An ambition fulfilled - long!

944 Man · **Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2013 5:23 pm

jonjeffryes wrote:

944 Man wrote:

Youd be surprised where you can get to over a long weekend! Ive driven from Calais through Belgium to Stuttgart on Friday. From Stuttgart down through Switzerland and into Northern Italy on Saturday. From Turin-ish to Dijon on Sunday and from Dijon back to Calais on Monday morning. The Nordschleife and Spa-Francochamps circuits are both within an easy detour of the first leg too...

Simon

Simon you are describing my usual summer vacation drive - however it has been in all sorts of moderns from Impreza Sti through Jaguar / Saab / Mercedes etc. However in the first week of September we took my wifes Mini Cooper S which was a real scream!

Next time it will definately be in the 944

jon

It was actually the 2007 Scumball3000 Jon! In my avatar you can see us meeting Stuttgarts finest - they werent happy to meet us.

The car was superb and didnt miss a beat, probably turning in well over 30mpg over the whole trip. Equal that in an Impreza!

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Althejazzman · **Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2013 5:24 pm

I can only hope that Jon Mitchell's suggested road trip is half as much fun as this! See the link next to my 924 in my sig:

Sean Smallman · **Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2013 6:24 pm

Sounds like a great trip Jon, another box ticked

We covered 1000's of miles in Europe when we had the '44 Cab.

Happy days and the 44 always had people waving as we tootled along.

I love driving in Europe, much more fun than driving over here. I can't wait to go back :bounce:

broady_6 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:15 pm

fire3500 wrote:

Perhaps without incurring the faff of organised trips (lovely as they unquestionably are), we could maintain a thread where 944 owners who are making continental trips could post some broad specifics and increase the opportunity for a bit of a high-speed waving exercise in "forn parts"?

I'm trying to bully/coerce/inspire/trick Broady_6 into a 944 Euroforay to some place where we can drive at speeds unthinkable on UK roads (ahem), and with even more dramatic scenery than North Lincolnshire (if you can imagine such a thing, no? Me neither). If we manage to get our act together I'd be happy to post a rough itinerary and wave at any other Porsches en route... it's *always* fun to do the waving thing!

yes I have now read it and ive always tended to drive south from the tunnel so I like the sound of 4 days heading east a bit. Leave on a weds night get back on a monday?

lindsayhbrown · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:58 pm

I never took the 944S across the Channel, but last year I took the 911 to Classic Le Mans in convoy with tipec, my first foreign driving trip and the car never missed a beat. On the way back I was solo, and did just over 500 miles in one stint (apart from the Eurotunnel bit) with my then 11 year old son as navigator, thoroughly enjoyed the trip and I think this is when I eventually got the 911 thing (those of you that know me know that I was having problems getting to grips with the 911) and would recommend CLM to anyone

fire3500 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:48 pm

broady_6 wrote:

fire3500 wrote:

Perhaps without incurring the faff of organised trips (lovely as they unquestionably are), we could maintain a thread where 944 owners who are making continental trips could post some broad specifics and increase the opportunity for a bit of a high-speed waving exercise in "forn parts"?

I'm trying to bully/coerce/inspire/trick Broady_6 into a 944 Euroforay to some place where we can drive at speeds unthinkable on UK roads (ahem), and with even more dramatic scenery than North Lincolnshire (if you can imagine such a thing, no? Me neither). If we manage to get our act together I'd be happy to post a rough itinerary and wave at any other Porsches en route... it's *always* fun to do the waving thing!

yes I have now read it and ive always tended to drive south from the tunnel so I like the sound of 4 days heading east a bit. Leave on a weds night get back on a monday?

I think a plan emerges...

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