Tommy's A-series Misery - Resuming normal programming

[Tommyboy12]

Coming up on Glasgow!

 

[Tommyboy12]

And we're back in England! Montego is still running well. Although definitely going to have some time off from being in it after this weekend 😂

[Skut]

Outstanding. In summer I was passenger in this tired S series saloon for 200 miles so I salute your perseverance covering 1400 miles in an A series engined version. That’s taken some bloody mindedness to achieve.

The estate is a handsome old hector compared to the saloon.  
 

[Tommyboy12]

And I'm home! 1447 miles complete and effectively just about 3000 miles go get these two pictures 😅

 

[Tenmil Socket]

Just now, Tommyboy12 said:

And I'm home! 1447 miles complete and effectively just about 3000 miles go get these two pictures 😅

 

Legend!

 

[junkyarddog]

It's amazing the ground you can cover in absolute shite.

Well done.

[Mrs6C]

16 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

And I'm home! 1447 miles complete and effectively just about 3000 miles go get these two pictures 😅

 

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! 

Jolly well done! 

[sharley17194]

Amazing! Glad we've done it, let's not do it again!

[grogee]

Excellent work. You've proved that nobody should ever have a nice car, and A-series Montegos should be standard issue for everyone. 

[Saabnut]

Congratulations  

Disco and trailer standing down!  

[tooSavvy]

2 hours ago, grogee said:

Excellent work. You've proved that nobody should ever have a nice car, and A-series Montegos should be standard issue for everyone. 

East Germany = Trabant.......

*that was Opiate 4the People NOT!

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, sharley17194 said:

Amazing! Glad we've done it, let's not do it again!

Not inclined for another underpowered, under funded, and under considered challenge? Maybe some multi-country rally?

[Noel Tidybeard]

7 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Legend!

 

Pillock!

 

FIFY

[sharley17194]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Not inclined for another underpowered, under funded, and under considered challenge? Maybe some multi-country rally?

I think by now we've gathered both Tom and I are a suckers for self inflicted pain. Of course this isn't the end....its not even the beginning! for me its the 3rd year of trying to get something shite and making it do things it shouldn't....

1st year was 306s to Scotland 

2nd year KAs to John o Groats

3rd year Robins round the Dales & Monteynogo and AX LETJOG

4th year....the end of the world?

[Six-cylinder]

With two car friends we got excited and decided we needed to do some European touring trips before we got too old.  

We drove open cars in the rain, went up mountains into the snow and down again until our discs glowed red hot, drove the Nuburgring fast in luxo barges, broke down several times, got taken to the home of a French garage owner who fixed one of the cars, to drink wine, had to return to Germany a week later to collect my repaired car and had a recovery truck bring me home from France. Eaten picnic lunches laid out on the bonnet of an MGB with a view, got bumped up the back at the Switzerland/Italy boarder by a Swiz policeman with a gun and many more adventures. So many good memories.

Just an idea…………………

[wuvvum]

9 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

got bumped up the back at the Switzerland/Italy boarder by a Swiz policeman with a gun

Sounds painful...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

4 hours ago, sharley17194 said:

I think by now we've gathered both Tom and I are a suckers for self inflicted pain. Of course this isn't the end....its not even the beginning! for me its the 3rd year of trying to get something shite and making it do things it shouldn't....

1st year was 306s to Scotland 

2nd year KAs to John o Groats

3rd year Robins round the Dales & Monteynogo and AX LETJOG

4th year....the end of the world?

A good mate of mine once said he'd love to strip out a 2CV, convert it to two person pedal power and cycle it from LE to JOG for charidee. This was years ago, way before Guy Martin built pedal powered track beasts and set records.

There's potential there...

[sharley17194]

19 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

A good mate of mine once said he'd love to strip out a 2CV, convert it to two person pedal power and cycle it from LE to JOG for charidee. This was years ago, way before Guy Martin built pedal powered track beasts and set records.

There's potential there...

my level of fitness is such that just the thought of converting a car to pedal power is leaving me out of breath.

[sharley17194]

57 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Sounds painful...

I'm not one  to judge...

[Tommyboy12]

Definitely need to do something European next year. We were deciding our steed on the way back from Scotch Corner yesterday. Hot hatches, big saloons, automatics. All sorts were discussed! For now the Montego gets a well deserved rest.

[sharley17194]

Im still one for taking something i already own, maybe the puma!

25 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Definitely need to do something European next year. We were deciding our steed on the way back from Scotch Corner yesterday. Hot hatches, big saloons, automatics. All sorts were discussed! For now the Montego gets a well deserved rest.

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Definitely need to do something European next year. We were deciding our steed on the way back from Scotch Corner yesterday. Hot hatches, big saloons, automatics. All sorts were discussed! For now the Montego gets a well deserved rest.

I drove a tired Volvo estate to the North Cape in Norway in 2014. So it's time for a Montego to do the same?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

22 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

It's amazing the ground you can cover in absolute shite.

This is taking it to extremes

 

Anyone want to try LEJOG in an Invacar? Sounds like a job for @LightBulbFun

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

This is taking it to extremes

I was quite impressed by that, until I read he plays his bagpipes when taking a break. Sorry, I just do not find that apPEELing.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I drove a tired Volvo estate to the North Cape in Norway in 2014. So it's time for a Montego to do the same?

North Cape then Tarifa = WIN.

[wuvvum]

16 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

North Cape then Tierra del Fuego = WIN.

FTFY

[mk2_craig]

3 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

 

16 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

North Cape in a base model Renner Fuego = WIN.

 

Fixed further. 

[somewhatfoolish]

Ambitious without a wading kit and snorkel.

[wuvvum]

Wait until winter and drive across the Bering Strait?

[Liggle]

Great work. My next rally is UK based but a 1.2 engine limit for extra misery! Most north, east, south and west points of Britain in 5 days.