Re: [doc] New Member - car pics uploaded

["Nigel" <nigelmills@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

We concluded pretty early on that you either do it to enjoy it, or 
to win. Not both. We had a good time, swapped over drivers several 
times and had a good play with other cars en route. In the end we 
came 26th out of the 90+ cars. The guys who won (in a Porsche) came 
in 2.25 hours ahead of us on what was for us about a 7 hour run from 
Paris to Monaco (ie they SHIFTED it). Apparently they were scoping 
out the route the week before. We also had a not so delightful 45 
minute wait with the Police at Lyon :-(, and missed the final turn 
to Monaco causing a 15 minute detour. Our fault, we had the windows 
down and were enjoying the noise of the tunels so much we didn;t 
hear the Sat Nav saying LEFT, LEFT you idiots :-)

We have some very shaky video of a lovely straight stretch in Italy 
where we had 200mph on the speedo (twice). Real spine tingling 
stuff !

On the way back I got radar'd in France, spent an hour or so at the 
Police station, and got banned (from driving in France) for 15 days. 
As it happens we were 50 miles away from Calais and so my co driver 
just finished off the leg. Once back in the UK I drove again.

I'm still editing down my 8+ hours of combined footage into a DVD, 
it may be a while but I'll happily circulate a copy if you're 
interested when done.

For any law enforcement agencies reading this. I'm lying :-)

As for the other Yellow Diablo, Yes as `Lord` was featured quite a 
lot (with pre-race footage etc). I think they didn't show much of my 
car in action so as not to confuse the viewers, shame, although at 
least I seem to have avoided looking a total pratt, which was my 
worst fear having asked all my friends to watch it.....

Regards, (still smiliing while I write it).

Nigel

--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James Macpherson" 
<james.macpherson@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Nigel
> 
> I saw you on the Cannonball 8000 last night.  You managed to get in
> quite a lot of the shots but they did focus more on the 
other "Yellow
> Car" more than yours!!
> 
> I know it wasn't a race as they kept saying, but what position did 
you
> come and who was first?  Looks like a excellent laugh though, well 
worth
> doing!
> 
> James
> doc 129
> vin 2250
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel [mailto:nigelmills@xxxx]
> Sent: 15 December 2004 12:36
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [doc] New Member - car pics uploaded
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris, 
> 
> On the auction limit, I'd have gone to about 23/24 + 15% tax, so 
> close to the £28k. Anyone know who was bidding against me at the 
> finale ?
> 
> Nigel
> 
> --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris Parnham" 
<chrisparnham1@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Nigel, am I right in thinking you had your "yellow car" at Super 
> Car
> > Sunday?  If so, was that where you caught the DeLorean bug?
> >  
> > You are one of a small group of members who have very nice LHD 
and 
> RHD
> > cars.  
> >  
> > I'd forget the Don Lander thing, I have solid info that 
contradicts
> > that, but on the other hand, AXI 1697, as it was (and should 
> really be)
> > known,  was one of 3 RHD's converted in Northern Ireland by the 
> factory
> > senior management. More details will be in mine and Andy's book,
> > ...eventually! 
> >  
> >  Incidentally, what would you have gone to at the auction, if 
> pushed?
> > ......... My guess is 30K, which is my valuation.  
> >  
> > Best regards
> > Chris Parnham
> > DOC 2
> > RHD  vin 5638    AXI 1698
> > BTTF vin 20049   BAK 5T  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nigel [mailto:nigelmills@xxxx] 
> > Sent: 14 December 2004 22:30
> > To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [doc] New Member - car pics uploaded
> >  
> > 
> > For anyone even vaguely interested I've uploaded some pics of:
> > 
> > `Olly` LHD VIN 3720, recent 170 mile concourse car at Pigeon 
forge
> > `Stan` RHD VIN 5565, Ex Don Lander - Patrick collection 7600 mile
> > Buster - Something a tad faster.
> > 
> > Sorry, someone told me to do it !
> > 
> > Nigel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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