Help please

[SUSIT]

Evening all, I am heading to the deep south on Wed evening by plane to collect my new tow car, going to head back to scotland via the Donnington collection at Nottingham, In view of the situation with flooding down south any advice re driving from Brighton to Nottingham and areas to avoid gratefully recieved.


Cheers

Stephen

[strat6v]

just the underwater bits steve, unless you've bought a stalwart :eek:

Not sure on your timings but if you need a stop over for the night then the spare room is free.

[CorseChris]

Avoid Worcestershire & Gloucestershire....M5 not a good call at present as it's liable to get V busy/blocked if we get more rain ..but I doubt you'd be coming this far west anyway.

Bloody good job I got my scuba diver quali is all I can say......

...still, quite proud of the high-water mark on the old Alfa :)

[catswhiskers]

Hi Stephen,

I would say your best route would be M23 out of Brighton, M25 anti clockwise to M1 and then M1 straight up. If you have an idea of what time you'll be travelling and fancy a coffee and a break, I'm only 2 minutes off M1 junction 27.
I used to do that run fairly regularly in about 3 hours. :)

Mick

[SUSIT]

Thanks John and Mick,
Will be heading up about 8pm wed stay in a travel lodge Just north of London I think then head to donnington thursday morning Spoke to Rob about meeting up thursday evening. Persuded a friend to come along to share the driving and more or less sorted the travel lodges out.
You working Friday morning Mick?

Stephen

[Swamprat33]

Hi Stephen, I am also close to the M1 Junction 13 (Milton Keynes) or M25 / A41 Hemel junction up to Aylesbury.

I will be heading upto Silverstone on Friday morning for the 1st day of the Historic.

Cheers

Tim

[SUSIT]

Hi Stephen, I am also close to the M1 Junction 13 (Milton Keynes) or M25 / A41 Hemel junction up to Aylesbury.

I will be heading upto Silverstone on Friday morning for the 1st day of the Historic.

Cheers

Tim

I'll take your phone number with me in case of problems if that is ok, would be great to stay for silverstone but my mate coming with me is a Steward on the Kames stages rally on Sat in Ayrshire so we need to be back in Glasgow on Friday night.

[Bernard]

Stevie
I will be at Silverstone Friday also........Sorry..... carp timing !
Have a good trip
Phil

[catswhiskers]

Thanks John and Mick, You working Friday morning Mick?Stephen

Stephen, you should realise by now that according to John (strat6v) I'm never at work. :D
However, as it happens, I'm not at work Friday :o but I have an appointment booked at Noble Motorsport in Chesterfield at 9am so I anticipate being there until around lunch time.
Top secret though so can't tell you about it. :p

Suppose it will be too late to meet up if you have to be back by Friday evening.

Mick

[strat fan]

Hi Mick, let us know how you get on at Noble, I have heard a few unfavourable reports about them lately. Like they won't let you in the room/near whilst they are dynoing & to add insult to injury they make you sign an indemnity to say that they are not responsible if it all goes wrong & blows upwhilst you are not there.

Best regards

[catswhiskers]

Now you tell me :eek:

Seriously, when I've spoken to them, they seem a very friendly bunch but, forewarned is forearmed as they say.
I wonder if that only applies to their 'shootout sessions' that they run for clubs.
Apparently, on Saturday mornings, they open the rolling road for clubs and do maximum power runs to see who has the biggest BHP figures.
All sounds like an ego trip to me. :)

I'll let you know how I get on. :)

Mick

[SUSIT]

Stephen, you should realise by now that according to John (strat6v) I'm never at work. :D
However, as it happens, I'm not at work Friday :o but I have an appointment booked at Noble Motorsport in Chesterfield at 9am so I anticipate being there until around lunch time.
Top secret though so can't tell you about it. :p

Suppose it will be too late to meet up if you have to be back by Friday evening.

Mick

Well when your old enough to retire! ;) why not.
I am afraid will need to head north friday morning, may be stoping in shefield to look at a car for her indoors as well. Thank goodness I only change cars every 9 years or so :D
Would really have liked to go to Silverstone but no time this year (again)
Have a good day at Noble. Best guess TB and Emarald 3D ;) but will wait to see what your up too :D

Cheers
Stephen

[SUSIT]

Stevie
I will be at Silverstone Friday also........Sorry..... carp timing !
Have a good trip
Phil


Your oot o luck young Bernard, :D had a look at the silverstone site and me mate is drooling so going to adapt our plans and weather permiting head to silverstone on Friday am, should manage to hang about until 3ish :D :D :D
Going to keep checking the weather, at the moment its saying sunny with showers.

Stephen

[Shaun II]

I can confirm Gloucestershire is a bit damp, my car got away lightly when a burst canal started to flood the area. Bit close for the donor car too:

Apparently the mainswater has now been cut off, what is the world comming to?

[Bernard]

See you Friday bright and early with Bacon Sarnie in tow !!
Good News Stevie
Phil

[SUSIT]

See you Friday bright and early with Bacon Sarnie in tow !!
Good News Stevie
Phil

what time are you guys going to arrive? We are staying at the travel lodge at East Midlands Airport how long will it take us to get to Silverstone if we aim to be there for 8ish

Stephen

[Bernard]

Stevie
We could meet at Liecester Forest East Services @ 7:45 as the gates don't open till 8:30 i believe, you will be going back down the M1 !..... maybe you could change it for a location closer to Silverstone ??..... East Mids to Silverstone will be approx 1hr depending on traffic..... its FRIDAY !
Cheers
Phil..... check private message for my Tel No's

[SUSIT]

Stevie
We could meet at Liecester Forest East Services @ 7:45 as the gates don't open till 8:30 i believe, you will be going back down the M1 !..... maybe you could change it for a location closer to Silverstone ??..... East Mids to Silverstone will be approx 1hr depending on traffic..... its FRIDAY !
Cheers
Phil..... check private message for my Tel No's


That sounds like a plan Phil - Going to Donnington on thursday and trying to meet up with the owner of a Red Strati that evening. This is all assuming my new (For that read 12 year old but an improvement on 16 year old ) car does not play up. Having bought the thing I am now reading lots of horror stories on the internet :eek:

Stephen
Ps Will contact you on thursday to confirm

[Bernard]

Ok........ you have my telephone numbers

Cheers for now

Phil

[catswhiskers]

Have a good day at Noble. Best guess TB and Emarald 3D ;) but will wait to see what your up too :D Cheers
Stephen

Well, 1 out of 2. not bad. ;)
Yes it was an Emerald mapping session but not on mine. On my sons 'toy'.
All went OK but, as Craig said, they dont let you in the room for 'health & Safety' reasons. :rolleyes:
All went OK though and certainly a lot more convenient than driving to Norfolk and back. Chesterfield is only about 12 miles for us so it was worth a try.
Quite happy with the end result but must admit, I'd like to have watched. :(

Mick