*****THE OFFICIAL 'I'm OFF TO THE CLASSIC' THREAD*****

[lebox]

Cars all washed, polished & ready.

Cameras charged & packed.

Route Planned.

Ferry tomorrow at 11:15 from Portsmouth to Cherbourg.

3 days in Normandy then drive down to Le Mans on Thursday on the 338

Hope everyone has a great drive down, looking forward to the Friday BBQ in Mulsanne

Cheers!

[nawarne]

That's the way to do it!

I'm on the P'mouth-LeHavre fastcat on Thursday with a few other Hampshire TVRs.
Looking forward to the event, and hope to make the Friday bash at Arnage.

....I'm heading South on Monday to a gite South of Tours...drink a little wine and chill!!

Heads-up for the A28 and I expect the D338, plod will be lurking! Spoke to the Team Lang'ne boys coming back from the 24H, and 3 were pulled for 170km/hr (so not hugely fast), - 750 Euro on the spot & 6 months French ban. Beware!

Nick

[MiniMadMike]

I am so unbelievably excited, only three days of work left! Going down with the old man in a Boxster Spyder (with sports exhaust ). Meeting up with a few others at the euro tunnel on thursday morning. Only ever been to the big Le Mans once, last year, and this is the first classic i will have been to. Cant wait!!

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

nawarne said:

Heads-up for the A28 and I expect the D338, plod will be lurking! Spoke to the Team Lang'ne boys coming back from the 24H, and 3 were pulled for 170km/hr (so not hugely fast), - 750 Euro on the spot & 6 months French ban. Beware!

Still you'd expect that in the UK as that's 105mph+

[James_N]

Im off early doors thursday morning from Stafford to catch the 6am Norfolkline to Dunkirk! (I was cheap and went norfolkline instead of P&O!) so leaving about 1am from Stafford. Black Honda S2000 with S2000 reg on Maison blanche if anyone else is around

[johnzo]

RIGHT - TVR is packed (got the essentials in, shades, flag-pole), no room for son or anything he thinks he will take ... got a bizz trip to Italy Mon-Wed, return Wed lunchtime hence I had to be organised NOW ... leave Yorkshire Wed afternoon and cross SeaFrance thursday morning. And then Maison Blanche!!! Yippee

[locodude]

Only 3 more sleeps to go. We're doing it on the cheap this year, 4 of us in 1 car (will miss the TVR) leaving on the 3.20am eurotunnel thurs am, should be at the Maison Blanche campsite by 10.30 - 11am. We're travelling in a black BMW 4 x 4. Come say hi

[Herbie Hammer]

Car washed this morning, my mates camping gear collected last weekend and can't wait - on the 20.30 Pompey to st Malo on Wednesday, staying at the Le Mob site.....

HH

[Wadeski]

Super excited...but....i blue a turbo gasket yesterday! Lets see if Pacific Works can work their magic...

[Poledriver]

Wadeski said:

Super excited...but....i blue a turbo gasket yesterday! Lets see if Pacific Works can work their magic...

What colour should it be?

[TFatC]

1935 Rolls Royce cleaned and polished - check
1968 Rover P5b been off the road 20 years, MOT last week, done 300 miles so that should be fine , cleaned and polished - check
Tickets arrived - check
Gite booked - check

Head down to Crawley Tuesday, 0830 (I think) ferry Dover to Calais Thursday.

Hope to see you all at Mulsanne on Friday, with BOTH cars

Edited coz I carnt type!

Edited by TFatC on Sunday 4th July 17:40

[Wadeski]

Poledriver said:

Wadeski said:

Super excited...but....i blue a turbo gasket yesterday! Lets see if Pacific Works can work their magic...

What colour should it be?

Wow, what a brain-fart

[bubblehead]

TVR back together, cleaned and hopefully ready to travel down from Glasgow to Portsmouth early doors Tuesday. Not had a chance to give her a proper test run yet......Really looking forward to the whole event and the drive thru France, first time at Le Mans as well as first time abroad in the TVR. Hope to see some of you at the bbq!

[johnzo]

bubblehead said:

TVR back together, cleaned and hopefully ready to travel down from Glasgow to Portsmouth early doors Tuesday. Not had a chance to give her a proper test run yet......Really looking forward to the whole event and the drive thru France, first time at Le Mans as well as first time abroad in the TVR. Hope to see some of you at the bbq!

Which crossing are you on? If you are at Dover around 7:30am Thursday and see a red Griffith, say "hi"!

[darreni]

Some last minute tweeks to the CSL, ferry from Guernsey to St Malo on thurs afternoon, can't wait to see a grid of GT40's & 917's again!

Might have to watch "Le Mans" again!

On a seperate note, does anyone know any good model shops in Le Mans? I'm after a nice 1:18 Gulf 917.

[bubblehead]

Johnzo i'm on the Portsmouth to Le Harve ferry on Thurs at 0830 but i'll keep an eye out on the drive down, where are you staying?

[Tony427]

Leaving Dover Tuesday morning on the LD 5.00 am ferry to Boulogne in a 2 car convoy, one AK Cobra and a Ford Focus. Taking a leisurely drive down sans motorways, tolls and major roads so will be seeing some of la belle France before arriving at our Gite for four days R and R before the racing.

Can't wait although I'm working tomorrow.

Cheers,

Tony

[MDT]

Would you believe it… Car is packed and all ready to go. Just need to fill the tank and head off, fingers crossed the new cooling fan dose the job. Feel like a 7 year old in the run up to Christmas.

[tim200sx]

We're sitting in the queue at portsmouth waiting for the 8.30 to le havre. Spending a few days near paris before heading to le mans, can't wait! Safe drive everybody and see you all down there!

[tr7v8]

Serviced the 944 (not mine) we were going down in last week. Had a coolant leak on return from goodwood Friday. Was going to investigate yesterday and.... it won't start. It isn't the ECU as we swapped it with mine, suspect crank sensors, so as my 944 needs a belt service we'll use my Jag S-Type.
He has owned the 944 for 5 years & never a problem, now this! Maybe it has a thing about driving on the wrong side of the road or something