I need some advice. Me and a mate have been saving up for my 40th this coming year. Our budget is £500(ish) each and I'm not sure what to do with it. It'll have to be in the summer holidays for various reasons, but that gives me chance to book things in plenty of time.

I want it to be something car related, so my initial thoughts are:

1. Rally experience - a weekend of driving if possible

2. Nurburgring - possibly not my own car as I don't think it'll make it there let alone go round

3. Leg of the WRC - has to be in the school summer holidays though

4. Two weekend experiences for the money.

We usually go to see a round of the BTCC and did Knockhill last season, so something a bit more adventurous is needed. I'd appreciate any advice or stories of things you've done as I'm sure many of you have undertaken all sorts of car based adventures.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Not quite car related you could try what we did with a mate of mine on his.

Clay pigeon shoot in the morning.

Karting in the afternoon.

Then good meal and **** up in the evening.

I'd do some sort of trackday or rally thing in some nice car (or 2) with some professional instruction! I did a day at Mallory on a Honda 600 bike which was fun, but I recon it'd be better on 4 wheels (as they told ud before fall off and you're out, so we all tip toed round)

have you seen this thread?

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/260306-supercar-experiece-days/

Agree with above sod the experiance days, get the 106 booked on a couple of trackdays,

150 quid for day and rest on petrol, tyres and brakes

I'm 40 this year as well.

Nothing planned here, but for just over the first 3 months of me being 40

my wife will still be in her twenties. That's something to celebrate

There was a thread on the 3 series forums where they bought 3 e36 328i s for less than £1k, then rented a stock car oval for a day, and just raced/demo dery'd them. Looked like epically good fun, and could be in budget.

If it was down to that list only though, I'd go for the rally weekend, as long as there was a decent amount of driving in there. Chris Harris did a video with an E30 in where they go to a rally school in Wales - could be a location to consider?

Edit - wasn't trying to embed that, just thought it might be helpful to find the location!

Edited 3 January, 201313 yr by TriggerFish

I'm 40 this year as well.

Nothing planned here, but for just over the first 3 months of me being 40

my wife will still be in her twenties. That's something to celebrate

You're only as old as the women you feel

ps. I'm also 40 this year!

Easy Jet to Prague, and blow it on some Czech hookers

Easy Jet to Prague, and blow it on some Czech hookers

or rearrange:

On Jet to Prague, and easy Czech hookers blow it some

Right. I'm off out tonight with my mate who'll be involved in whatever I chose to do. I'll put the suggestions forward and see what we come up with after a few beers.

Thanks for the ideas so far, all of them have some good points. I'd like to do as much driving as possible and it sounds as though the supercar stuff leaves people feeling a bit short changed and wanting more.

I did a rally day a few years back in Wales with a bloke called Phil Price.

http://www.philprice.co.uk/

I was drained by the end of it because of the amount of driving and energy it used up. That's the kind of thing I think I'm after. The idea of taking the Rallye to a track sounds brilliant, but I like it too much to break it - plus it needs to get me to work every day!

A round of the WRC still appeals, but they don't come cheap. Having said that, I'm only going to be 40 once, so I don't want to have any regrets about saving a few quid but wishing I'd done something else. Hmm....

I'll let you know where we get with this.

You can hire a supercar for a day for about £450. Gadget show hired an aston DB9 recently in this way. What a day that would be.

Bit late to this, but you could spend a day with Don Palmer at Bruntingthorpe (http://www.donpalmer.co.uk/carcontrol.htm ). Brilliant fun, huge run offs so you can't hit anything and I can guarantee you'll learn a lot too. There's also a bit of competition when the stop watch comes out

At this time of year it shouldn't be too wearing on tyres, etc either.

Chris