Grossglockner first timer

Grossglockner first timer

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Tuesday 27th June 2017
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As part of trip to Austria I decided on a whim to hire a car for the weekend and drive 't top.
Local rental place had not much choice so beggars being choosers I picked an Abarth 595 as the most likely fun and it turned out to be a hoot in sport mode.
Weekend trip coincided with a massive Vespa tour of thousands of nutters many of whom didn't reach the top or almost died trying.

The views were stunning, the road fabulous. The little Fiat was fun, altho the brakes were steaming after a proper hard thrash up and back down. 200 euro for 2 days fun. Would have loved to do it in my R8 but this was cool tbh. 30c at the bottom and 3c at the top.

Saw many fast bikes, many decent cars on there and just generally lapped it up, fabulous motoring fun.







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Wednesday 19th July 2017
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you must have seen different scenery to the one i saw then as in the pics above! :-)
i cant comment on other places, but the scenery was rather nice the day we drove it. £30 toll, as a one off, not the end of the world, we had a full day on there with the stop at the glacier etc.

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Wednesday 19th July 2017
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I had a hire car for the day in that area, I did ok :-)

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Wednesday 26th July 2017
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I got there about 9.30am and spent an hour or two caning the ass out of the car. Mid afternoon was chokka with scooters as there was a big rally on. We never got stuck in any traffic luckily.