A short trip in the CGT
Discussion
Glad people enjoyed the report of the trip and nice to hear from other owners.
By way of corollary, and to give credit where it’s due the majority of the mileage was done by the previous owner who had had the car from new. I bought it from him earlier this year and have done 2.5k miles and expect to average around 5k per year while in my ownership.
Muscle memory is a curious thing. Having spent the best part of 5 days in the car some things become second nature. It was interesting then that when I got back in the 997GT3, also LHD and LWB, the gear level seemed in an odd place on the floor. I was also taken by how quiet it was.
By way of corollary, and to give credit where it’s due the majority of the mileage was done by the previous owner who had had the car from new. I bought it from him earlier this year and have done 2.5k miles and expect to average around 5k per year while in my ownership.
Muscle memory is a curious thing. Having spent the best part of 5 days in the car some things become second nature. It was interesting then that when I got back in the 997GT3, also LHD and LWB, the gear level seemed in an odd place on the floor. I was also taken by how quiet it was.
456mgt said:
Ahh thank you! Just the inspiration needed to get off my backside and plan another continental trip. Just checked and it's 8 years since I last used mine this way, but my girlfriend at the time could pack everything for a week into a small holdall and a suit carrier. My wife likes shoes, so that's simply not going to happen. A case of choosing one or two 'anchor' locations and sending luggage ahead. PITA but doable, and worth it having read your write up! I'm going to check out your route too.
Just take the ex-gf instead of the wife then...Just by way of a postscript.
I’m heading back down to Switzerland in the car at the beginning of August so just enough time for Reading to fit in a service.
Their transporter arrived this morning to collect. It is a complicated vehicle which when it arrived already housed a rather tasty cup car heading for Silverstone. They manage to fit in two cars by nesting one partially on top of the other.
Anyway, chatting to the driver, he said he had just delivered a GT Silver with Black CGT to its new owner. The car had 900 miles on the clock. Probably not going to be driven he said. We both thought that rather a shame and in an anthropomorphic moment I felt rather sorry for that car.
I’m heading back down to Switzerland in the car at the beginning of August so just enough time for Reading to fit in a service.
Their transporter arrived this morning to collect. It is a complicated vehicle which when it arrived already housed a rather tasty cup car heading for Silverstone. They manage to fit in two cars by nesting one partially on top of the other.
Anyway, chatting to the driver, he said he had just delivered a GT Silver with Black CGT to its new owner. The car had 900 miles on the clock. Probably not going to be driven he said. We both thought that rather a shame and in an anthropomorphic moment I felt rather sorry for that car.
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