 + fuel + + +

[Stuart_J]

Originally Posted by Shifty

It was my body's coping mechanism

Pat - 3600 miles for us northerners, in 9 days, in a Skoda. Gonna have to say it seems a bit much tbh.

Gumball/Canonball is 3000 miles, usually done in a very high powered fast car, in Stuart's case a very fast Skoda. Id be interested in his input in the milage and route before I commit if I'm honest, as I think a convoy of cars doing so much distance in so little time might not be as easy as you imagine. Just my 2p's worth. And Im quite often mistaken lol.


PS Thanks Len, but I'm kidding. As Loz says, something I would have to drive myself.

Mileage wont be a problem if your disciplined, I went to france with 15 other cars a few weekends ago, we left Friday 3pm, back home Monday 7pm, 1940 miles & had a great time with loads of time for socialising & drinking

Anyone whos driven on the Continent will tell you that driving is so easy as long as you avoid Holiday time etc, Cities are like cities anywhere but certainly no worse than the UK. On the Motorways you can cruise at 80 legally & 90 - 100 dosent attract too much attention, if caught at that speed the fines arent too bad.

If you drive at high speed you knock the MPG & have to refuel more, its suprising how much distance you can cover whilst others are refuelling, On the Cannonballs a lot of the Exotics could only do 200 miles between refuelling so whilst they went like the preverbial they were for ever filling up

As I said you just need to be disciplined, fuel the cars just before you stop for the night, leave on time in the morning, dont try & stick together, run ideally in groups of 2 or 3, 10-15 cars trying to stay together, especially through towns is a no no, 10-15 cars refuelling at the same garage with all the chit chat can take an hour. Also big groups attract the Police. If someone has a problem dont all stay to help, it only needs a couple at most. If the whole group stops everytime something happens it just adds hours to the trip. Whoever goes make sure you are totally self sufficent, prep the car properly before you go, preferably a full service 3-4 weeks before, time to fix anything they find & time to find anything they fooked up on the service.
All people need to know is where they need to be in the evening, a suggested route & "possibly" a suggested town to stop for lunch.

ALWAYS get a decent recovery insurance & read the small print, make sure it includes a hire car,make sure you can take the car from country to country, some of the cheaper ones only allow a flight home, some only give a car for up to 3 days. The Skoda one through the AA only gave 3 days hire & you had to pay the rest. I did the P****D off customer bit to Skoda UK when the Superb broke & they paid the rest. The RAC one now used might be better but I doubt it.

With all Governments appearing to be anti car it wont be many years before trips like this cant be done & Im guessing only a couple of years before points can be awarded for motoring offences comitted on the Continent so if your thinking about it dont leave it too long.

Ive done 4 Cannonballs, 2 Furballs & will do the Furball again next year, its probably going to be September so it precludes me from joining you but Im happy to give advice any time.

[smstext]

Originally Posted by Stuart_J

Cannonball £4500 + fuel + + +

Yeah rich mans car race i dont see any multi millionaires on here, if so they be tuning bugattis and cars like that. well my 2penceworth.

[irin]

Postmanpat can you post a map of the proposal route?
Using viamichelin site it is hard for me to find a few parts of itinery.

[postmanpat]

Originally Posted by irin

Postmanpat can you post a map of the proposal route?
Using viamichelin site it is hard for me to find a few parts of itinery.

Try the RAC route planner RAC Route planner Or AA route planner Route Planner (Europe) : Maps and directions - The AA I've been using the AA road atlas of Europe but don't have the kit to scan maps.

[simonsheil]

Originally Posted by irin

Postmanpat can you post a map of the proposal route?
Using viamichelin site it is hard for me to find a few parts of itinery.

Here is a shot at it.

[Stuart_J]

Originally Posted by smstext

Yeah rich mans car race i dont see any multi millionaires on here, if so they be tuning bugattis and cars like that. well my 2penceworth.

Rich boys = Gumball, £20,000 = fuel +++

[irin]

Thanks !
Viamichelin is good but I did't know the countries where to look for locations . Now everithing is clear!
It could be added in the first post the border crossing points (my sugestion)

[smstext]

just an idea but how about a smaller trip to czech at the same time and meet up with you lot when you get to munich area for the drive back???

like a said its just an idea for those who cant afford the main trip.

[postmanpat]

Originally Posted by smstext

just an idea but how about a smaller trip to czech at the same time and meet up with you lot when you get to munich area for the drive back???

like a said its just an idea for those who cant afford the main trip.

Originally Posted by postmanpat

In the event that there is also Cz trip taking place I am planning on setting off on the Morning of Friday the 5th of September allowing anyone who wishes to travel from Zell am See to Prague in time for the Sat. Dosky meet and join up with that.

I would imagine there will be more interest in joining a Prague trip in Prague for the Skoda meet than just for the trip home, and this is reflected in the proposed dates for the road trip Don't know if anyone as put themselves forward yet for the organisation of a Cz trip tho (well volunteered )

[smstext]

no probs, just my 2 pence worth

[Loz]

cool, countries I've never been to aswell!!

[simonsheil]

DAY FOUR FRANCE - ITALY(Courmayeur) - SWITZERLAND (Sion)

09.00 Gap - Grenoble 65 miles (Route Napoleon) (France)
10.45 Grenoble - Courmayeur 121 miles
12.00 - 12.45 Moutiers lunch (France)
14.45 Courmayeur - Sion 60 miles (Mont Blanc Tunnel) (Italy - France - Switzerland)
16.30 Sion switzerland)

IS this planned over the st bernard pass? just wondering

[postmanpat]

Originally Posted by simonsheil

IS this planned over the st bernard pass? just wondering

No using the Mt. Blanc Tunnel, col des Montets, col de la Forclaz.

Slightly shorter and we get to go through a big tunnel

[MissKia]

Oooh, just looked at the map, we'll be that close to Italy... can't we just 'pop' to Milan.. pleeeeeaaaaaassssseeeeee

[cheezemonkhai]

Originally Posted by MissKia

Oooh, just looked at the map, we'll be that close to Italy... can't we just 'pop' to Milan.. pleeeeeaaaaaassssseeeeee

What do a bit of shopping

[mrspostmanpat]

Have arranged to have hols with hubby so I can go on this trip and get the bejeezus scared out of me , just got to get rid of sprog and dog now. Any volunteer babysitters out there? Rates of pay pretty good