Land's End to Ness Point, midsummers evening 2017

Land's End to Ness Point, midsummers evening 2017

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heebeegeetee

28,591 posts

247 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Waiting for the off.

K50 DEL

9,227 posts

227 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Awesome, best of luck all

Martin350

3,775 posts

194 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Nice photo of lots of nice machinery there!

The weather on my set-off in 2013 was somewhat different! laugh



It was almost gale force wind and rain, and it rained for about the first 150 miles, which made it a little more intense!


Hope you all had a good night! driving

Edited by Martin350 on Sunday 25th June 02:23

Skywalker

3,269 posts

213 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Morning folks - hope that you had a good and safe run. Looking forward to some photos.

Writhing

489 posts

108 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Cracking turn-out. 13 cars in all.

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(theres another BMW in between the Fiesta and grey estate car)

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We left Lands End at 2131 and arrived at Ness Point at 0331. We had one fuel stop and 2 driver changes.

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Sunrise

Writhing

489 posts

108 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Ok, lets try that again.








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heebeegeetee

28,591 posts

247 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Waiting for the start. There was debate over when to leave - as the sun is setting or when it has set and is out of sight. smile






Then coincidentally a few of us all arrived at The Buck fuel stop near Andover, 228 miles on.




But yah boo sucks, no sunrise, just the greyness getting lighter.


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Is there any way to post videos here?

simonwedge

743 posts

179 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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I was part of Team Blaine, and was driving the white Golf GTI. Some of my pics below.

It's a great event, good crack, not easy though. Absolute pleasure to be driving on roads that aren't full of numpties though. The worst bit was the 3 1/2 hour drive home straight after finishing.

Was funny to note that we had 3 hire cars on the run!










Edited by simonwedge on Sunday 25th June 12:30

The JM

133 posts

224 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Just made it home an hour ago! 987 miles in total from yesterday at 5pm when I left home for Lands End.

Great to meet you all and share a good drive. I am now deaf, and have paid off the government's deficit via Shell petrol stations, but am very glad I did it!

I think it was brilliant that everybody made the sunrise in time and I loved the diversity of cars and routes, despite which we all arrived within 45 minutes of each other. Brilliant!


Bluesgirl

766 posts

90 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Thanks from me too to everyone for a great trip. What a lovely collection of cars and really good fun travelling together for parts of the journey. I wanted to have a closer look at the blue E36 (I think), but got distracted and didn't get a chance. It looked very cool indeed.

Wish I'd known that the Monaro has a 6 litre engine - that explains a lot!!

Thanks also to the BiB for only giving us a warning pass on the Hogsback. My niece had palpitations for a while after that (she was driving at the time). We were fairly sedate for a while ;-)

By the way, what's with the kamikaze wildlife on the A12? Birds, chicks, bambis all out for a dawn stroll along the white lines.... Sadly one of them didn't make it.


blaineuk

2,614 posts

246 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Bluesgirl said:
Wish I'd known that the Monaro has a 6 litre engine - that explains a lot
Lol and it's super charged 😁😁

Was a great night, good to meet all who came.

Mike1977

11 posts

81 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Bluesgirl said:
By the way, what's with the kamikaze wildlife on the A12? Birds, chicks, bambis all out for a dawn stroll along the white lines.... Sadly one of them didn't make it.
We had the same problem. We and another crew were 20 minutes apart and both saw the same huge deer just stood by the side of the road watching the cars go by. Must be a member here. Thankfully no furry critters had to die to allow us to get to our destination though.

iamdjka

11 posts

81 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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Hey guys!

Looks like everyone had a good run last night too! Here's my YouTube video of the experience! Hope y'all like it smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEV8QPckWRY

Hopefully see you all next year smile

pingu393

7,715 posts

204 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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Epic fun doing these trips.

All the points of the compass + sunset-to-sunrise + highest tarmacked road in UK

Every county in GB

I've not read the previous 8 pages, so I don't know if you know, but...

http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/miscellanea/UK_SRSS/u...

Doesn't stop it being an epic West-East smile

blueroom

85 posts

192 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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I love that so many people are still doing this event. When I came up with the original idea back in 2009, I never thought that it would still be going on 8 years later. Well done to all who took part this year. Chris

BURNIE

1,152 posts

239 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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2nd that great pics and right upStill buzzing.

BuzyG said:
Great write up, much enjoyed the read & the pics.

BURNIE

1,152 posts

239 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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Honda S2000 broken? never.
James2593 said:
Hope everything works out, hope to see you later.

I'm ready to go, just waiting to pick up my co-driver. Might make it to the station house depending on time. It's a 6 ish hour drive and we're setting off at 1.30pm.

See you all at lands end.

Miglia 888

1,002 posts

146 months

Thursday 6th July 2017
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Hi to Byf_biggy in the Golf taking the longer way through Lowestoft, Bluesgirl in the 911, Heebeegeetee the fellow MINI owner, and Don the fellow Mercedes owner with the lovely SLK - great chatting & many thanks indeed for the Merc servicing specialist recommendation.

It was very nice to meet everyone, and well done to all who made it to Ness Point though the night.

So, anyone up for a dawn to dusk Ness Point to Lands End, on December 21st or 23rd/24th... smile

blaineuk

2,614 posts

246 months

Friday 7th July 2017
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Miglia 888 said:
Hi to Byf_biggy in the Golf taking the longer way through Lowestoft, Bluesgirl in the 911, Heebeegeetee the fellow MINI owner, and Don the fellow Mercedes owner with the lovely SLK - great chatting & many thanks indeed for the Merc servicing specialist recommendation.

It was very nice to meet everyone, and well done to all who made it to Ness Point though the night.

So, anyone up for a dawn to dusk Ness Point to Lands End, on December 21st or 23rd/24th... smile
The problem is it's very close to Christmas, lots of people pottering about, plus getting round London at 8/9 in the morning, I don't think there would be much chance of making it.

Ripley079

12 posts

73 months

Monday 12th February 2018
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Hi. My first post coming right up.

Anyone doing this this year. 21st falls on a Thursday? I wouldn't be able to make the Saturday though.