RE: Pic of The Week: PH Fleet C63 In Reims

[skOOby]

thewheelman said:

That does look very good in white. Too many in silver for my liking

Thanks, thought the same about silver too, pain to keep clean mind, but worth it!

[Pixel Pusher]

53 years between shots. Picture on the right courtesy of PHer Williamp.

[blueST]

Ooh, can I join in?

[Blackaura]

I loved that car, spent an hour around MBW driver course in this and ever since this has been my primary goal! 0 -60 in 4.7 and you can take a whole family and your two GSD's with you. It had the AMG performance pack also. Hit 90 ont the straight!!

[Rallye James]

Oooh, I've got some like that somewhere



Slightly different angle to the norm


Some local Clio owners turned up for their weekly meet and gave us croissants


Going back when I'm passing through in May

[Barry Ashcroft]

The Rest

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[James Dean]

Deranged Granny said:

What do you mean by that?

I must be psychic
Before clicking the link I thought to myself, that's probably that video with the F40 and F50, great video.

[CMWS4]

Feel ashamed to call myself a car/driving enthusiast...I've been through and stopped at Reims no less than about 6 times in the past 5 years...including a tour around Europe in my S4, a random trip to Stelvio from Nurburging in my S4...and even more bizarrely a recent trip to Slovakia in a Passat



Have a feeling I'll be taking my Polo GT there this summer to make up for my stupidity

(don't ask about the randomness of the cars :P )

[gumsie]

skOOby said:

thewheelman said:

That does look very good in white. Too many in silver for my liking

Thanks, thought the same about silver too, pain to keep clean mind, but worth it!

Me too, I was even beginning to dislike silver in silver.

[Deranged Granny]

James Dean said:

I must be psychic
Before clicking the link I thought to myself, that's probably that video with the F40 and F50, great video.

Oh I see, I was confused by the smiley

[tenwives]

you could make some interesting anagrams out of that number plate

[Furyblade_Lee]

every year our Euro pilgrimage takes on a visit to Reims you can still do "a lap" of sorts but it is in no way truly authentic as roundabouts / mains roads have aletered it. It is quite a long straight and once sure the Police are not about, you can hit some quite mad speeds along there.... :-) The acoustics defy belief, if you climb up into the old grandstands even a French diesel van doing 60mph sounds quite cool. Bike engined cars doing nearly 140mph are something else!!!!

[Hoady]

Ah, go on then:

[Skinnnnnyboy]

soad said:

Could have picked a better location - what's with the run down shop fronts?
Suppose motor makes up for it

You obviously don't know what that place used to be..

[Bobbywhacker]

plenty more where that came from.... just not on this PC :-(

[g3org3y]

I'll be passing through here in a few days (currently in Italy). What do I need to put into the Sat Nav to ensure I don't miss it?

The auto museum mentioned earlier is also highly recommended in the Rough Guide so time permitting I hope to get a look at that too.

[Rallye James]

Search for the village of Gueux in the satnav, there's a straight road between two roundabouts, labelled as the D27 on my TomTom leading out of the village to the north east. The grandstand and pit garages are half way down that road, you can't miss them!

Whilst I'm here, from the latest visit...

Edited by Rallye James on Sunday 24th July 21:54

[g3org3y]

Rallye James said:

Search for the village of Gueux in the satnav, there's a straight road between two roundabouts, labelled as the D27 on my TomTom leading out of the village to the north east. The grandstand and pit garages are half way down that road, you can't miss them!

Thanks very much!

Just had a couple of days by Lake Como including a jaunt over to Lake Lugano in Switzerland. Today drove from Como to Annecy (which incidentally is a lovely town) via the Petit St Bernard Pass. Properly brilliant, roof down. E30 was absolutely spot on.

Dijon tomorrow and Reims the day after. Back to England on Sunday.

[Rallye James]

g3org3y said:

Thanks very much!

Just had a couple of days by Lake Como including a jaunt over to Lake Lugano in Switzerland. Today drove from Como to Annecy (which incidentally is a lovely town) via the Petit St Bernard Pass. Properly brilliant, roof down. E30 was absolutely spot on.

Dijon tomorrow and Reims the day after. Back to England on Sunday.

You're doing a similar route to the one I did two months ago then. Between Dijon and Reims, head along the old D996 and D396 most of the way, quickest, quietest and most fun route between the two

[g3org3y]

Rallye James said:

g3org3y said:

Thanks very much!

Just had a couple of days by Lake Como including a jaunt over to Lake Lugano in Switzerland. Today drove from Como to Annecy (which incidentally is a lovely town) via the Petit St Bernard Pass. Properly brilliant, roof down. E30 was absolutely spot on.

Dijon tomorrow and Reims the day after. Back to England on Sunday.

You're doing a similar route to the one I did two months ago then. Between Dijon and Reims, head along the old D996 and D396 most of the way, quickest, quietest and most fun route between the two

There are some really really nice roads here. We've tried to avoid the toll motorways as much as possible and really been rewarded (apart from the 90 Euro fine for overtaking over a solid central line!). E30 hasn't put a foot wrong. Drive back from Reims to Dunkerque tomorrow. End of holiday

Thanks to those regarding the track location advice. Was fairly easy to find. Drove into Reims and set the sat nav to Gueux. Sat nav took us out of Reims and the pit lane was quite obvious on the N31. Got (quite) a few pics while the gf waited in the car.