Hindhead Tunnel. Who's done it and is it any good?
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Me and Luke (LG Auto) took a trip early'o'clock t'other weekend. If you are travelling that way then defo give it a go. The acoustics are fantastic. However, it has a number of speed cameras and 120+ CCTV cameras so fun is possible only in lower gears. However be warned they are massively clamping down on the 'mindless thugs in Lamborghini's, Ferrari's, Aston's etc' and it is getting a lot of local residents fired up- such as this article: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/law-and-order/pol...
It's not worth going out of your way for.
DC.
It's not worth going out of your way for.
DC.
On the one hand it's just another tunnel, but even going through in a rented Transit brought a smile to my face.
Coming from Essex and heading back to Dorset, if I had chance to alleviate the dual-carriageway tedium with a mini-hoon I'd be looking at either down to Petersfield and straight along the A272, passing the West Meon Hut halfway; or exit the A3 immediately after the tunnel and take the A287 back up to Farnham, then the A31 to Winch. But probably the best compromise between fun roads and unnecessary mileage is a blast up Little Switzerland (Hampshire's answer to Zig Zag hill), then down the A32 and join the Morestead Road - all SC favoured tarmac.
LMK if you want map pointers.
Coming from Essex and heading back to Dorset, if I had chance to alleviate the dual-carriageway tedium with a mini-hoon I'd be looking at either down to Petersfield and straight along the A272, passing the West Meon Hut halfway; or exit the A3 immediately after the tunnel and take the A287 back up to Farnham, then the A31 to Winch. But probably the best compromise between fun roads and unnecessary mileage is a blast up Little Switzerland (Hampshire's answer to Zig Zag hill), then down the A32 and join the Morestead Road - all SC favoured tarmac.
LMK if you want map pointers.
I am now living about 1 mile from the tunnel and have been going through it pretty regularly, still puts a smile on my face each time I go through 
and thats in a clio!
Wouldn't say I have noticed any major police presence around although they do patrol it throughout the day. Dont think anybody minds people passing through and enjoying the acoustics, its just the minority which drive through, peel off, attempt to drift round the roundabouts and then go back through again like a race track that cause all of the wrong sort of attention and tend to ruin it for the rest of us.
If your heading up this direction then its worth a drive through but as already mentioned I wouldn't go massively out of your way to do so.
and thats in a clio! Wouldn't say I have noticed any major police presence around although they do patrol it throughout the day. Dont think anybody minds people passing through and enjoying the acoustics, its just the minority which drive through, peel off, attempt to drift round the roundabouts and then go back through again like a race track that cause all of the wrong sort of attention and tend to ruin it for the rest of us.
If your heading up this direction then its worth a drive through but as already mentioned I wouldn't go massively out of your way to do so.
We had fun on way back from Brands the other week. 
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It’s there, it’s just got to be done, not that good for acoustics compared with some tunnels in Switzerland etc. Personally I more enjoyed a walk in the Devils Punch Bowl and along the, being dismantled, old A3, remembering the hours of my life I wasted away sitting there in my Astra GTE, around 16 years ago. Infact one June morning seeing a boat full of car porn queuing at the lights wondering where they have been, and then realising they were on their way back from Le Mans, and thus started many years of heading to that event.
I've done it, and enjoyed it enormously. Mind you, I did it without annoying any of the locals, and without breaking any speed limits.
I took some video which you can see here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExO9Yban1g
Don
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I took some video which you can see here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExO9Yban1g
Don
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