Thread: Harry's a Gooooooone

Originally Posted by Grimace

just drive carefully and have a safe trip mate.

If you do stop off at Amsterdam bring me back some cake

Makes mental note to be working that day......

ok, finally found a computer, not much time though,
have proved toe golf cannot go any faster than 205 on the flat and even down hill thats it
man am i impressed with the little jigger.
left wiener neustadt at midday friday and got past salzburg by 4.30pm and found a cute hotel, then in the morning off to stuttgart, arrived about 1pm and spent the arvo in the mercedes benz museum, then blasted out to an unknown town with an impossible name for the night, left there this morning and went to nuremburg and wandered through their war hitler museum it#s got a fancy german name too, but it told the strory of hitlers rise and the crap he did, he was an unbelievable little bastard. a very sobering tour, so sad. and now i am in chemnitz after another few hours at the wheel
yesterday i passed a police car at 205kph, now theres something i can.t do in aus.
and also had a chap on a quad bike jump into the fast lane in front of me, and i had to slow down for him to go back in he was doing 140kph in the fast lane of the autobahrn, got a photo to prove it

brilliant work harry... sounds like you're having a good time.

can't wait to have a beer with you and hear all the stories

Originally Posted by Outlaw

brilliant work harry... sounds like you're having a good time.

can't wait to have a beer with you and hear all the stories

I'll be there too


Keep well Harry and come back safely

Great trip so far Harry - really enjoy the up the updates.

Originally Posted by harry

and also had a chap on a quad bike jump into the fast lane in front of me, and i had to slow down for him to go back in he was doing 140kph in the fast lane of the autobahrn, got a photo to prove it

Good coz you know what they say...

It didn;t happen without pics !

all good things come to an end,
didn't have internet since my last post, so quite a bit has happened since then.
i am now home.
but to continue the trip report,
left chemnitz and aimed for a little town - lichtenstein,
found it ok, same story, blast along the autobahn in the 180 to 200 kph zone,
had a police car come up behind me with every light flashing, and i was sitting on 180 to 190, so i moved over, he went past as if i was standing still, and had a big merc tailing him, so i just hopped bact into the fast lane and continued.
strangly, tho of the very few cars that passed me were 4wd's.
like it takes a little mental adjustment to realise that a big black car with headlights blazing behind you is a 4wd audi, and also a couple of cayenne's got the better of me.
anyway i was a bit busy with the course for a few days and wouldn't have had time to report.
and just down the street from the hotel was the sachenring, spell check? a race track which you could put your own car on, well we tried to put on a race of our own, three hire cars, but it wouldn't have been fair, golf, a class deisel and a vauxhall thing, they were too busy for us, with porsche hot laps, open wheeler runs behind a pace car and a track full of motorbikes.
anyway i have driven the sachenshring 4wd track in a rentagolf!
the course was done and off i went to berlin, i know understand why they can have such huge crashes on the autobahns - try maintaining the highway pace in pouring rain which comes off the cars in front's tyres as a thick wet fog, and that car is in front of you about four hundred yards and you can only just make out his tail lights, whilst in very clear vision is a set of headlights behind you that seem to be attached to tha rear windscreen, all this at 140 kph, and if you dare to move to the next lane there will appear a car doing about 40 k slower than you.
standard practice is to hit the hazard lights when you have to slow suddenly, as the chap behind may be cruising above the 200 mark, which will ruin your day if you have sudedenly braked to 150.
any way the rain cleared and i pedalled the golf for three hours at 180 plus, damm good fun.
got to berlin, lost again and found a hotel, gave back my golf to its rightful owners and went to bed.
then the horror trip home in the jet's
berlin london singapore sydney brisbane and the air thain [airtrain/bus/train] home
i have some pics, but will have to process them first.
great to be home.

Originally Posted by harry

i know understand why they can have such huge crashes on the autobahns - try maintaining the highway pace in pouring rain which comes off the cars in front's tyres as a thick wet fog, and that car is in front of you about four hundred yards and you can only just make out his tail lights, whilst in very clear vision is a set of headlights behind you that seem to be attached to tha rear windscreen, all this at 140 kph, and if you dare to move to the next lane there will appear a car doing about 40 k slower than you.

Try it when it's snow instead of rain, that's even more fun.

Went for a trip with a German friend of mine from Switzerland to Hamburg in the middle of the night in the middle of winter, we made it in less than 8 hours and we were flying - I think his average speed was around 180kph.

I just closed my eyes and prayed we'd get there in 1 piece....