Driving through France

[dgadee]

After many years of high clearance vehicles (going from my Camel and gradually getting lower to a 4x4 Volvo) this is my lowest ever car...and parking off road can be a no no

Perhaps a fourth?

Just looking at pallets. Cheapest for one m3 is £440. Up to £720. One pallet would not be enough and then I would have to be here to make it accessible, so adding flight costs.

My reasoning about cars is the total cost of home motoring for me has been £40 over 2 years (car club to hire vans). Even hiring for this trip is just what I previously paid for annual insurance. And while commuting was hateful, a long road trip was always fun.

Hiring abroad over the winter is peanuts. Rome in March was €25 for a week.

Bouba, sell the Tesla (I can tell something you can't bring yourself to name embarrasses you). Make the dogs walk.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Two most upsetting things about driving a Tesla....
I have to have a crit air sticker on my windshield
I can’t drive fast when traffic is slowed down due to pollution warning

You can't / don't drive fast anyway

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Don't drive in France anywhere on a day when it is red or black in the area/direction you are travelling in.
Do not try to go anywhere on the 2nd of August. It is black everywhere.

Take the forecasts of hell on this web site seriously:-
Prévisions - Prévisions - Bison Futé

Bugger got to drive from Arras to Calais on the 2nd.

 

[Bouba]

Perhaps a fourth?

Just looking at pallets. Cheapest for one m3 is £440. Up to £720. One pallet would not be enough and then I would have to be here to make it accessible, so adding flight costs.

My reasoning about cars is the total cost of home motoring for me has been £40 over 2 years (car club to hire vans). Even hiring for this trip is just what I previously paid for annual insurance. And while commuting was hateful, a long road trip was always fun.

Hiring abroad over the winter is peanuts. Rome in March was €25 for a week.

Bouba, sell the Tesla (I can tell something you can't bring yourself to name embarrasses you). Make the dogs walk.

On my recent holiday I used Uber for the first time... I was very impressed

 

[dgadee]

On my recent holiday I used Uber for the first time... I was very impressed

Port Saint-Louis has not a single taxi. I need to get Uber sorted or walk. I discovered no taxis when I had to lug 15kg of bag down to Port Napoleon.

 

[Bouba]

Port Saint-Louis has not a single taxi. I need to get Uber sorted or walk. I discovered no taxis when I had to lug 15kg of bag down to Port Napoleon.

I’ve also stayed at Port Saint-Louis in Senegal.....Nice place but had to leave early....the police are so corrupt there

 

[westernman]

Bugger got to drive from Arras to Calais on the 2nd.

You should be ok if you leave before 4am.

 

[Bouba]

You should be ok if you leave before 4am.

That’s poor advice.....Hackett won’t be sober until 8am

 

[Fr J Hackett]

That’s poor advice.....Hackett won’t be sober until 8am

At which point I will be dipping my toast into a runny egg.

 

[ingenious]

And there was me pondering how many days to take bringing my TR6 down to France...
Current plan is to meet several others at the Chunnel ( some classics, some modern) then drive to Le Mans the first day then on to Angoulême. After the race the rest will go back to UK and I will carry on down to my French place
I'm certainly going to break the Norfolk/Dover bit with an overnight stop with friends in Cambridge and trying to persuade the group to go on smaller roads and stop somewhere in Normandy.
From Angoulême a friend is going to come up in a conventional car to buddy me and we'll probably have a stop.
Then I'll probably spend a week in chiropractic care...

 

[dgadee]

And there was me pondering how many days to take bringing my TR6 down to France...
Current plan is to meet several others at the Chunnel ( some classics, some modern) then drive to Le Mans the first day then on to Angoulême. After the race the rest will go back to UK and I will carry on down to my French place
I'm certainly going to break the Norfolk/Dover bit with an overnight stop with friends in Cambridge and trying to persuade the group to go on smaller roads and stop somewhere in Normandy.
From Angoulême a friend is going to come up in a conventional car to buddy me and we'll probably have a stop.
Then I'll probably spend a week in chiropractic care...

How reliable are those old Triumphs?

 

[Bouba]

How reliable are those old Triumphs?

They weren’t reliable when new...

 

[capnsensible]

When you've added up all costs, perhaps consider a flight there and return and FedEx your swag?

 

[dgadee]

They weren’t reliable when new...

Thought not. If I had been young and posh, though, I would have got one. I was young and poor. Ford Popular with 3 forward gears and windscreen wipers off the air intake.

More to the point. Are English motorways busy on a Sunday?

 

[dgadee]

When you've added up all costs, perhaps consider a flight there and return and FedEx your swag?

And where is the adventure in that?

 

[Bouba]

Thought not. If I had been young and posh, though, I would have got one. I was young and poor. Ford Popular with 3 forward gears and windscreen wipers off the air intake.

More to the point. Are English motorways busy on a Sunday?

English motorways are busy everyday.....watch out for the potholes !

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Thought not. If I had been young and posh, though, I would have got one. I was young and poor. Ford Popular with 3 forward gears and windscreen wipers off the air intake.

More to the point. Are English motorways busy on a Sunday?

English motorways are always busy

 

[dgadee]

For shipping pallets internationally with FedEx, your shipment must be:

Stackable

Liftable using a fork-lift

Shrink-wrapped or banded

 

[ingenious]

They weren’t reliable when new...

It's probably more reliable now than when it was built!
It has a modern fuel injection system and all the bulbs have been replaced with LEDs. I'll spend some time when I am home in a week's time going over it, checking for deterioration while it has been in storage and take it for a few runs to see if there are any issues. I have a huge amount of spares for it and will take a fair few with me and hopefully persuade someone with a bigger/modern car to take some more. I have every seal on the car, every electronic/electrical component, brake discs and cylinders, master cylinders, steering rack, injectors, fuel pump, oil pump, water pump, full hose set... And so on.
The bigger things like spare radiator and overdrive unit, springs and shocks are the ones that I won't be able to carry but someone else might. If there is a failure of engine, gearbox or final drive, it will be a recovery truck job south and fix it later.

 

[ingenious]

For shipping pallets internationally with FedEx, your shipment must be:

Stackable

Liftable using a fork-lift

Shrink-wrapped or banded

Use pallet boxes, basically a four sided frame that fits on a pallet