Did the North Coast 500

Garth · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:32 pm

Last weekend myself and a group of Banger Rally mates from Rust2Rome did the NC500. Left on Thursday morning and got back on Sunday night. Managed to do about 800 miles all together and had an ace time. My 944 was flawless as were the rest of the older cars bar the E30 which cracked its sump and still made it back home to Brighton! (yes... Actually Brighton haha). Anyway I'll let the pictures explain...

ALZ1933 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:22 pm

Looks like you had fun! I've been over the Bealach Na Ba several times in my old 944, fantastic road with great views. I can thoroughly recommend the route you took to any petrolhead who loves driving.

Sean Smallman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:44 pm

Well done, great photos. Would make a good article for the mag.

Oxfordshire Panther · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:49 pm

That looks spectacular - super photos too. The 944 looks terrific.

Garth · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:54 pm

ALZ1933 wrote:

Looks like you had fun! I've been over the Bealach Na Ba several times in my old 944, fantastic road with great views. I can thoroughly recommend the route you took to any petrolhead who loves driving.

Yeah it was excellent! Really the first time i've pushed the car and it handled brilliantly even in the soaking wet.

Sean Smallman wrote:

Well done, great photos. Would make a good article for the mag.

Cheers

Would be interesting to see it turned into something like that!

Oxfordshire Panther wrote:

That looks spectacular - super photos too. The 944 looks terrific.

Thanks! Unfortunately the front bumper and bonnet look much less terrific now haha. Stone chips have just killed the paint really so it'll be a front end respray at some point. Was still worth it

rav · **Posted:** Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:25 am

I really want to do this - perhaps next year if I can get some confidence in my 944. It would be a good start prior to some European Road trips.
The photos looks stunning and the car looks great!

benjj · **Posted:** Wed Mar 16, 2016 1:43 pm

Great shots.

I had a hoot up there on the LeJog rally a few years ago. The sight of dawn breaking over the islands after 27 hours non stop (and I mean non stop, flat out, fast as you can go through tiny little country roads) was just epic.

action84 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 16, 2016 4:45 pm

Looks like an epic trip . Must do that trip sometime

Garth · **Posted:** Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:33 pm

rav wrote:

I really want to do this - perhaps next year if I can get some confidence in my 944. It would be a good start prior to some European Road trips.
The photos looks stunning and the car looks great!

Just get some breakdown cover and go

Whats the worst that could happen? If I can afford to do so i'd like to take mine across to Germany this year.

@benjj , I'd love to have a tattier 944 and use it like you do. Looks really good fun.

action84 wrote:

Looks like an epic trip . Must do that trip sometime

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t'was!

benjj · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:56 am

Garth wrote:

@benjj , I'd love to have a tattier 944 and use it like you do. Looks really good fun.

You cheeky bugger, it's not (that) tatty!

Garth · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2016 7:41 pm

benjj wrote:

Garth wrote:

@benjj , I'd love to have a tattier 944 and use it like you do. Looks really good fun.

You cheeky bugger, it's not (that) tatty!

I never once said yours was tatty

I'd just love a tatty one as well as mine haha. It does look rather nice after a wash though. Probably looks better covered in mud however.

Corranga · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:07 pm

Great photos, I'm hoping to do NC500 this year or next. I've done Bealach Na Ba a few times, in my Elise though rather than the 944, my favourite road to drive (so far anyway!)

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