shite taking you far away

[pshome]

inspired by the "shite earning their keep!" thread...

 

How far did your shite carry you (and back, i hope)?

 

504 CC in Romania, 1100km beeline.

 

 

504 GL in Albania, 1150km beeline.

Some pretty rough roads, fun!

 

well ... FTP in the mountains. A few strokes with the hammer and on we moved.

 

504GL in Morocco 2700km beeline.

 

 

504 GL in Iceland 2800km beeline

 

 

 

P.S.

beeline calculator: http://www.distancefromto.net/

 

P.P.S  except for the seized brake on the way to Albania, never had a breakdown.

[chaseracer]

The Blingo went to Berlin in 2010 and to Trollhattan earlier this year.  It covers the ground surprisingly well.

[Junkman]

Leeds!

 

[richardmorris]

I've driven the 2cv round France loads. Furthest in one trip was in 2000 i think when our local club rented a few (non) mobile homes in Grasse in the south of France. I did 2,500 miles in two weeks.

 

I drove the X1/9 to Alsace and back for my 40th birthday a five years ago. I did about 1000 miles then in five days.

[lesapandre]

Spain in a Citroen AX from London  - 1100+miles 

[castros_bro]

UK reg, far far away and seems much moar far far away..

 

 

 

[DodgeRover]

Those 504 shots are wonderful!

[Guest]

Frankfurt in a £300 MGF

 

Berlin and Nurburgring in a £250 W124 1000 miles in a day.

 

Italian lakes in an old 9-5

 

Nurburgring on an old £800 ZZR

 

Gdnask and Berlin on an old BMW RS. Did 1038 miles in 23 hours.

 

Also done Berlin in a £250 Alfa 145 Cloverleaf- can't find pics though, but this is the car

 

Italian Lakes and Swizzerland /Austria/Bavaria in a old Vito.

 

All include 1000 mile round trip from here to Dover.

[Stanky]

I have no pictorial evidence of this but a Mk2 Mondeo estate I owned took me, bortherly_Stanky and a very old friend from Fareham to Bamburg in germany via Reims, Strasbourg & Mannheim and took in Essen, Groeningen, Rotterdam and Calais on the way back.

 

it had 148k on the odo at the time, managed 125mph on an autobahn, a bootful of gig stuff, cooked breakfast pastries on the manifold, and covered 1500 miles in 5 days in utmost comfort.

 

Subsequently it was neglected to death in 12 short months by a relative which was a shame.

[pshome]

more 504 fun

 

France,  700km beeline.

 

 

Switzerland 450km

 

 

Norway 1700km

 

[seth]

Almost the furthest (Schlumpf collection in Mulhouse is a bit further away) but definitly the highest, at the top of Grand Ballon in Alsace.

 

[Six-cylinder]

1600 miles around France, Holland and Germany in a week.

[Junkman]

Oberbayern.

 

[Six-cylinder]

 

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Is this your 504 Cabriolet, I have a 4 cylinder in the same colour. 

[pshome]

Oberbayern.

 

ouch, how did that happen?

[pshome]

Is this your 504 Cabriolet, I have a 4 cylinder in the same colour. 

yep, 1977 V6

http://altefranzosen.de/garage/charlotte.html

[Six-cylinder]

yep, 1977 V6

http://altefranzosen.de/garage/charlotte.html

 

Now that looks green, I thought it was grey in that first photo?

[Guest Hooli]

ouch, how did that happen?

 

Someone hit him from behind?

[pshome]

Now that looks green, I thought it was grey in that first photo?

That pic in St. Tropez was taken at night, looks indeed greyish in that light. The color is "1396 gris fumee" which is more green than grey.

[pshome]

Someone hit him from behind?

nobody in bavaria would dare hitting junkman from behind, he was certainly training for the DAF backwards race.

[Guest Hooli]

Top of Scotland in £180 Saab, Kyle of Tongue.

