Scottish Elises

I've booked ferries, hotels and tickets individually before and its fairly straightforward. Race/parking tickets can be booked on the ACO website - from memory, delivered at least a month before the event, and going direct to ACO has made it easier to get parking slots closer to the main grandstand ...

Spikes (actually 600+ studs) are for the GT. Great fun but counter-intuitive - lots of grip on sheet ice, zero on snow, great on the brakes, useless on acceleration. And they tramline in the tyre ruts - which is why you find yourself cycling unintentionally into people's driveways!

Slow off the mark as usual - just signed up on Strava. I'm the idiot commuting to work in Stavanger with the occasional jaunt back home to remind myself what dry roads and sunshine feel like. Spiked tyres going back on soon - ho hum.

Did this last year in the wee Elise. Didn't fancy the outside lane of the autobahn, so we took the overnight Autozug train from Dusseldorf to Bolzano. On the surface quite expensive, but probably gave us an extra 48 hours in Italy, saved on our hearing and, as the train was 3 hours late arriving, we...

Yeah! That was me, en route from the church in Lilliesleaf to the reception in Mellerstain. Beautiful day, beautiful new wife, and cracking drive. Just a wee bit difficult finding the handbrake and gear lever under a mass of dress (the bride's, not mine)!

Oh, for goodness sake, I've been pootling around the Borders now for 8 years and not been spotted once! I even got married in the damn thing last week and still not been seen. So enough is enough, and I'm going to self spot. :cry: Spotted - S2 cream with green stripes, sprinting away from the church...

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Thank-you very much for the assistance - looks like I'm sorted now . I'll stick some pictures up idc.

Squid.

Its a 74 Scimitar - my first car. Completed a bottom-end rebuild on it back in 94, and was then promptly mugged by a Land Rover on the A68 near Otterburn on the way home. The Scimitar lost! By the time the LR driver had conceded responsibility (Min of Agriculture and Fisheries), it had been off the ...

jdouthwaite@btinternet.com John shifted my Esprit from Moffat to Preston no worries at all. Shifts cars all over the country, drop him a line and see if he can help. One man and his transporter but very competitively priced :thumbsup I'd have absolutely no problem using him again. Rich Rich - brill...

Evening all, I'd be very grateful if anyone could point me in the direction of a reliable car transportation company - I have a project car (NLC) which has been in for a respray across in Kilmarnock but is now ready for collection - after 8 years (I kid you not :shock: )! Car is on 4 wheels but minu...

We're planning to head-off to Verona in early Sep for 10 days. I'm more interested in spending time in Italy rather than driving there so we're looking at the Newcastle ferry as already suggested, but then taking the German motorail from Dusseldorf to Verona. That would put us in Verona 36 hours aft...

Squid up in the 'Leaf'

Mainsy,

Up in Lilliesleaf.
Where we have no mobile phone coverage.
No broadband.
And the battery in my transistor radio has gone flat!
Saving up for a fridge - we're all terribly excited!

Hello,

Had my S2 for 5 years now - finally pulled my finger out to get a computer - you can't rush these things!