Can anyone beat this journey??

[Markyc]

Well last week when i was drunk me being me said "yer i'll come football here's the money for a ticket". Forgot to ask where we were going and found out last night! Sunderland Vs. West Ham! and once again got well n truely ****ed i said i'll drive! I no for some of you sunderland prob isn't that far but for me and my two m8s its gonna b a long drive! It better be a good match n hope the wee lil polo makes it there and back!!


http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h6/markyc66/GetMap.png

[burgo]

i can beat that :P

[Markyc]

i can beat that :P


theres always one!! lol lol lol

[burgo]

well you asked! i was towing aswell. ill see if i can find the pics

[burgo]

here you go. set off on the saturday from kettering to southampton

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/DSCN1412.jpg

now a mk2 gte is heavy enough but it had a complete x16xe in the boot as well :P

get to southampton to drop off the engine and kip there for the night

set off in the morning to head round to swanage which is where we drop off the astra.....from there we headed up to some weird little place near swansea to pick-up another car to then head home and get back with this

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/DSCN1415.jpg

fooking long road trip but me 1.8spi cavvy did me proud

[wisewood]

If its motorway it doesnt count as driving, you just sit still for a few hours :-p

[twistysnovagte]

mark thats a top vid of the magical cossie!
check this out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-703197270740267683

[Nick]

LOL

I regularly drive from Cumbria to Portsmouth (on my own)... Also done Southampton to Fortwilliam during the night.

[Lynsey]

Well I travel 320miles every other weekend just to see the wife, that's what I call devotion lol Dougie drives from Bristol to Scotland everytime he goes home, once he was in all 4 countries (England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland) in 24 hours too!

[Jack]

I did 11 hours driving to Deutschland once in an auto derv estate vectra, with a guy sat next to me who talked shit the entire journey. Not fun. And I have to do it again around June time.

Mind you, would be handy for picking up a load of Opel parts.

[Cormac]

Me and keith drove from stansted airport to edinburgh for a night out then on to stranraer and back home to derry when i bought my mk1 last year, thats a total of 630miles

Few years back i drove from here to cardiff for rally GB which i covered Rep Ireland,N'Ireland, scotland england and wales all in the one day, Boy was i glad to see my sleeping bad that night...

[krobinson]

I drove from My house to Luxemburg to pick up 4 Nova doors from opel classic's on the border between germany and lux.

909 miles there and 909 miles back!

Keith

[Adam]

We have a winner lol

[Cormac]

For the sad git award? well done keith... lol

[novacabrio]

I wasnt far off keiths, about 870 miles to buy some parts from a spider in germany

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/novacabrio/untitled-1.jpg

[novautd]

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h6/markyc66/GetMap.png
dunno if any of you other geordie lads noticed but newcastle is ABOVE sunderland!!!, just had to point that out. ive driven from somerset to newcastle a few times but thats nowt compared to keith

[Matt2107]

Oxford to Stirling in my first ever Nova... tiny 1.2 carb.

I think I win.