 

 

I can't see to find many pics of daft places in europe that include a bike now well over 100k, furthest was Prague.

 

The first few posts mean Albania is on the list, along with Norway etc that already was.

 

 

[pompei]

Turin in a Fiat 500, over the Alps.  Never again.

[bramz7]

 

Drove 475 miles in this in 10 hours. 3 days after passing my test.

 

Absolute amatuer compared to some of you though!

 

Drove the same back a few days later.

[Junkman]

 Why should I drive away if I don't even like it at home?

[Shep Shepherd]

I drove The Volvo to Magdeburg and back in 2010. It took the journey in its stride

[Cleon-Fonte]

I drove the Sirion to Scotland once, which is the equivalent of driving several thousand miles in one sitting in a normal car. For some reason I only seem to have taken photos of it in dull Scottish car parks, so here it is in a dull Scottish car park.

 

 

Then last year I took the BX to the west coast of Ireland, here seen resting nearly 500 miles from home.

 

 

[kfsgo]

Cheating a bit by using another continent, but I guess my furthest photo (as opposed to furthest point travelled in it, which would be a fair bit further) would be Carcross, Yukon in a ~£600 (bugger me cars are expensive over here!) 1999 Chevrolet Malibu:

 

 

Internet says ~2500km road distance from starting point in Vancouver; picture taken at 11:30pm...

[dollywobbler]

Another mega-mile trip in a Sirion here. Dunnet Head, north of Scotland. We drove back from here to home in one day. That was quite full on!

 

I still miss that car...

[chaseracer]

Hairnet will be along presently, with tales of two-wheeled derring-do... 

[Junkman]

When I was still living in Munich, so I wasn't even 20 yet, three friends and I decided on 1st April in a pub to give my WBoD, a terminally rotten

BMW 528-non-i its last blast before scrapping it and drive it all the way to Lake Starnberg, usually a half hour drive, only that we naturally agreed

on the city of Kano in Nigeria for our halfway break.

We actually reached Kano after an adventurous three weeks, but decided there to cancel the final leg of the trip this time around and take

one of those aeroplanes home. I know what PShome will say to this, 504, etc, etc.

 

In the late Eighties I drove my freshly OMGBRNFND 1951 Citroen 15 six from Welkenraedt in Belgium (where I lived at the time) to the North Cape,

from there to Portopalo and then back home. The only defect on the entire trip was a blown headlight bulb near Fulda.

 

In the early Nineties I assembled a 1926 ex-WoD Indian 101 I had bought in eighteen boxes and rode it around the Mediterranean (sp?),

i.e. from Belgium via Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Italy, Switzerland, France

and Luxembourg back home to Belgium.

The bike was one of Katharina 'Steilwand Kitty' Mathieu's wall, a regular attraction on the Munich Oktoberfest since the 1930s.

After the trip I donated it to the Munich City Museum, where it is on display with an original section of Kitty's wall.

 

In the mid Nineties, after returning from the Power Big Meet in Västeras, I decided to give my '61 Imperial an Italian tune up, so I drove it

from my home in Belgium to Luxembourg City in Luxembourg, from there to Luxemburg in Kyrgyzstan and then back home.

 

Throughout the Nineties, I used a '78 Caprice for my business, which required driving all over Europe, about 50k miles a year.

It had 180,000 miles on it when I bought it and I drove it another 380,000 miles. The cylinder heads were never off the engine,

but it required a gearbox rebuild in Dublin and a rear axle swap in Aschaffenburg, plus the annual ritual of a front suspension rebuild,

ball joints, bushes, track rods, etc. The latter probably wouldn't have been necessary had I maintained the lubrication intervals,

but since this wasn't feasible when on the road, I just drove it for a year and had it rebuilt.

 

Nowadays I drive fewer than 3,000 miles a year - with all cars combined.

I have absolutely no inclination to drive a single mile further. I have seen the World and can't stand most of it.