Bit like the lottery thread - you have to have a car to drive a particular road

[hairnet]

Where do you go and what in

Blue ridge parkway 

46 ford

Hillman imp a82

Holden torana qld coast rd

KPGC-10 up the road top gear did the budda to road safety

D max thru khao yai national park (again)

Bjering along lysevegen

1980 opel kadett n61/62 

[GeordieInExile]

Volvo 850 R, North Coast 500. I'll sleep in the boot.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, GeordieInExile said:

Volvo 850 R, North Coast 500. I'll sleep in the boot.

You might as well have a moped. At least you might get past the f@cking camper vans. ( take a tent instead of sleeping in the boot).

[Pieman]

Isle of Man TT course in an Ariel Atom.

[Boycie]

19 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Isle of Man TT course in an Ariel Atom.

Err I'm pretty sure that's has to be done by a rover product .....

 

[Pieman]

OK then, I'll stick an SD1 Vitesse lump in the back of the Atom  

[yes oui si]

Duns>Cranshaws>Longformacus>Duns triangle in my old mk3 Golf Gti. 

[chaseracer]

Dyane 720 - six Alpine passes over two days - max. alt. 2650m...

 

 😎

[Lord Sterling]

To be honest? My Jag towing my Vectra on the E40 heading to Brussels. 

Horrid road but heading in the right direction. 

[Barry Cade]

Las Vegas to San Francisco. White 1970 Dodge Challenger 440. Registration number OA5599. 

[big_al_granvia]

bealach na ba (closed to traffic in other direction ) focus wrc

dalveen pass to leadhills then mennock pass, impreza wrc

donington park with gp loop, aerial atom

m74 with no plod, bugatti veyron

[Metal Guru]

I managed a completely uninterrupted run up Hartside (from Penrith side), in the Impreza at the end of the summer. Probably as good as it gets in the U.K.  

 

[hairnet]

Done iom in cars and bikes

Maxxed them all

Did any of the nerds notice what my list have in common

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Las Vegas to San Francisco. White 1970 Dodge Challenger 440. Registration number OA5599. 

Ive done a little blue ridge parkway

Id like to do it all

[hairnet]

On 14/12/2024 at 02:22, Boycie said:

Err I'm pretty sure that's has to be done by a rover product .....

 

interesting to see how little juice was in it  (im looking for something else and saw this and realised i didnt watch the video  )

[loserone]

On 15/12/2024 at 01:18, Metal Guru said:

I managed a completely uninterrupted run up Hartside (from Penrith side), in the Impreza at the end of the summer. Probably as good as it gets in the U.K.  

 

The local speed camera crew (I saw three of them today between Alston and Brampton) are now being supported by drones.  Not sure how they are managing to accurately record speed..

[bramz7]

A822 from Crieff to Aberfeldy 

Alfa 156

A93 and A924 from Blairgowrie to Pitlochry

Alfa 156

 

In my defence I've done the former in plenty of cars! 

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

The Trans-Taiga Road in Canada almost 600km of nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Taiga_Road

In a 1980s Ford F250 4x4 with a IDI diesel engine and a camper on the back.

[Steviemillar]

This road 

 

in this car

 

[eddyramrod]

I was asked this question a few years ago for Classic Car Buyer.  I thought (correctly, as it turned out) that everyone else was going to go for the challenging/spectacular/both in agile, or at least powerful, sporty-type cars.  So I went the other way and chose Blackpool Prom during the Illuminations, in a 60s Cadillac convertible.

I've done the Pacific Coast Highway and a bit of Route 66, both in a rental Chevy Suburban; I've done Florida Keys in a rental Chrysler Sebring convertible.

The B6 coast road in Cyprus is fun and scenic, and I've done that in a variety of cars when I lived there, but easily my favourite was the back road down the mountain from Koili, where we lived first, to Kamares, the next village down.  Twisty enough to be rewarding in a 1971 Capri!  But also, nicely kept and with magnificent views down the valley it hugs one side of.  I'd love to take that road again, in anything really but ideally my old Capri.

This Capri, in fact.

[reb]

This road

In this car (actually pictured on that road)

Preferably with it closed to traffic.

It's not a particularly technical road to drive, nor is it a fast car, it's just deeply nostalgic. The hairpin is where I first did a moving handbrake turn (with four of us in the car, so it was rubbish)

[Barry Cade]

21 minutes ago, reb said:

This road

In this car (actually pictured on that road)

Preferably with it closed to traffic.

It's not a particularly technical road to drive, nor is it a fast car, it's just deeply nostalgic. The hairpin is where I first did a moving handbrake turn (with four of us in the car, so it was rubbish)

I've actually driven that road in a Delta Integrale Evo2..  quickly!

[reb]

3 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

I've actually driven that road in a Delta Integrale Evo2..  quickly!

I've been a passenger on it in a Civic VTi being driven by someone with no sense of his own mortality. It's a deceptively fun road to drive! Though these days the chance of coming face to face with an SUV taking up 3/4 of the road is probably a bit too high.

[Barry Cade]

1 minute ago, reb said:

I've been a passenger on it in a Civic VTi being driven by someone with no sense of his own mortality. It's a deceptively fun road to drive! Though these days the chance of coming face to face with an SUV taking up 3/4 of the road is probably a bit too high.

That's one of my thinking places- the wee layby overlooking the valley. A great place to sit and meditate. Last time I was there someone had dumped a load of slabs and timber over the fence.. instant rage..

[hairnet]

eddy youre fucking fired

the only road in blackpool you should be on is indeed the prom

but IN A TRAM

[eddyramrod]

Come over here and say that!

 

(I'll put the kettle on   )

[hairnet]

the only reason to go to blackpool

unless yer a modern tram perv then theres other places

[83C]

B4391 from Llangynog - Bala:

Over the top of the Berwyns and into Snowdonia. Car for the job:

WR1 Impreza, preferably with more power. A lot more power.

At Bala I’d change vehicles for the next section:

A4212 Bala to Trawsfynydd. It’s a spectacular driving road, all I want is a clear run and no speed cameras to spoil the fun. Car? My VXR8.

Sometimes though, you need to think big:

Hitting the 4 extremities of mainland Australia, Cape York (N), Cape Byron (E), South Point (S), and Steep Point (W).

Google says 4d 7h of non-stop driving, I reckon it’s more like 8 weeks to even try and do justice to the route. Car of choice is a Toyota Landcruiser 100-series:

[reb]

34 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

That's one of my thinking places- the wee layby overlooking the valley. A great place to sit and meditate. Last time I was there someone had dumped a load of slabs and timber over the fence.. instant rage..

It's not far at all from my house, it's the way I drive to get home from Glenrothes.

It's a bad road for fly tipping, along with the occasional burnt out car! Nowhere near as often as back in the day though.

[eddyramrod]

21 minutes ago, hairnet said:

the only reason to go to blackpool

Not strictly true!  Apparently it's an excellent place to find hard drugs and unconventional sex, but despite having worked in Blackpool some years ago, I managed to have zero experience of that aspect.