Ultimate Street Bays European MEGA Tour 2009

USB, had 4 bays out at EBI3 earlier in the year:



And now for the second and LONGEST leg,

Wish us Luck

Chris aka Maddog and I (Alex aka Jesus) will be embarking on a trip of a lifetime tomorrow,

We are heading out to Norway to http://WWW.SCCEVENT.COM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The idea for the trip started after Jan (our friendly Norwegian) qualified for the USB last year.

This is sort of our route:

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So Keep your fingers crossed for us both, It's a lot of miles to be taking a VW to race it and then plan on driving it home

We should be back in the UK on the 19th hopefully armed with lots of great Photo's and Video's

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Thanks for reading

Maddog


and Jesus

Time is going tooooooo slow! Stuck here at work and need to get on with the bus....ohh and pack :lol:

The weather forecast is dry for the next few days which is a relief!! Approx 2,000 miles give or take a few hundred (round trip), fitting in visits to BBT and CSP too Fuel? Lets not go there haha but we will let you know the figures once we know although we have a rough idea.

Camp where we park, with plenty of 'Lynx' for me morning showers :lol:

Can't wait to get started now and looking forward to meeting the Norwegians too........i've heard they like to party!!

Wow, that is one hell of a trip - good luck and enjoy. I look forward to seeing the pics!

Have a safe trip m8's. Looking forward to get together with you in Norway.
Please take lot of pics during the the long way up here,,and when you get here,give me or x a call.
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Cheers guys and Jan cheers for the numbers

Right i must get on and fix the bus and then try to pack everything in it :lol:

Hope your out giving it a good run now Chris,

p.s. with the Numbers add +47 before them

Cheers Adam, and see you middle of next week Jan

good luck, sounds awesome 8)

cool road trip................ looking forward to the pics and vids

Dont forget the baby wipes (instant shower)

Oh yes, baby ass wipes are a man's best friend. Or actually - your passenger's best friend, you never smell as bad as the dude next to you

To save some money, make sure you fill petrol before you leave Germany at the latest, and buy alcohol and cigarettes there too - or on the duty free shop on the ferry to Norway. It is more expensive in Denmark and twice/three times as expensive in Norway.

If you have any technical problems, don't hesitate to call me. Not that I can do much hundreds of miles away, but if you have problems in Denmark and need a spare part or some help, I can contact Danish clubs/their forums and perhaps get them to assist you. My experience is though - if the car works the first 100-200 miles, it is probably going the rest of the journey with no problem *knock on wood*.

Last year SCC was the best VW event I have ever been to, this year looks like it is going to be even better. It is so cool to have you guys visiting and it looks like we might have about a dozen buses racing. The fact that there will be about a dozen bugs capable of doing 9 second runs and that we most likely will see a 8 second run this year, is just an added bonus

Have a safe trip guys, looking forward to seeing you both in Norway!

Sounds sweet, enjoy

Thanks for all your comments

Van's all Packed and clean, even rain X'd the front screen, CB is all hooked up, I'm about as prepared as i ever am,

Just wish the hours would pass a bit quicker now :mrgreen:

SO EXCITED, In the uk it was awesome to see one 9 sec Bug and to see Wheeler Dealer hit that twelve in their barndoor, But SCC is in a league of it's own, THAT is why it's worth going such a long way for an event

Arrived in Norway, All did the run great, we have the most awesome hosts!

Enjoy it! :mrgreen:

Updates to come,

I'm home already, Maddog and his missus are enjoying some other bits and bobs before heading for a ferry later.

I ran a PB of 16.7 @ 128kmt

I'm very happy, my lil 1776cc did the over 2200mile journey without missing a beat, and got a good spanking in Norway on the world's stickiest track

This is as much my own log and reminder for myself as it is a thread for everyone to read

I'm sure Chris and Kim will be on at some stage too and can correct/amend my facts

So on Sat 8th of August

I got my van packed up, Collected Lee from East Croydon and headed out to Clackett Lane services on the M25 where we would catch up with Chris and Kim.

On arrival at Clackett Lane my first bit of maintenance appeared, The Rear right Drum was just catching a bit too much and was getting a tad warm, so after grabbing a bite to eat, Lee and I got this backed off a bit and we were good to go. Once Chris had managed to fight his way through the joy that is the M3 and M25 we got on our way down to Dover.







We arrived that evening @ Dunkerque, after a lil matter of me almost taking us the wrong way round the first roundabout, DOH! We headed off into europe and plowed through as many miles as we could till it seemed sensible to stop, This got us to near Eindhoven in Holland at a motorway services.

