Clotted Cream Run '07 - July 14th/15th 2007

[john_r]

The ingredients for a superb weekend:

- 467.8 Miles
- 0.5 Litres of oil
- 53.4mph average
- 15.1 MPG
- 141 Litres of Shell V-Power
- Cat Cat Navigation System (static"at the roundabout"static beep!)
- Wine
- Great food!
- A fearless passenger (:browntrousermoment: "BUS!")
- 3 shoe laces (black)
- Radios!
- A Porsche driver in denial...
- Waking up on Monday morning feeling like you've been run over by a truck!

Edited by john_r on Monday 16th July 11:18

[Baldylocks]

I noticed the impressive average speed too! (for the return leg from the petrol station). How quick was the detour off the A303?! Thats the first time I have really struggled to keep up - you guys just left me for dead on acceleration from the first T-junction.

The shoelace incident was priceless. Its supposed to be Clio's that have the dodgy bonnet catch

[PH_RT]

really enjoyed this weekend thanks a lot to everyone

had such a good time

Thanks a lot for letting me come out in your car nathan!

Also a big thanks to Nick for driving

/Rich

[Marc W]

Looks like an excellent weekend. Nice photos You seemed to get less rain than we got up at Donington park too!

[Robatr0n]

Friday was pretty rainy, non stop rain from about 3pm to 10pm and the roads were a wash with water. Other than that it wasn't too bad.

[Baldylocks]

Where did you go on the way back Rob?

[Dizeee]

Which one of you cheeky beggars is Blueseal2099?

[Robatr0n]

Baldylocks said:

Where did you go on the way back Rob?

I took the more sedate route back which probably got me home later than you guys as we got well and truely stuck on the M4. We eventually crossed back onto the A303 which speeded things up no end!

[VerySideways]

Big mistake Rob, having missed the awesome roads on Saturday you then missed them on Sunday too, and Nathan took us on a traffic free detour around Stonehenge which was blistering as well!

[john_r]

Dizeee said:

Which one of you cheeky beggars is Blueseal2099?

Clue?
Link?

PS: whatever it was, it wasn't me - I'm just intrigued?!

[john_r]

When my car needs a warranty fix I really really miss my Lexus and the Merc S-class!

BMW took nearly all day to phone me back and I have to wait nearly 2 weeks before they can lend me a car as they can't guarantee parts availability the same day... how sh1t is that service for a £70k+ car?! When my Lexus had an intermittent and fairly minor problem under warranty; I phoned them at 9am and by 11am the same day they collected the car and delivered a loaner in it's place!! The Merc had a battery problem under warranty - phoned my local dealer and they looked at it same day and I drove away in an E-class for 2 days whilst they fixed it.

And to cap it all, BMW want me to pay them to insure the loan car! That was a new one on me - not even Ford charge customers to use a loan car for fks sake!

It might have an 'M' button, but god forbid if it ever goes properly wrong!

[Kermit power]

Dizeee said:

Which one of you cheeky beggars is Blueseal2099?

Does she have her own uniform?

[Dizeee]

Hmmmm something fishy is going on here... lets just say either someone on the net had one freaking lucky guess, or, someone on here knows more than they are letting on...

Edited by Dizeee on Monday 16th July 16:29

[VerySideways]

Give us a clue!!!

[Turbofun]

Hi All,
just a quick note to every one who took part - I had a great time and enjoyed the company/cars... also the sheep on dartmoor....on the run back it was all misty... and ewes can see you coming !

Any way here's what we came down here for... clotted Cream... this time with Ginger Pudding mmmm

Edited by Turbofun on Monday 16th July 16:45

[Turbofun]

how do you load up pictures on to this thread?

[AngryS3Owner]

You need to host them somewhere like photobucket.com and then paste the link into your post.

Rob - Pete is spot on like always, that was an amazing journey back.

Diz - come on spill the beans and explain what the hell you are talking about!

[VerySideways]

Turbofun's pics:

[Dizeee]

Lets just say have a look at the video on Youtube... and there is a comment on it by someone called BlueSeal... ! Quite amusing but a little freaky too!

[Robatr0n]

VerySideways said:

Big mistake Rob, having missed the awesome roads on Saturday you then missed them on Sunday too, and Nathan took us on a traffic free detour around Stonehenge which was blistering as well!

My car is abit poorly at the moment so I think it would have died on the car free route. I think I have a slight coolant issue and a definate air intake problem, however I will be more than game when its running well.