Highways to heaven.
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Autocar have just published a magazine called 'Tiff Needells guide to the worlds fastest cars' they are all there including the Tamora and the Tuscans ! well written and illustrated IMO.
one of the features in the mag are some roads that can still be 'driven' up and down the country a couple of them I know like the Tiverton to Minehead road and the A360 from Stonehenge, Tiff describes about 10 of them .
With summer just around the corner ( I whish) what is your favourite bit of road, where you can actually use your car without worrying too much about the boys in blue, gatso's etc.
Guy
one of the features in the mag are some roads that can still be 'driven' up and down the country a couple of them I know like the Tiverton to Minehead road and the A360 from Stonehenge, Tiff describes about 10 of them .
With summer just around the corner ( I whish) what is your favourite bit of road, where you can actually use your car without worrying too much about the boys in blue, gatso's etc.
Guy
The M18 at any time!
The A66 over the Pennines in the middle of the night;
Kirkstone Pass, out of peak season;
A38 south of Derby;
The M74, especially flat-out in the company van;
The Great Broughton to Helmsley road, N. Yorks. (more motorcycle fatalities than any other comparable road in England, apparently)
Ian
The A66 over the Pennines in the middle of the night;
Kirkstone Pass, out of peak season;
A38 south of Derby;
The M74, especially flat-out in the company van;
The Great Broughton to Helmsley road, N. Yorks. (more motorcycle fatalities than any other comparable road in England, apparently)
Ian
Certain stretches of the A82 through Glencoe on route for Fort William.
I seriously think I could crack European velocities along there!
I suspect Scotland may have other such routes hidden away from the heathen and frankly, good on 'em!
Wales too, of course but most of England's shagged (sheep fancier parts excepted, to some extent but you rarely get the wondrous solitude enjoyed by the highlanders).
For proper barrelling, you have to take a ferry though.
I seriously think I could crack European velocities along there!
I suspect Scotland may have other such routes hidden away from the heathen and frankly, good on 'em!
Wales too, of course but most of England's shagged (sheep fancier parts excepted, to some extent but you rarely get the wondrous solitude enjoyed by the highlanders).
For proper barrelling, you have to take a ferry though.
Huh. I don't think we should presume that the boys in blue don't know this already. It probably comes down to how high on a given force's list of priorities, speed policing comes.
Northern Scotland, towards Thurso etc., has some excellent driving roads. But since there's probably only two police cars to cover a million square miles, and the local force concentrates on sheep-rustling and hooch-brewing, you stand a fair chance of being able to blast along without much aggro. And if you do disappear into the scenery, it's your own daft fault.. the way it should be!
Ian
Northern Scotland, towards Thurso etc., has some excellent driving roads. But since there's probably only two police cars to cover a million square miles, and the local force concentrates on sheep-rustling and hooch-brewing, you stand a fair chance of being able to blast along without much aggro. And if you do disappear into the scenery, it's your own daft fault.. the way it should be!
Ian
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