Sun 9th August

We awoke in a services in Holland with a Coach load of German school girls parked up next to us, They proceeded to enjoy staring at me baby wipe showering, brushing my teeth etc, it was like a Hobo version of the diet coke add's :lol:

We had an easy day of driving as we planned to stay outside CSP in Germany that night.

so after a few fuel stops





We arrived to what we thought was a deserted CSP being a sunday night and all.





Now when we went exploring we found it was not empty at all,



The T34 Racecar was being worked on round the back,

Not only did we get a guided tour of the place, we got it while they were busy working on the car, which we really didn't expect. What lovely people. They were also perfectly happy for us to stay out the front.

After our tour etc, we thought it best to get out of the way and let them continue, There is a nice restaurant just up the road from CSP which we then descended upon.

After dinner, We suffered our first major bit of rain, but this wasn't an issue as Frank Hoffman turned up in his Coach so we invaded the German and sat in the dry in his coach having a beer and a chat.

Monday the 10th

After a supermarket trip and a fuel fill, we left Frank and plowed on up through Germany and Denmark,

By this stage we were almost a whole day ahead of ourselves!





After some more fuel stops and services we were well into Denmark, and where thinking about finding a nice place to camp up for the night. By pure chance, when we got off the motorway to explore a little we saw signs of a Auto Museum. When we pulled into the car park, this strange bloke with a tache, quickly shut the door locked it and then went into his house which was attached :?

This place was in the middle of nowhere he looked like he hadn't had a visitor in months and when he does was too weird to let us in and look about :?









and over the fence in the bushes we spied





So we got back on the road, and headed for a coastal bit of the island before our major bridge crossing.

We headed for Kinterminde, but found a lovely spot to park up on route







Thinking we should find somewhere to park for the night and some food we continued on a little, till we found Kinterminde town centre, We never quite got that far as Chris's Throttle linkage under the peddle had a weak weld that snapped. Once again God was looking down on us, he broke down on a bridge Lee pushed him right at the set of lights and then right straight into a car park that we now called home.









We deffo's had someone watching over us this whole trip, not only had we a convenient place to park the vans, we were in a local dock and right by the centre of town, after walking for about 3 mins i heard someone walk past the other way speaking in english, After a quick ask and a trip to the marine biology centre they were working from we had been told where the local blacksmith was. We had a lovely wander around town (to make sure we had found the blacksmith) and then went and had a lovely meal followed by an even LOVELIER Ice Cream from the local palour which seemed HEAVING busy.

Tuesday the 11th

We got straight round the Blacksmith's and asked him to weld Chris's linkage back together, when we asked if he spoke english he said maybe, and his hands where the shakiest things you have ever seen, this was a tad worrying but he told us to come back in a just over an hour so we left him be and went off.

Finally we got it back from the blacksmith and got it bolted back on the van by about 11am.



At this point we still had time in hand so we took some arty shots of the vans in the dock and also visited a porpoise and seal centre.

























On the way out of town we went and said thanks to the blacksmith,



Chris has a pic on his camera of him with the bloke!

Then it was onto the bridge.















Now i'd made it 1000miles without any burnouts, but now i started to get bored, the bridge toll que and the centre of Coppenhagen got abused slightly!

It was then the final dash into Coppenhagen for our overnight ferry to Oslo,

we weren't the only classics on this ferry







Coppenhagen is just an ODD city with ferries seemingly sat between housing blocks,



Now Lee and I after much careful investigation are certain we were on the same boat that James May and Richard Hammond were on when the raced Clarkson in the SLR Maclaren

Wednesday the 12th

This saw our Arrival In Oslo, Norway.





Our own private smoking deck from the night before.





Now our Hosts took over,

Jan Holm qualified for the USB last year and was the one who had asked Chris and I to come over. Jan and Espen met us literally at the mouth of the port, which saved us getting lost in Oslo, we drove straight through the city centre with another burnout or 2 to Jan's home, which became our own very QUICKLY. Frank who was already at the track in the coach, rolled out the race car and drove into Oslo to meet us. After jan had served us Bacon and Egg's (what a legend jan is) we went on a lil boat trip round Oslo Fjord in Jan's Boat.







After some Fuel and Battery power we were soon on our way,











We even got to see the ferry we had rolled in on from VERY CLOSE UP







As we discovered amongst Jan's neighbours and friends his home is always open,

Ernst popped over with his Awesome Euro 68 Deluxe, (I LOVE THIS VAN)









Jan topped the evening off with some lovely dinner, He Hunts Moose, so we had a Moose stroganoff which was DAMN Tasty, hence all the empty bowls Frank and I even managed to beat Espen in for seconds :mrgreen: