Top gear inspired road trip

[davidexige]

For those that watch Top gear you might remember in the last series they did a feture that extolled some of the great roads that could be found within forty miles of London, this inspired me this weekend to see if I too could find these same roads. Attached are a few pictures of the best roads I could find. I must point out at this point that any similarity to various locations and landmarks in the pictures that resemble locations within the Scotish highlands are purely coincidental

Edited by davidexige on Sunday 1st September 17:22

Edited by davidexige on Sunday 1st September 17:24

[Ikebaddog]

Picture no3.......Peckham Rye...busted.

[Gettoff]

Lovely set of pictures David, must be great to have that scenery with those roads on your doorstep.
I just wish that 'Hertfordshire' wasn't so far away from Bucks where I live .

[Ice27]

Love the last 2!!!
How long did it take you to find the right rock?

[GTDB7]

Glen Etive.. great little road off the A82.
I'll be up there next May :-)

[mikey k]

[MollyGTi]

OK, so photos 9 & 10 - a cheeky little comparison there .....

Nice photos. Think some locations look familiar I think a Scottish tour is pretty much compulsory if you are going to get out and about and enjoy your car properly!

Now, have you thought about changing your PH name to something more in keeping with your lovely car!?

[Gettoff]

mikey k said:

Mikey

This would be a fantastic long-weekend run... Something that you could put your unparalleled knowledge of routes and organisational skills to work on

I hear late spring is lovely in the highlands..

[Bincenzo]

Oh and just imagine the resonating sound........

[davidexige]

Actually this was really easy, I managed to get a lat and long grid reference for the location and one of the options available for Moaning Myrtle (my pet name for the Aston sat nav) is the ability to enter a grid ref and surprisingly it took us to the exact location.

Ice27 said:

Love the last 2!!!
How long did it take you to find the right rock?

[mikey k]

Gettoff said:

Mikey

This would be a fantastic long-weekend run... Something that you could put your unparalleled knowledge of routes and organisational skills to work on

I hear late spring is lovely in the highlands..

I am sat in a cottage above Loch Ness looking today's pictures from 300 miles round the Cairngorms

[Gettoff]

mikey k said:

I am sat in a cottage above Loch Ness looking today's pictures from 300 miles round the Cairngorms

Like your style, just doing a bit of a recce before inviting the rest of us along next year , very thorough and thoughtful of you .

[CatalystV12V]

Lovely car.. Reminds me of my 56 plate Tungsten 4.3. I think the lines of the original sills still look the best.

[triple5]

Lovely car and great pics.

[apotek]

Nice car, wish I had one like that.

[Steve Richards]

CatalystV12V said:

Lovely car.. Reminds me of my 56 plate Tungsten 4.3. I think the lines of the original sills still look the best.

Totally agree and love Meteorite Silver

[mikey k]

apotek said:

Nice car, wish I had one like that.

You haven't sold yours?

[Ed50]

mikey k said:

I am sat in a cottage above Loch Ness looking today's pictures from 300 miles round the Cairngorms

Mikey,

I'm dead jealous sat down here on the edge of the flatlands.............

Enjoy your trip and don't clock up to many miles and don't forget about Dunrobin Castle.......

[justin220]

Superb pictures, would you mind posting up the actual route?

[GTDB7]

For anyone interested in such a trip next May, then here's a thread for a Scottish Trip.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


Registration for the trip will open later this month :-)