Four GT3's went to mow...

[keep it lit]

... went to mow an alpine meadow.


hey up,

a few words & pics from our recent euro-tour to share.

the planned route;

MANCHESTER

STUTTGART

LAKE CONSTANCE

LIECHTENSTEIN

STELVIO PASS

BOLZANO

SERIES OF MOUNTAIN PASSES

CORTINA

SERIES OF MOUNTAIN PASSES

PLOCKENPASS

VILLACH

SLOVENIA AND ASSOCIATED MOUNTAIN PASSES AND RIVER DRIVES ( HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

NOVA GORCIA

UDINE

PORDENONE

BELLUNO

TRENTO

SONDRIO

COLICO

BELLAGIO

LECCO

LAKE COMO

VARESE

STRESA

BIELLA

AOSTA

COURMAYEUR

COL DU PETITE ST BERNARD

LA ROSIERE

ROIGNAIS

BEAUFORT

ALBERTVILLE

MOUTIERS

BOURG ST MAURICE

COL DU LISERAN

VAL D' SERE

BONNEVAL

LAN LES BOURG

COL DU MT CENIS

MODANE

ST MICHAEL-D M

COL DU GALIBIER

COL DU LAUTARET

LA GRAVE

ALPE D' HUEZ

VIZILLE

GRENOBLE

CHAMBEREY

ANNECY

FRANGY

BELLEGARDE

COLLONGES

ST CLAUDE

COL DE LA FAUCILLE

MOREZ

CHAMPAGNOLE

POLIOGNY

DOLE

DIJON

LANGRES

CHAU MONT

ST DIZIER

CHALONS EN CHAMPAGNE

REIMS

LAON

ST QUENTIN

CAMBRAI

ARRAS

BETHUNE

ST OMER

CALAIS

AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, GOOD OLD BLIGHTY.


first stop;






second duty bound stop;




































... three hours in the museum (with great food!) on a sunday afternoon was enough, i was more fixed on the next three weeks! so we saddled up and hit the autobahn for lake Constance.. shortly into the first de-zone on the autobahn the white car and i got invloved in an exercise with a pushy local hero in a black RS4 Avant MTM TT (a very fast Audi!).. truth be told he had me but the poke winning white car won @ 193mph.. we soon pulled over to wait for the yellow & green cars who were following.. we thought.......

after a phone call we learnt the yellow car had a problem. the water temp had shot up as they hit the autobahn and pulled over.. on inspection the front center radiator had let go, all coolant lost.. they called for recovery, the green car was with them, we were told to push on!..

next morning we were told the car had been recovered swiftly to the local Stuttgart main dealer, but it would be wednesday at the earliest for a replacement radiator.. (seriously in Stuttgart!!) it was indeed thursday morning before the yellow car was fit for purpose again.. bummer!
the lads did go to Spa on the way home for a glorious weekends racing as consolation...
the green & yellow cars had only planned to do the first week..
next year lads!!


let the games begin!














more pics to follow..

ade

Edited by keep it lit on Sunday 5th August 17:53

Edited by keep it lit on Sunday 5th August 17:58

9000 kms door to door..

.. nearly forgot; many many thanks to my best mate, the man, the myth, the Highland legend Andy in his fresh white RS.. leading from the front as ever!
my absolute pleasure to be with, every single mile & every last minute.
a trip we will never forget!!

Ade

Edited by keep it lit on Sunday 5th August 18:36

Edited by keep it lit on Tuesday 7th August 15:06

[Crimp a Length!]

Bloody fantastic, looked like you had an epic trip.
Look forward to the pics.

[keep it lit]

Crimp a Length! said:

Bloody fantastic, looked like you had an epic trip.
Look forward to the pics.

mental weather here Crimp!.. so sketchy internet??.. difficultly on the upload schnizzle!!


glad to home... WTF!

[sportsandclassic]

I will be getting a pass out for next years trip.

Looks like you had a good time.

Mike

[PGM]

I'm going away with the family, taking the 997 to Jura in a couple of weeks time. How do you recommend the Col de la Faucille, I see it was on your list? Any pictures of this area? I'm a euro tour veteran having completed several long tours in our old 996.

Thanks
Paul

[fioran0]

That's properly epic- 9000kms road trip!!!
Can't wait to hear your tales

[dadofbud]

Wow, Comprehensive sound too inadequate a word for the post let alone the trip, envious.

[Slippydiff]

Nice one Ade ! Great cars, superb roads, thanks for posting some great pictures too. Nice to see yours looking so well used and "travel stained"

[GT Glee]

keep it lit said:

Stunnning! And I'm not talking about the scenery

What a mega drive too.

[dazren]

Superb bit of Hoonage. Three weeks on the road is serious endurance. Did anyone need to change tyres mid trip?

I'm off with a few other PHers at the end of the month into Europe for 3k miles over 11 days. Taking in the Swiss Alps and then a Megahoon trip around Italy.

[all2ofme]

That trip looks amazing, Ade! Must post about my week-long jaunt to southern Poland and back. I had coolant issues too, but they were solved much more easily!

Oh, and mmmmm to a bottle of Saumur Champigny - one of my favourite reds. So light and quaffable. Om nom nom.

[Ordinary_Chap]

Amazing, I really want to see more pics as I'd love to do something like this and have been thinking about it for a while.

Look forward to the next update.
Lee

[Jmracing66]

GT Glee said:

Stunnning! And I'm not talking about the scenery

What a mega drive too.

Sorry for th off topic but what are the wheels on the mk1 gt3 ?

Epic trip btw

[Terminator X]

That white one is mental! I'm on

TX.

[Crimp a Length!]

This is what i should be doing in the GT2 instead of taking to the shows and polishing the bloody thing. Lifes too short for all that garage queen bks.

[jackwood]

Ade, that looks epic!
Did you do it one set of rubber?
Call in for those stickers if you're passing anytime.
Jack

[DAB964RS]

Ade

epic trip and great photos

we actually saw you descending the Stelvio, we were parked up taking photos of the zig-zags towards Bormio. I will mail you a few photos that we took of your descent towards the tunnels.

cheers
David

[tracydeedance]

Looks epic. Nice to see GT3s being used for road trips as well as track and just being left in the garage.
Just done 500 miles in my 996 GT3 Mk2 recently to poole. Some epic driving in the company of more powerfull 997 turbo 997 turbo s and a 997 GT2.
Looked a great trip nice pics also.

[911god]

Crimp a Length! said:

This is what i should be doing in the GT2 instead of taking to the shows and polishing the bloody thing. Lifes too short for all that garage queen bks.

You Definately should. Had a 4 day 1200 mile run with some mates in April
and spa in October. Mines looking like I'll do 7-8k miles a year

[Mermaid]

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