Motoring highs and lows of 2010 - what were yours?

[Hitch78]

High: buying first V8 - big itch scratched.

Low: Nissan Micra hire car in SA - I really didn't think that they still made such poorly packaged, under-powered cars.

Edited by Hitch78 on Saturday 1st January 08:22

[juansolo]

Highs: Got the Juno (actually in Dec 2009 but didn't drive it until 2010), took it to Spa. If there is ever a definition of motoring nirvana, this is it.
Traded in the a nail of an Elise (that is apparently now faultless, probably because I fixed them all!) for a Cayman and discovered it to be pretty much the perfect GT for me.
Finally got around to fixing the little outstanding jobs on the Westie then took it to the ring.

Lows: None.

Pretty bloody good year for me!

[suffolk009]

Highs:

Driving back from Switzerland in January (proper snow) in the MX-5

Any day it doesn't rain in the Midget (aeroscreens)

The drive home after dropping the kids of at school in the Legacy GTB


Lows:

Driving into LeMans, having all those prats on the road outside Houx Annexe trowing fairy liquid into my face.

My wife phoning to say the MX-5 had broken down. Apparently the cam-belt snapped. On the M25. In Rush-hour. In a contra-flow. And I'd forgotten to renew the AA membership.

[Jerry Can]

lows: spending a fortune on my stock hatch race car as part of a planned championship assualt, only to give up after two rounds because all I was doing was putting right all that was made wrong by an inept monkey I used briefly last year. It spent so much for so little return that I briefly retired from racing so fed up was I.

highs - finishing 5th on my debut in the VW Golf Championship at Oulton and driving the wheels off the same car in the final race at Snet, doing 10 laps all within 1/10th of a second to finish 8th, 8 secs down on the winner, 18secs up on the 9th place person. (in a car that was 1.5secs off the pace)

Also selling my Ford Friendee Camper van (bought to use during my racing season) for £1750 profit.

Edited by Jerry Can on Saturday 1st January 09:24

[blueg33]

High - Driving home in my first TVR Tuscan and seeing the expression on my kids faces

Low - G33 breaking down 30 miles from Santander when we had 1500 miles to do to get to Le Mans, and subsequent piss taking for a week from my mates

[FamilyDub]

High: driving from Skye to Glasgow at 6am on dry, deserted, Highland roads one Sunday morning. Nirvana.

No lows

[FamilyDub]

High: driving from Skye to Glasgow at 6am on winding, dry, deserted, Highland roads one Sunday morning. Nirvana.

No lows

[ewenm]

High: Week in the Alps in the Caterham including one day of 745 miles.
Low: Not getting the Mustang back on the road.

[sawman]

Highs: Taking the morgan around curborough sprint track, and competing in an Autosolo with the morgan sports car club. - what a blast, tear arsing around a carpark, just like being 17 again!

Lows: driving from west mids to east kent via newcastle, on a windy wet day, in a leaky sportcar was not much fun.

[bga]

Highs: Cancelled FPN for over generous interpretation of NSL
Lows: Autobox rebuild on the BMW, 25k miles in 6 months at <30 mpg

[ferraridave]

High: Buying my first car
Lows: none thankfully!

Happy new year

[P5Nij]

Highs : having a change around car wise and ending up with two usable beauties, namely a '69 Mini Cooper and a '72 Rover 3500.

Lows : pranging said Rover on my own bloody driveway before Christmas, by misjudging the gap and scraping both nearside doors on the gatepost. It's fixable and it's not the end of the world, but it grates nonetheless!

Nidge

[anonymous-user]

Highs:

The first time I squeezed the throttle on my 172. Scared the st out of me but what a feeling.

Driving down to Goodwood FOS in the 172 on a lovely sunny morning with a couple of mates keeping up with a Mazda 3 MPS through some back roads

Low: Garaging it and having no car to drive at all

Edited by MSTRBKR on Saturday 1st January 12:56

[Cock Womble 7]

Highs:

Buying the Caterham

Lows:

None, I've got a fking Caterham!

[vrooom]

High: buying a mx5, and bought new car for wife.

low: sold mx5.

[tinman0]

High: Driving the Transfaragasan Highway in September

Low: Breaking 5th gear on the way to the Transf.


(Extra high: driving the Mustang round some fabulous roads last week by Loch Ness. Loved every minute of it).

[fourwheelsteer]

Highs:

Some great drives in the Prelude; making the most of V-tec, gearbox and 4WS.
Doing my CBT and getting some motorbike lessons.
Passenger ride in 1966 Ferrari 275GTB - utterly magnificent treat for the senses.


Lows:

Niggly problems with the Prelude.
Cost of petrol.
Being unable to afford to get my full bike licence.

[jt racing]

Highs: Buying a €900 merc sec 560 at the top of the country at 12am and driving back wit a good mate laughing at the noise and sideways! Going over the Boyne valley bridge with the pillarless windows and sunroof open the night sky as clear as it could be.

Low: Vrt wanting my soul to put Irish plates on it....

High: buying a mint astra gte convertable, and having some really good drives in it. Father buying it off me so still having it when I want it.

Low: realising that a 280+ bhp t5 was going to cost me my licence, and 11mpg when boosting...

High: Getting a 750 motorbike.
Low: Riding it in the rain!!

High: For all the chopping and changing, not loosing any money!

[nickphuket]

Highs : a really good run out to Phang Nga with a few like minded friends
Lows : Drowning the impreza in a flood and receiving 8 stitches in head after hitting a three wheel scooter on my scooter on Xmas day

Roll on 2011!

[CraigyMc]

Highs: Seeing what the TT was actually capable of on the Autobahn (I set off the 250kph alarm bong I set up when I first got the car). A TF lap of the Nordschleife.
Lows: Blowing the turbo for the second time (car off the road for another 4 weeks).

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