In no particular order:

1985 Mini - the least reliable car in Britain
1991 Metro GTI - blinding. Used to get a cuppa at the garage when it received its monthly litre of oil
1995 Mini Cooper - exhaust fell off, indicators packed in. Was BRG though.
2000 Saxo VTR - crap. Friday car.
1996 Escort Cabrio (girlfriends at the time - not mine honest)
1998 Lotus Elise - (now covered 55,000 in it and have the stonechips, clam cracks, rattles, squeaks etc to prove it)
1991 Lotus Elan - bought in 2001 with 12,000 on the clock. Time warped gem which I sold out of guilt because I was spoiling.
2000 Lotus 340R - blew head gasket on way to my wedding
1983 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus - still got in pieces accross a few different locations.
2000 Impreza P1 brilliant alrounder. 4 up for camping to Swanage
1986 Fiesta XR2 - in diamond white. Loved it.
2002 Evo 7 FQ300 - lot of lag, noise etc. Good fun.
1998 Porsche 996 C2 - great cruiser but bought the first one I saw which was a mistake as it was a bit lacking in spec.
2003 Impreza STI PPP - great workhorse, image a shame.
2004 Porsche 997 Carrera S - love it, a huge step forward and the pccb are amazing.
1999 Smart - awful. Blew the engine day 1 and never returned.
1999 Alfa Romeo 156 - fab interior. steady.

Best laugh was the wife and me - Lands End to John O Groats in the Elise. We did the route overnight, 3 stops for fuel 835 miles, 11 hours 37 minutes. A brilliant experience, sunset by the sea at Lands End and sunrise somewhere around Wick. Felt a bit numb afterwards as Elise seats aren't renound for padding!

And I thought I had issues.............

work permitting I'm going to try and get along to this too.

Yep, I saw some of this last night. Highlight had to be Steve McQueens black 911 as seen at the start of the Le Mans - I think they said it had 47,000 miles on the clock from new. Its now owned by Chad McQueen.

Cheers everyone, I'm going to like it here

I work in Reading; I'll definitely be up for a few jars next time you're out.

Booked Le Mans for 2006 last week - yippee!

Operation thirst:

Left home thursday morning, 6am. Onto the ferry at Portsmouth where the woman on the next table promptly threw up everywhere whilst we were still in the harbour. Nice.
Cherbourg to Le Mans in bright sunshine.
Karting Nord virtually full but found a spot between the road and the Danish. Drank away the rest of Thursday and all of Friday. Apologies to Johnny Herbert who got attacked by a water pistol by one of our adopted team mates (long accident ridden story)
Drank with the Danes, watched in surprise / horror as they danced to that song "who the **** is Alice"
Drank with anyone else interested, sunburnt my feet in flip flops.
Watched the racing
Fireworks and more booze
Home, Monday morning

Ready for next year.

 

Cheers Steve

I'll be at the 1000k's too, not sure whether to camp or not. Anyone any experiences?
I'll keep an eye open for the London session, sounds like a good trip out.

Rob

Afternoon all

Back from my second Le Mans and thought I'd find somewhere to get my Le Mans fix until next year.

My names Rob, I'm 29 and live in Berkshire.

This year I stayed at Karting Nord; had a really blinding few days although by the time I'd arrived on Thursday afternoon it was pretty much full and I ended up perched near by the road. I brought back sunburnt feet, a cracking hangover and loads of top memories (plus a flaying lizard cap). Roll on next year.....