Lacking Enthusiasm...
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Sideways Tim said:
We have arrived at our digs in Tours for the night. 280 miles today and all I have to show is a slightly sticky throttle. Heat related cable issue I think. Will solve tomorrow.
Modern cars are big aren’t they…
Modern cars are big aren’t they…
Bet those others cannot transport a barrel, a pig and 2cwt of potatoes/eggs/peasants across a ploughed field and allow the driver to wear a big hat.
Sideways Tim said:
We have arrived at our digs in Tours for the night. 280 miles today and all I have to show is a slightly sticky throttle. Heat related cable issue I think. Will solve tomorrow.
Modern cars are big aren’t they…
Mais oui - but I remember moving all sorts of household goods - freezers , washing machines - because even a muppet like me could take the passenger seat out quickly . Or was it the rear one . or both ? Modern cars are big aren’t they…
I do remember cutting a dash in my orange 2CV on a week's salmon fishing on a posh beat of the Tay. Down the bumpy track I'd go , riding the ruts as well as the Range Rovers , sun roof open and 14ft fly rod sticking out like a yacht mast.
coppice said:
Mais oui - but I remember moving all sorts of household goods - freezers , washing machines - because even a muppet like me could take the passenger seat out quickly . Or was it the rear one . or both ?
I do remember cutting a dash in my orange 2CV on a week's salmon fishing on a posh beat of the Tay. Down the bumpy track I'd go , riding the ruts as well as the Range Rovers , sun roof open and 14ft fly rod sticking out like a yacht mast.
I moved house in mine. Slide the boot out from the channel and unbolt the rear screen frame and remove with the whole roof section. It becomes a flat bed pick up truck. It took things as big as sofas, beds and wardrobes.I do remember cutting a dash in my orange 2CV on a week's salmon fishing on a posh beat of the Tay. Down the bumpy track I'd go , riding the ruts as well as the Range Rovers , sun roof open and 14ft fly rod sticking out like a yacht mast.
Very good off road capabilities and great in snow.
21st Century Man said:
I moved house in mine. Slide the boot out from the channel and unbolt the rear screen frame and remove with the whole roof section. It becomes a flat bed pick up truck. It took things as big as sofas, beds and wardrobes.
Very good off road capabilities and great in snow.
Very good off road capabilities and great in snow.
Better in snow than all the various quattros I've owned subsequently.Yertis said:
Better in snow than all the various quattros I've owned subsequently.daqinggregg said:
JuniorD said:
The trip sounds like 20 days of driving, staying in about 20 different hotels, in old, slow and relatively uncomfortable cars. I can see the joy in the outward leg, but not so much the return leg.
Why would the return journey be any different, if the OP has enough time for it, it doesn’t have to be the same route.It’s the journey, that is part of the pleasure; not the destination.
Turbobanana said:
coppice said:
A very good and now sadly late friend of mine had a 2CV in the late Seventies. He was a teacher, and his teacher mate Kevin also had a 2CV . In the long summer holiday , accompanied by their very sexy partners, they'd drive to Provence and spend most of the summer there. My first taste of Chateauneuf du Pape was from a bottle which had travelled home in the 2CV and it was divine.
Well into old fartdom now, I can think of few better summers than being a twenty- something with a hot girlfriend in Provence , travellng en plein air in a 2CV . Cripes , there's something in my eye ...
Great story, coppice.Well into old fartdom now, I can think of few better summers than being a twenty- something with a hot girlfriend in Provence , travellng en plein air in a 2CV . Cripes , there's something in my eye ...
For my own part, I did something similar in 2001 in my SAAB 900 Monte Carlo Convertible, ultimately taking it back to the place it was named after: Monte Carlo. I went with my girlfriend (now wife) and we stopped off en route in the Beaujolais region for "essential supplies".
Highlights were touring the vineyards and tasting a little at each one, lapping the Grand Prix circuit in Monaco (slowly) and attracting more attention on the Croisette in Cannes than any of the Ferraris or Lamborghinis.
Lowlights were the hail damage on the way home near Macon and watching the drama of 9/11 unfold on Sky News in the hotel on the last night, which made the Channel crossing the next morning quite a tense affair.
Pics from before digital photography was much of a thing:
Turbobanana said:
Final piece of useful advice from me: don't forget to drive on the other side of the road over there*
* Unlike the wally in the 205 who nearly piled into me 50m outside the port the first time I ever drove abroad. Unlikely as it may seem I was on the correct (right, right?) side of the road and he, a local, was on the wrong (left, right?) side.
I spent three years working in California, driving everyday and never put a wheel wrong. * Unlike the wally in the 205 who nearly piled into me 50m outside the port the first time I ever drove abroad. Unlikely as it may seem I was on the correct (right, right?) side of the road and he, a local, was on the wrong (left, right?) side.
On the way back to UK rather than take the short way, I went West > Hawaii, again hired car for a few weeks surfing without any issues > Melbourne.
Picked up hire car from airport, drove into the city and turned right into a quiet minor street with central reservation. It took me 100m before I realised I was driving on the right and so was the steering wheel, oops quick U turn time, what an arse.
daqinggregg said:
JuniorD said:
The trip sounds like 20 days of driving, staying in about 20 different hotels, in old, slow and relatively uncomfortable cars. I can see the joy in the outward leg, but not so much the return leg.
Why would the return journey be any different, if the OP has enough time for it, it doesn’t have to be the same route.It’s the journey, that is part of the pleasure; not the destination.
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