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Will be looking out for your write ups. I'm off on a solo in August. Hull to Rotterdam - Dusseldorf - Innsbruck (on Train) -Lake Como - Little St Bernards Pass (The Italian Job Intro) - Monaco - Massa (not set in stone yet)- Florence - Lake Garda- Bolzano - Innsbruck - Dusseldorf (train again) - Rotterdam Hull and home . Hope we have as much fun as you all did. Hop to put some video up and a day to day blog. A few mountain passes and some nice scenic route. will post updates if possible. Have a great trip.

Cheers, Dave. Hope you didn't get wet on the way home - I had the sun all the way, and it's lovely here in Glasgow. So jealous of your swept wings, looked cool as I followed you. Can't wait to fit mine this winter. Popped back up the Crawfordjohn road to take a pic looking back up the Mennock Pass to where those photos were taken...

Good run to south Wales today

Cracking run down the South Wales coast today

Having visited Le Mans on two excelent road trips in 2017 & 2018, it feels rather strange being at home this year. Especially seeing posts on here and social media of others doing Le Mans 2019. On Tues 25th June, I depart from home with @Greenstreak-Andy D @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary & @westyjord87 joining me in the Peak District. We're crossing from Hull to Zeebrugge, driving to Dusseldorf and then taking the night train to Innsbruch. We've then got 3 days of Alp pass blatting planned, folowed by a drive home via the Porsche Museum in Stuggart and the Ring. We'll try to update as we travel, though can't guarantee the tale to be told as well as those on the recent Switzerland trip! Other than Dave's car still completing winter upgrades and Jordan's got no front discs, we're ready!

Thanks to Brad for a great run - we managed to dodge most of the rain. Nice little tea room in Sanquhar came at the right time to shelter from the showers, followed by a final run up the Crawick pass to Leadhills. Dave.

I am 6’2 and have changed my seats from the Westfield Sports Seats to the Intatrim Seats. No problem with leg room. I also went for the heated version as I drive my toy all year

Excelent, we'll try to leave the place tidy for you

I thought they were Oddysey II seats, but looking at other pictures, they must have been Endeavour instead. I bought them in 2014, so unlikely still to be a current model.

Looks like a great route and even better a lot of roads I haven’t driven before. Really looking forward to next weekend.

Still think yours is too high as well, Andy. In the picture, you can see that your left-hand shoulder adjuster is only a few mm away from the lap adjuster. Not picking holes, just keeping you safe.😉 Every time you (generic) get in the car, the shoulder harnesses should be really slack, and do the lap belt first - low and tight. A good habit is, when getting out each time, slacken off the shoulders before opening the buckle. otherwise what tends to happen is each time you get in, you give the shoulder straps a tweek and it raises the lap belt a little more each time. Also, for those with inertia belts, I removed the wire stalk buckles from my car because the springy-ness (or stiffness?) of them held the lap part of the webbing away from my body, leaving a gap that the reel must take up the slack before it becomes effective. I replaced the stalks with these... If there is one thing I have a few clues about it's harnesses, as I was an aircraft safety systems tech in the airforce - part of that was servicing, and fitting to the wearer, parachute and ejection seat harnesses, where the user has to be comfortable but at the same safe to endure long periods and high g's. Incidentally, there have been several motor racing accidents where the driver has experienced more than 100-g in a crash and survived - being securely held in the seat has an awful lot to do with that.

That's exactly the idea I've followed. Wasn't the only factor, but weithing the hassle of fitting properly an adjustable restraint of any kind, and the inertia belt that will be in close to optimum tension/position all the time, I've chosen inertia. It's less effective in the case of rolls for the passenger, though. It depends on the accident...

Entry passes arrived this morning.

Saturday run breakfast at the “ real food cafe” 7.30 am - 9pm in Tyndrum Crianlarich, Arrochar, Susy’s tearoom, Tighnabruich, PA21 2DX and petrol calmac ferry terminal, PortAvadie, PA21 2DA Tarbert, Lochgilphead (petrol if needed) Kilmartin, Erredine, Dalmally, Tyndrum this should give us a about 160 miles plus the ferry and about a 6 hour day with stops so what time for breakfast???

Im not posting that video.

Phew, thought that was going to be a video of me...

On our travels we went through many, many tunnels and avalanche galleries. They where really interesting and its amazing how they have been made in the places some of them are located. The longest we went through was 13km long. Some even had other tunnel sections coming into them inside the tunnels. At one point Jude was to close to me and messages flashed up telling her to back off. Anyway, if tunnels are your thing, then here are a few of the ones we went through.

I use a high lift jack four high tech wooden blocks to sit the wheels on If I’m doing anything that doesn’t involve removing the wheels.

Ben Welcome. You will definitely find some extra inches especially if you can get in now. I'm 6'2" and my seat is a bit too far back now but I can cope. I have some pads to stick on to push me forward a bit. I don't know the make of the ones I brought second hand from eBay but may upgrade to JK now I know it works. HTH.

You may struggle for the perfect fit but you should get somewhere close with some shell seats. Mines got jk’s bolted straight to the floor which your welcome to try but I’m in Worcestershire.I’ll try & make the meet in the 20th, if all goes well the day before with my mapping session. The other thing, have you got lowered floors?

I have just spoken to the Campsite, if people can put "Westfield" in the notes section when booking through the website, then they will put us all in the same area of the park. Just a word of warning, they don't like people just turning up with out booking before hand