Category: roadtrip
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apres vanfest
well, that was vanfest… friday night get packed and headup to the malvern hills, wreathed in mist and rainclouds. unload the gear and set up the stall inside one of the huge sheds there… due to an administrative cockup (i forgot…) we had to take whatever space there was left tp trade and ended up…
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off to deva dubs and rods show
we’re off for the weekend toi deva dubs and rods showq at chester race course…. i’ve been running around all morning, finished stuff on the website for emma, emmmacaton.com with loads of her new jewellery and sculpture on it, including the incredibly disturbing roedeer foetus sculptures….. trucked down to the printers to checkout the colours…
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off to newquay, again
well it’s friday and it’s raining, it must be time to drive to newquay! yes, it run to the sun time again…. …if you’re in doubt as to how much i love going to newquay then just read last years diary entry newquay ! all the worst things about a town, BUT by the beach!…
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more big bang
we all woke to a dry but overcast day.. the track dryers were out hoovering the moisture off the track and all looked promising… all morning to run qualifying and all afternoon to race… off to the startline and into the staging area…..then BANG, it hit me like a steam train… back behind the wheel,…
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big bang 2004
it’s saturday morning at big bang 2004 at santa pod, round 2 of the vwdrc. we arrived and set up pits on friday afternoon after a monster drive, with 5 of us in the split and packed to the roof windows with tools, spares, pit stuff, food and all the stock and stuff for the…
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here’s the snow!
more images from avoriaz last week
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look where the ak racecar was seven days ago today !
parked at about 6,000ft in the ski resort of Avoriaz in the the French Alps. all i need to do now is change the snowtyres for slicks and it’s off to the track 🙂
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and we’re back !
after over THREE THOUSAND kilometers and fourteen litres of engine oil sambasaurus is safely snuggled up next to the orange fugly on the drive… the return journey was a monster session, having left Morzine in the french alps at about 4pm i drove straight though to calais, onto the tunnel train (after a none-too-brief chat…
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in the snow !
after nineteen hours of driving from calais, with a stop over night in dijon and a variety of twiddling we’ve arrived in Morzine in the french alps, about 70km outside geneva and sitting at about 1500m we’re sat drinking coffee in a snowy wonderland. the journey was generally uneventful, the first day was almost completely…
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snow tyres on my racecar!
after MUCH sweating and swearing VWSP97 is now sat resplendent on it’s winter tyres!…. … got the tyres swapped onto smlla 5 lug hubs yesterday and started to fit up the back ones… doh… lowered slambasaurus… wont’ fit in the arches.. bus falls off the jackl and axle stands… need to jack the bus up…