Le Mans 24 2014 - What are you driving?

[Roverload]

LeoZwalf said:

hopefully you have time to get it fixed or sort out a replacement car? Being an ex-Rover guy I understand the head gasket fun (although none of my Rovers suffered this fate!) so hopefully you can get it sorted. Sorry but I cannot offer you transport, I'm coming from Holland and my two mates from UK in a Merc SL so only two seats (and on Weds).

Best of luck and keep us posted as to how you get on. Beers on us in Maison Blanche if you make it!

confused now, compression test was fine. Now got a caliper binding up instead! So tonight I'm stripping down the rear axle in the rain. I'll hold you to that, keep an eye out for a sunspot yellow mk1 ZS 180 and the beers are on you ��

[Roverload]

LeoZwalf said:

hopefully you have time to get it fixed or sort out a replacement car? Being an ex-Rover guy I understand the head gasket fun (although none of my Rovers suffered this fate!) so hopefully you can get it sorted. Sorry but I cannot offer you transport, I'm coming from Holland and my two mates from UK in a Merc SL so only two seats (and on Weds).

Best of luck and keep us posted as to how you get on. Beers on us in Maison Blanche if you make it!

confused now, compression test was fine. Now got a caliper binding up instead! So tonight I'm stripping down the rear axle in the rain. I'll hold you to that, keep an eye out for a sunspot yellow mk1 ZS 180 and the beers are on you ��

[Roverload]

LeoZwalf said:

hopefully you have time to get it fixed or sort out a replacement car? Being an ex-Rover guy I understand the head gasket fun (although none of my Rovers suffered this fate!) so hopefully you can get it sorted. Sorry but I cannot offer you transport, I'm coming from Holland and my two mates from UK in a Merc SL so only two seats (and on Weds).

Best of luck and keep us posted as to how you get on. Beers on us in Maison Blanche if you make it!

confused now, compression test was fine. Now got a caliper binding up instead! So tonight I'm stripping down the rear axle in the rain. I'll hold you to that, keep an eye out for a sunspot yellow mk1 ZS 180 and the beers are on you ��

[geordieexpat]

fatboy18 said:

geordieexpat said:

myself and le Sagaris will be heading to Le Mans

Nice Don1 is also driving his Sagaris, get your self over to the GBW on Friday, we will be there

Think myself in white Sag and another Sag in Lambo green will at the GBW, so hope to see you there

[Yoof]

A pair of MRC fettled Audis (B7 RS4 & B8 S4) and a Jag S-Type, heading over on the tunnel Wednesday morning

First LM24 trip for all of us, staying in Tertre Rouge

[petewaugh]

Going down in the wife's new car (without the wife!) best of both worlds!

Not that I had Le Mans in mind when I bought her it or anything.....

[HoHoHo]

Not taking my DD



But taking this



I'll be dry when it rains and will not be fined or lose my license

[VW sales]

Will taking this

[VW sales]

Hopefully the view as you go passed me on the way down toot as you pass

[Storer]

VW sales said:

Hopefully the view as you go passed me on the way down toot as you pass

If it is then you are on the wrong side of the road..............

[turbo-ww]

jamiebae said:

I'm in a boring but comfortable car this year - lots of space, cruise, climate, auto, BOSE stereo and a diesel engine. Of course I'd rather be in an Elise, but sadly this is my only option this year.

Being there is more important than what you came in.


Just

[thegill]

Jurassic Park Nissan Micra is out of hibernation, rewired and ready for the 300 mile journey down to London tomorrow.

[White-Noise]

LeoZwalf said:

My 10th Le Mans and second time in this:



Will be in Maison Blanche with two mates who are most likely coming in a SL 500. Come and say hello Also please ask the SL owner if it's the V12, he loves that!

We really are the height of sophistication. Motor home really does make life a lot easier you should have got one years ago mate.

[HoHoHo]

White-Noise said:

LeoZwalf said:

My 10th Le Mans and second time in this:



Will be in Maison Blanche with two mates who are most likely coming in a SL 500. Come and say hello Also please ask the SL owner if it's the V12, he loves that!

We really are the height of sophistication. Motor home really does make life a lot easier you should have got one years ago mate.

We started using a motorhome about 5 years ago after the drenching we got and being up to our knees in mud

Brilliant, and a 7 birth between 4 people makes life vert comfortable.

Sure I can't whizz down in my M5 but we all go together and it's now part of the Le Mans experience. Airtrack has great pitches with electricity, more than sufficient hot clean showers and loads of toilets.

[WildCards]

Stickers have been ordered for the fast sofa. It's first Le Mans, hopefully it'll prove more reliable than it's predecessor (00 9-5 Aero Estate) which lost oil and buggered a big end bearing on the way back last year.

[SevenR]

Got a litte story for you. In 1979 my family were going on holiday to France. My dad had bought a new Renault 16 TX but was unsure about taking it on the trip as he'd only bought it 3 days before we went. So he borrowed his mates Saab 99......
The gearbox blew itself to bits in France in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.
No Saab dealers in France. My dad had to stop a passing car to ask for a lift and myself, my mum and my brother hid in the broken down Saab till he returned. My mum confessed to me years later she thought we would never see him again. But he managed to get back ok with the help of the very nice guy who owned the campsite we were heading to.
Anyway, after several trips back and forth on the hovercrafts to Dover and back to collect parts (not one Saab dealer in France IIRC), and hundreds and hundreds of pounds later, the oldman fixed the Saab and when we arrived in the UK we got the car on the Motortrain to bring it home to Glasgow.
Funny story now, cause on reflection, the 16 could have completed destroyed itself in the most remote village in France but we would still have been quicker and cheaper rebuilding it than the Saab.
Changed days indeed.

[RKi]

thegill said:

Jurassic Park Nissan Micra is out of hibernation, rewired and ready for the 300 mile journey down to London tomorrow.

Yes! Remember this from last year.

[WildCards]

SevenR said:

Got a litte story for you...

To be fair to the old brute, it got us back ok despite the engine going pop south of Rouen. The dash was lit up so well I got a suntan, but we made decent progress up to Calais and onto the Midlands. Infact I continued to drive it when needed for a fortnight after too.
That was my second Le Mans, the first was just as eventful as i'd lost my passport on the way but managed to blag my way in with my driving licence.

[SEE YA]

WildCards said:

SevenR said:

Got a litte story for you...

To be fair to the old brute, it got us back ok despite the engine going pop south of Rouen. The dash was lit up so well I got a suntan, but we made decent progress up to Calais and onto the Midlands. Infact I continued to drive it when needed for a fortnight after too.
That was my second Le Mans, the first was just as eventful as i'd lost my passport on the way but managed to blag my way in with my driving licence.

A good idea, that I do is photo copy my Passport as backup in case it goes missing.

[Storer]

SEE YA said:

WildCards said:

SevenR said:

Got a litte story for you...

To be fair to the old brute, it got us back ok despite the engine going pop south of Rouen. The dash was lit up so well I got a suntan, but we made decent progress up to Calais and onto the Midlands. Infact I continued to drive it when needed for a fortnight after too.
That was my second Le Mans, the first was just as eventful as i'd lost my passport on the way but managed to blag my way in with my driving licence.

A good idea, that I do is photo copy my Passport as backup in case it goes missing.

Even better idea to photocopy all your documents, just in case.

Paul