Em177's Monaro
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em177 said:
Birdster said:
Nice. I will pick one of these up one day. I don't even want to look at the classifieds , as I'll start trying to justify one and I've no idea what these go for now. What's your insurance like?
I'm in 3 figures, @ 23 with 5 years NCB and a couple of naughty points 
SturdyHSV said:
em177 said:
Birdster said:
Nice. I will pick one of these up one day. I don't even want to look at the classifieds , as I'll start trying to justify one and I've no idea what these go for now. What's your insurance like?
I'm in 3 figures, @ 23 with 5 years NCB and a couple of naughty points So the weekend marked my 2 week anniversary with the 'Ro. Which naturally I celebrated with an 1800 mile trip to Belgium!
Pics and info to follow
Ps can a mod please change the title of the thread to something like 'em177's Monaro" ?
Pics and info to follow
Ps can a mod please change the title of the thread to something like 'em177's Monaro" ?
Edited by RichieSlow on Thursday 16th October 09:55
007 VXR said:
em177 said:
So the weekend marked my 2 week anniversary with the 'Ro. Which naturally I celebrated with an 1800 mile trip to Belgium!
Pics and info to follow
Ps can a mod please change the title of the thread to something like 'em177's Monaro" ?
just start a new thread Pics and info to follow
Ps can a mod please change the title of the thread to something like 'em177's Monaro" ?
ARAF said:
007 VXR said:
em177 said:
So the weekend marked my 2 week anniversary with the 'Ro. Which naturally I celebrated with an 1800 mile trip to Belgium!
Pics and info to follow
Ps can a mod please change the title of the thread to something like 'em177's Monaro" ?
just start a new thread Pics and info to follow
Ps can a mod please change the title of the thread to something like 'em177's Monaro" ?
So. This weekend I ended up doing a completely unplanned 1800 mile trip in the 'Ro. A perfect way to celebrate my second week of ownership
It all started when an email came through stating our Friday Croft track day had been cancelled. This left us in a pickle as I now had a long weekend booked off work, with nothing really planned.
Naturally the decision was made to head to Oktoberfest in Edinburgh. Off I went from Aberdeen down the A9. Arriving in Edinburgh a rough plan was outlayed, 4 of us would make the trip with the intention of leaving Edinburgh around 11pm. A friend (bicycleshorts on here) decided he wanted to buy a Subaru Legacy. In Waymouth :facepalm: Meaning an overnight 11 hour drive, meaning I'd be staying sober. For the other 3 at least the beers started to flow, and the night progressed into something pretty manic. Summed up perfectly by this.....
11 O'clock arrived and with 3 barely legible passengers we set off. Luckily a combination of Monster and coffee meant the night and the miles flew by easily, I have to say I'm lucky enough to have done similar trips this year in some fairly fantastic machinery (new 640d, 730d's etc) through work, and the Monaro performed perfectly, it's in it's element doing this sort of thing. And a fairly healthy 31mpg showed on the trip by the time dawn arrived. A fantastic feat 4 up full of luggage IMO.
We arrived in Waymouth and collected the Legacy. Which within minutes became the perfect location for a 15 minute power nap while everyone else who'd slept through the night got a Tesco breakfast. It was at this point my passenger seat decided it fancied breaking. It's now stuck in the full back position (helpful for rear access!)
The back rest still tilts correctly, it just won't move the base back or forward. Any ideas?
I'd been lucky enough to get a couple of tickets to Brands from BMW for the BTCC, so we made an uneventful trip back up North West. We arrived and found a wet and soggy circuit, but luckily 2 of us at least had a fantastic dry view of the days erm, interesting track action!
Leaving Brands I imagine most would go get a nice hotel near London somewhere and have a much needed early night. We decided this was rather boring and heading down south to the Channel Tunnel, location of choice being Belgium. More specifically a city we know well, Ghent. We arrived around 10, and to be honest I'd love to give you an itinery on what happened but apart from the fact I know we had a curry and hit the pub... it's a little hazy
The next afternoon we awoke to find a dry(ish) day:
We arrived at Calais and decided to get some beers for back home, was glad at this point I'd gone for an '04 big boot model
The convoy then headed back up to Scotland, stopping off at much less of these than I predicted! Overall MPG was around 29mpg for the 1800 miles.... I'd budgeted for it being in the high teeens so can't complain!
Returning home late Sunday night, I had the chance to reminisce on what a great car I've bought, what ace mates I have, how awesome Belgium is and how tired I was.
Still.... am looking forward to the next one already
It all started when an email came through stating our Friday Croft track day had been cancelled. This left us in a pickle as I now had a long weekend booked off work, with nothing really planned.
Naturally the decision was made to head to Oktoberfest in Edinburgh. Off I went from Aberdeen down the A9. Arriving in Edinburgh a rough plan was outlayed, 4 of us would make the trip with the intention of leaving Edinburgh around 11pm. A friend (bicycleshorts on here) decided he wanted to buy a Subaru Legacy. In Waymouth :facepalm: Meaning an overnight 11 hour drive, meaning I'd be staying sober. For the other 3 at least the beers started to flow, and the night progressed into something pretty manic. Summed up perfectly by this.....
11 O'clock arrived and with 3 barely legible passengers we set off. Luckily a combination of Monster and coffee meant the night and the miles flew by easily, I have to say I'm lucky enough to have done similar trips this year in some fairly fantastic machinery (new 640d, 730d's etc) through work, and the Monaro performed perfectly, it's in it's element doing this sort of thing. And a fairly healthy 31mpg showed on the trip by the time dawn arrived. A fantastic feat 4 up full of luggage IMO.
We arrived in Waymouth and collected the Legacy. Which within minutes became the perfect location for a 15 minute power nap while everyone else who'd slept through the night got a Tesco breakfast. It was at this point my passenger seat decided it fancied breaking. It's now stuck in the full back position (helpful for rear access!)
The back rest still tilts correctly, it just won't move the base back or forward. Any ideas? 
I'd been lucky enough to get a couple of tickets to Brands from BMW for the BTCC, so we made an uneventful trip back up North West. We arrived and found a wet and soggy circuit, but luckily 2 of us at least had a fantastic dry view of the days erm, interesting track action!
Leaving Brands I imagine most would go get a nice hotel near London somewhere and have a much needed early night. We decided this was rather boring and heading down south to the Channel Tunnel, location of choice being Belgium. More specifically a city we know well, Ghent. We arrived around 10, and to be honest I'd love to give you an itinery on what happened but apart from the fact I know we had a curry and hit the pub... it's a little hazy
The next afternoon we awoke to find a dry(ish) day:
We arrived at Calais and decided to get some beers for back home, was glad at this point I'd gone for an '04 big boot model
The convoy then headed back up to Scotland, stopping off at much less of these than I predicted! Overall MPG was around 29mpg for the 1800 miles.... I'd budgeted for it being in the high teeens so can't complain!
Returning home late Sunday night, I had the chance to reminisce on what a great car I've bought, what ace mates I have, how awesome Belgium is and how tired I was.
Still.... am looking forward to the next one already
preciousmetal said:
em177 said:
So naturally 2 weeks after buying the Monaro I've got the chance to get a stonking deal on another car.... anyone want to make me a bid?
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