FRENCH FROLIC 10 - 21/8 to 28/8

[Scotty C]

Awesome.... well done Alan!

Anymore for anymore?!?!

Mike .... why am I not seeing your name up there yet?!?

Team Shed ftw!!

Unfortunately I will be in Florida when this is on

FAIL

[mckeann]

Mike, how much to rent the 211 for 2 weeks???? call it a 6K mile limit? I'll put tyres and pads on it??

[Andy G]

Mike, how much to rent the 211 for 2 weeks???? call it a 6K mile limit? I'll put tyres and pads on it??

£42k?

[campbell]

I'm in too. Don't know what car - won't be the banana anyway - uses too much fuel Probably Egor, though strange hankerings to take a caterham ... not that I've ever driven one

Cheers,
Robin

That will surely be worse than a 340...?! Unless you have a trailer too...but then that will be very boring!

[campbell]

Intend on whipping up some hideous 7esk kit car to do the trip in, keep your eye out for a build thread.

Good on you mate!

[campbell]

This is the first time this has fallen outwith Eilidh's birthday, which gives me a theoretical shot at it, but as I said earlier in the thread, even in a shared car, it's the best part of a family holiday €€€ wise so I think other than a windfall, it's a pipe dream!

In any case I may be without a Lotus by then.

We'll see. Enjoying the excitement on this thread, at least!

[Andy A]

That's me onboard also 3 years in a row now
Just need to buy a car now,
Will be my seventh lotus in 7 years ,sure this has to be some kinda record
Don't think even Garath can beat that

Andy

[ed]

Nice one guys! Cant wait!

I need to get a car also. Decisions decisions.......

[Andy G]

Nice one guys! Cant wait!

I need to get a car also. Decisions decisions.......

340R ..................

[Stewart]

looking for some advice from the regular FF ers.

How much spending money will I need, my initial thoughts are £3000. Setting up a standing order to make it a bit easier.

Any thoughts

Alan

I am sure when I have looked at this in the past I have worked it out at about £2k all in. I can't remember if that included the cost of tyres and pads but was certainly FF cost, tunnel, fuel, tolls, beer (light weight ) grub and speeding fines . I am sure I worked that out after FF7 when I flew solo and fuel was as least as expensive then as it is now.

I never seem to spend very much when I am there other than fuel. Grub in the evening isn't too bad and it is often the cheapest evens that are the best fun - pizzas from the van in Orange anyone . I would think £3k will cover the pair of you quite comfortably.

There are savings to be made on cheaper tyres (possibly), Paine type pikey ferry crossings, taking the non-toll scenic routes and not being first to the bar

Definitely the not the cheapest holiday that you will ever have but possibly one of, if not the best you will ever have.

[corbie]

Add another SE on to the list, thats me booked up now.

Well looking forward to it.

[Rag_It]

Add another SE on to the list, thats me booked up now.

Well looking forward to it.

Nice one mate!

[robin]

It's all down to gearing - any road car must be able to do 80mph at 4,000RPM absolute maximum for me to consider it reasonable to drive it on the motorway; 500RPM either way makes a massive difference; so a 7 with some old 5 speed box in it might well cruise at low RPM in top gear. If it's >4000 RPM at 80mph then it'll need to be trailered (is that a word?), in which case it's a different kind of holiday, but I wouldn't rule it out just yet.

Cheers,
Robin

[pete039]

one more SE to join the list. Been a long time since the last one(2006) ,looking forward to it

[Stewart]

Only 4 places left for anybody still trying to make up their mind