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Suzuka
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- 19 May 2005
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At the weekend I joined up with other owners of the 80s impact bumber cars and went for a blast through the North Yorkshire dales, Skipton -> Settle -> Hawes -> Masham. Fantastic country side and brilliant driving.
There were 14 cars on the run and it always makes me smile when you see people doing the double take and smiling/waving when they realise that there are quite a few cars in the convoy. Makes you realise that cars aren't quite the hate modern pariah that they are portrayed. A996 and silver 930 going in the opposite direction got very excited and flashed the whole convoy.
THe best thing is that even though these cars around the 20 plus year old mark and well under powered compared with the modern 996/7s, they are still pretty fast. 2nd & 3rd gear over takes are truely exhilerating, although you do run out of power quite soon, but 85 in 3rd is ok. And the race to the readline produces the most amazing noise.
As noticed by Tim in his TT thread, blasting round the bends soon makes you realise that the car was way more capable than I am, and I ran out of talent long before it did. Following a gorgeous Guards red 930 my heart was in my mouth a couple of times and the car just treated it like a walk in the park.
Migration info. Legacy thread was 128238
There were 14 cars on the run and it always makes me smile when you see people doing the double take and smiling/waving when they realise that there are quite a few cars in the convoy. Makes you realise that cars aren't quite the hate modern pariah that they are portrayed. A996 and silver 930 going in the opposite direction got very excited and flashed the whole convoy.
THe best thing is that even though these cars around the 20 plus year old mark and well under powered compared with the modern 996/7s, they are still pretty fast. 2nd & 3rd gear over takes are truely exhilerating, although you do run out of power quite soon, but 85 in 3rd is ok. And the race to the readline produces the most amazing noise.
As noticed by Tim in his TT thread, blasting round the bends soon makes you realise that the car was way more capable than I am, and I ran out of talent long before it did. Following a gorgeous Guards red 930 my heart was in my mouth a couple of times and the car just treated it like a walk in the park.
Migration info. Legacy thread was 128238
