Cannonball Run Start

[devonutopia]

Went to see the cannonball run start this morning at Sherborne Castle, Dorset. Suffice to say there was a few million quids worth of machinery sat on a lawn, ranging from several 911s, couple of Ferraris, Skylines, Beemers M3/M5, Supras... etc etc. (nice DB7) I have loads of juicy piccies yet to download from the camera, plus some good video footage of various cars "HAVING IT!" at the staggered start.

This is the first time I'd seen this amount of seriously nice cars all in one place at the same time and I was well impressed. The organisation looked top notch, leaving the suspense of route details only being given to the drivers at the very start.

Also have to say that Stuarts 4x4 looked nice with all the stickers and his brakes, and he suitably "HAD IT" to the stunned comments of, "Is that a Skoda?"

for the whole morning's experience.

edit: How could i forget? Ran into some dodgy Dutch bloke there with "ball & chain" in tow, and Q-jnr.

[mellowyellow]

Ran into some dodgy Dutch bloke there

Jason , that's strange , as I had one following me most of last Saturday ...........they get everywhere

[Quinten]

I too had a wonderful day out with SWMBO and Q-jr tagged along. Plenty of pictures can be found at http://www.notalot.info/gallery/cannonball . The whole atmosphere there made me want to save up money to enter next years...

[Quinten]

Oh, and seen my first vRS cop car parked at the front of the event... why anyone didn't tell him that the cannonballers had left through the backdoor is beyond me.

[devonutopia]

Originally posted by Quinten in this post

Oh, and seen my first vRS cop car parked at the front of the event... why anyone didn't tell him that the cannonballers had left through the backdoor is beyond me.

funny that....

Although, when I left the RS6 was coming back around to the front entrance... :confused:

[Tech1e]

A few of our cars are on the CannonBall. Including my Boss in the VW Transporter as a service vehicle

Our VX

[Mr.Peck]

Very nice set of pics Q.

[Quinten]

Techie, my son (take one guess, he doesn't yet have a moustache ) is completely mad about that VX... He cried when he left at the start, so I've printed that picture out on glossy photopaper and it's gonna get a prominent spot in his bedroom.

[Tech1e]

Quinten,

As and when it comes back into us i'll take some more pics for your lad

[Quinten]

Techie, let me know and I'll come round myself (as I live in Aylesbury).

[mellowyellow]

I looked at the bloke with the moustache an thought , he looks a bit strange , he reminds me of the bloke advertising the new directory enquiries ...............then I looked at his number 118 , so hopefully (for his sake) that moustache isn't genuine

[Quinten]

There were Batman and Robin, Thelma and Louise, 118 and 118, Biggles, Jake and Elwood and some sort of dog... Scared the **** out of Q-jr everytime he spotted them

[Quinten]

Cannonball Run Europe 2003

[Stuart_J]

Were back,

Car has buried a few of the Skoda Jokes

Quote from a Porsche driver "what the **** have you done to that car

Quote from a Ferrari 360 driver, "that thing handles I was struggling to keep up"

Will post more later when I have got my thoughts together

Oh & you will be suprised to know not a single problem with the car, thought I had knackered a wheel bearing but I appear to have a couple of bent wheels, cant think how I did that, I thought if Policemen were sleeping you could run over tham at 100mph

Will post more later when I have got my thoughts together

[devonutopia]

Stuart - I tried to get some vid of your skud at the start, but the damn card on the camera filled up just as you were going around that left hand bend!

It was a really good morning's entertainment and I'm dead chuffed your skud went down so well with the cannonballers.

[redbaron]

sounds like a helluva trip... might just have to play next time....

could it be time to dig out the "batman and robin" costumes ?

[Quinten]

Joker suits you better Paul

Welcome back Stuart, it's encouraging to hear that the skud survived the trip. Might just convince SWMBO that next years event should really features 2 skuds...

[Tech1e]

Welcome back.

Our crew were back yesterday looking very tired indeed. John, the chap with the Vx turbo had a few interesting tales to tell.

Scott (my boss in our AmD support van) rescued a fair few people including a TVR that broke a suspension strut on the first day :(.