Motoring highs and lows of 2010 - what were yours?

Motoring highs and lows of 2010 - what were yours?

Author
Discussion

sploosh

Original Poster:

822 posts

207 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs:

Prescott hill climb in May in my Triumph - first run was all about getting the back end out at Ettore's bend and into Pardon hairpin - great fun. Second run was more about getting the right lines, felt much quicker. Third run would have seen me in the trees.

Le mans in June (TL) - sixth time in eight years. Highlight was running out of beer at the far side of the circuit and being given a crate of 30 with an appology for them not being cold!


Lows:

Headgasket failure on the Saab in February - £1,300 after things got complicated with the LPG conversion.

Coming down from Prescott and finding out that the thrust washers were on the verge of falling out and wrecking the bottom end. Engine out job and 6 weeks off the road.


2011:

Would like to get out in the Triumph more... perhaps a track day.



Jonboy_t

5,038 posts

182 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High - Getting my M3 convertible,

Low - Being worried about breaking my new car! Every sodding time I go out in it!

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

182 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High for me was competing in the Practical Performance Car £999 Challenge. thumbup

Low was renewing my insurance and finding it to be more than £2,000 for the first time since I was seventeen. frown

Olivera

7,068 posts

238 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs:

Palmersport GT day at Bedford Autodrome
Driving a Boxster on a sunny day in the Highlands
Ford Fair 2010 on track at Silverstone

Lows:

Recurring starting problem in the Leon

TheMoron

206 posts

159 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High - Passing my test 1st Time
Low - Insurance costs! mad

callyman

3,151 posts

211 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High, getting an award for the engine build.

Low, having the transfer box let go.

RobboC

1,527 posts

260 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs: Enjoying my Elise, then taking S2000 to LeMans for a totally brilliant trip, buying a Mondeo ST155 and surprisingly really liking it

Lows: Selling my Elise, selling the S2000 missing a proper sports car.

Hoping 2011 will get me back in something more interesting!

Chris71

21,535 posts

241 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs:

Hitting full throttle in a 620hp Continental Supersport, chasing an F430 Challenge car around the old Silverstone Bridge GP circuit in a Chevron GR8, and driving my first 'slicks and wings' open wheeler. Oh, and taking the S-bends on the A507 rather quicker than was wise one evening in my Caterham.

Lows:

Being stuck in a 1.6 Focus for some of the best driving roads in Wales back in October wishing I already had 'my' TVR (I bought one a few weeks later...)

podwin

652 posts

201 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
No Highs.

The Low:

The last day of January it snowed again, and due to the fact I was rushing to and from the hospital I wasn't 'proceeding with caution' with respect to the conditions, and slid the car into a brick wall

robsco

7,822 posts

175 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High - Buying an Alfa with the Arese V6, my life is enriched by it.

Lows - The look on my GFs face when we pulled into the services halfway home and aforementioned Alfa wouldn't start. Selling the 147 was upsetting too.

98C4S

2,934 posts

189 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High - Getting my 993 Turbo

Low - this happening to most panels on my D3:





GTO Scott

3,816 posts

223 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Motoring highs:

The B4391 and A4212 (Penybont-fawr - Bala - Trawsfynydd) back in January in the old black GTO. No other drivers, snow capping the mountains. Those roads remain my all time favorites.

Collecting the red GTO after it's new exhaust a few weeks ago. It now sounds cloud9

Motoring lows:

The red GTO's water pump seizing on the way home after buying it, collecting the cambelt, 24 valves and a big bill along with it.

The phone call last week from my wife to say she'd rolled her Ford Focus. Couldn't really care about the car, but in all fairness it stood up to a 50mph roll well enough to allow her to walk away near enough unscathed, which is the only thing that matters.

Tallbut Buxomly

12,254 posts

215 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs: Playing in the snow. My car reaching 300k miles. The bridge jump.

Lows: The bridge jump.

MiniMadMike

780 posts

197 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High: Buying my first 6cyl BMW

Low: Selling my first 6cyl BMW

2 Wycked

2,335 posts

230 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs:
- Buying my Jaguar Sovereign.
- This'll sound stupid, but successfully lowering my Vento on cheap coilovers more than a friend of mine with air ride could manage. Bloody uncomfortable though.

Lows:
- Selling the Sovereign, having spent £260 on fuel in a fortnight. I do too many miles to have one as a daily it would seem.
- The last month without a car, relying on public transport and parents for lifts; Finally back in mine today so things are looking good for the start of 2011!

Bonefish Blues

26,454 posts

222 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
High:

Mrs BFB finally, at long last, "getting" top down motoring whilst in her MX 5.

Low:

Mrs BFB stuffing aforementioned MX 5 into wall in February snow. Mrs BFB now happy owner of MX 5 with winter tyres biggrin

judas

5,963 posts

258 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Lows: having to sell the Ferrari and Porker due to job-related problems frown

Highs: getting another GTV V6 and fitting it with some great mods an obnoxiously loud exhaust biggrin

Angry Sheep

1,120 posts

209 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs: Doing plenty of miles on some of the best roads in Wales...
Lows: ...before having to give up my car when I started uni.

Lawsome

613 posts

182 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
+ Doing the Dukes Pass for the first time. Got completely lost in the drive.
+ First year with the ST was completely trouble free. Well.... nothing that was the cars fault anyway....

- Clattering a kerb at the start of the year. Unfamiliar area + thick snow = things getting bent.

2011:
Hopefully a great year, doing loads more hoons with the scottish guys and getting a few track days done.

Chicane-UK

3,861 posts

184 months

Friday 31st December 2010
quotequote all
Highs: After years of owning various 4 cylinder Corrado's, I finally got the one I always wanted.. the VR6. It hasn't disappointed in the slightest smile

Lows: Sending my beautiful (well, it wasn't beautiful like a mint example.. but I loved it) old W124 200TE off for the scrappage scheme so my missus could get a good deal on a new Micra. I don't think I'll ever forgive myself.. but the Merc needed some expensive things doing to it, and I'd never have sold it for more than £500... so it was time to go frown I felt like I was sending a family pet to be put down - it was heart wrenching! I'll have another good one some day!