Hi All,
I wanted to share these pictures with you. Friends of ours got married this summer and they got married in Italy. We decided to make the 2500km (1600mls) trip with my recently finnished Gardner Douglas T70. T
This basicly meant 2 things:
1 roughly 1600km of German Autobahn to cover! :laugh:
2: being able to do the return trip via the italian and austrian alps, and drive the Plocken-Pass from Italy to Austria and as the grand finale drive 2556m altitude "Gross Glockner Hoch Alpen Strasse" :helmet:
So we hit 267km (169mls) an hour on the Autobahn legaly!
At which Point my girlfriend Vivian gave up an made the :thumbsdown: sign. that was however at 5800RPM (the LS1 will run 6250Rpm). must go back one day.
After a beautifull wedding weekend, we did the return trip over the mountains.
I must say this was my best driving experience up till now ever.
450hp+ in a 920KG car is brilliant on those roads.
The handling of the Gardner Douglas is the best I've ever had by all means. The road-holding is incredible in the tight hairpin corners, you can throw the car into corners at speeds I would't dare in anything else.
Something is completely right about this chassis!
Also driving it for hours on end at 180km (110mls) an hour was very easy not exhausting at all. (it has been set up for road use for this trip)
All in all if you ever have the chance of driving this road DO IT!
Stelvio Pass has been covered in snow almost all summer 2013, so that one we'll keep for next year..... anyone to come along?
I wanted to share these pictures with you. Friends of ours got married this summer and they got married in Italy. We decided to make the 2500km (1600mls) trip with my recently finnished Gardner Douglas T70. T
This basicly meant 2 things:
1 roughly 1600km of German Autobahn to cover! :laugh:
2: being able to do the return trip via the italian and austrian alps, and drive the Plocken-Pass from Italy to Austria and as the grand finale drive 2556m altitude "Gross Glockner Hoch Alpen Strasse" :helmet:
So we hit 267km (169mls) an hour on the Autobahn legaly!
At which Point my girlfriend Vivian gave up an made the :thumbsdown: sign. that was however at 5800RPM (the LS1 will run 6250Rpm). must go back one day.
After a beautifull wedding weekend, we did the return trip over the mountains.
I must say this was my best driving experience up till now ever.
450hp+ in a 920KG car is brilliant on those roads.
The handling of the Gardner Douglas is the best I've ever had by all means. The road-holding is incredible in the tight hairpin corners, you can throw the car into corners at speeds I would't dare in anything else.
Something is completely right about this chassis!
Also driving it for hours on end at 180km (110mls) an hour was very easy not exhausting at all. (it has been set up for road use for this trip)
All in all if you ever have the chance of driving this road DO IT!
Stelvio Pass has been covered in snow almost all summer 2013, so that one we'll keep for next year..... anyone to come along?