If I don't come back :-)
If I don't come back :-)
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lestershaw

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1,591 posts

188 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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Hi everyone who knows me, I am 60 next week and to celebrate I am going here to do what is being done in the video link below, I was going to drive in the chim but it's too loud for Switzerland. If I don't come back does anyone want to make an offer on my car and I will give the info to my brother who will be coming with me
Lester


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvuHSqqGSw&fea...

Quietlybonkers

22,509 posts

174 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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Have a great time Lester - bagsy me have first dibs on the Takely terror...laugh

Milky400

1,960 posts

208 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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something wrong with you...........................

JPW231

350 posts

241 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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Have fun :-)

Ribol

11,995 posts

288 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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lestershaw said:
.........I was going to drive in the chim but it's too loud for Switzerland.
Lame excuse, I have been there in mine loads of times, are you sure you're not a Griff owner?

I woundn't mind doing that though clap

Alexdaredevilz

5,697 posts

209 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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Got room for one more? Haha

But on a serious note I got a stock silencer/exhaust you can borrow if you want to take the Chim,

sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

280 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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lestershaw said:
I was going to drive in the chim but it's too loud for Switzerland
Is there an actual db limit for Switzerland?

haircutmike

22,509 posts

234 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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Are you mad?

C15

350 posts

273 months

Thursday 16th August 2012
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I go to Switzerland in my very loud Griff at least a few times a year no problems just lots of annoyed looks..

No limit unless you are registering it and then the same as all over Europe.. 95dB..

Quietlybonkers

22,509 posts

174 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Alexdaredevilz

5,697 posts

209 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Quietlybonkers said:
I have heard Lester's car - sounds like about 195 dB ears
Pre cats out, Clive decat Y-piece and sleeved back box

Loudest combo going!

lestershaw

Original Poster:

1,591 posts

188 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Alexdaredevilz said:
Got room for one more? Haha

But on a serious note I got a stock silencer/exhaust you can borrow if you want to take the Chim,
thanks Alex, i do have a quiet exhaust somewhere at hilton and moss, i didnt fancy the drive there and back without a co driver, i was due to take my son, booked it all up and then he told me he hasnt got his passport back yet !! bottle job i reckon, so my brother is coming, flying to milan for two nights, back on sunday.
maybe a few of us youngsters can do a road trip there another time :-)
show you the video on my return

lestershaw

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Friday 17th August 2012
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Goaty Bill

1,779 posts

181 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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I should have thought owning a 500 would have provided more than enough opportunity for a violent death to satisfy most men.
Clearly you are not normal Lester (or you don't do enough driving)


When my son was about 13, I got him a season pass to Thorpe Park.
He told me he spent the whole day there riding all of the biggest, fastest, scariest etc.
I said something like; "don't any of those rides make you ill or something after all those hours?"
To which he replied; "After 5 years riding shotgun in the TVR every weekend, I don't think there is a ride in the world that can scare me. They're all kind of boring really.".


Have fun Lester smile

Ribol

11,995 posts

288 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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lestershaw said:
..............warned me against going in a loud car as there is a good chance of being stopped by the BiB
I am sure that if someone wants to go over there and act like an idiot then it won't go down well and they will probably get nicked for something, with or without noise.

I dare say that someone like yourself who is sensible as you obviously are (see above hehe) wouldn't have any issues at all.

The endless tunnels and decent roads might prove to be a little too much of a temptation though cloud9

lestershaw

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1,591 posts

188 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Goaty Bill said:
I should have thought owning a 500 would have provided more than enough opportunity for a violent death to satisfy most men.
Clearly you are not normal Lester (or you don't do enough driving)


When my son was about 13, I got him a season pass to Thorpe Park.
He told me he spent the whole day there riding all of the biggest, fastest, scariest etc.
I said something like; "don't any of those rides make you ill or something after all those hours?"
To which he replied; "After 5 years riding shotgun in the TVR every weekend, I don't think there is a ride in the world that can scare me. They're all kind of boring really.".


Have fun Lester smile
Thanks Goatee
yes ive scared myself and others a few times :-)
but not doing enough driving ?
i used to go mountain biking most nights until i got my TVR and then i put on 2 stone whilst the bike gathered cobwebs. i have evened it out a bit now and do a bit of both and i have lost the 2 stones.
i will definately take the TVR abroad either this year or next though


lestershaw

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1,591 posts

188 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Ribol said:
I am sure that if someone wants to go over there and act like an idiot then it won't go down well and they will probably get nicked for something, with or without noise.

I dare say that someone like yourself who is sensible as you obviously are (see above hehe) wouldn't have any issues at all.

The endless tunnels and decent roads might prove to be a little too much of a temptation though cloud9
i have hired a punto thingy, that should be nice ho ho

lestershaw

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1,591 posts

188 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Just to confirm, i will be doing the same jump off the same bridge, and the more i look at it i think,
its a TVR jump, no ABS, no traction control, going too fast to stop properly, out of control again, and the prospect of leaving giant skid marks lol i just hope the equipment wasnt made in Blackpool and that its held together with more than glue

Chilliman

12,423 posts

191 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Good luck Lester and have a great time smile I'm getting a whizz round Silverstone in a 360 and an AMV8V for my birthday this year.. bit tame compared to your exploits though (specially as they'e both slower than the Chim...in a straight line anyway)

Oh, and come back in piece please smile

Quietlybonkers

22,509 posts

174 months

Friday 17th August 2012
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Chilliman said:
Oh, and come back in piece please smile
One piece.....or pieces, Dick?