antoni
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had a bit of a long weekend
saturday involved cleaning the car nice and early then setting of to telford to meet LukeD which is a nice hour and half drive across the most boring motorways EVER!
saturday night was criuse night with the midlands cruises folk which wasn't that good really seeing as though it was another hours drive from flipping telford. this inlcuded being left at the meeting point and not being told the time had been changed 
only a few noteable cars there, my camera doesnt really like night time photo's 
so that was that and we finaly got back on to familiar territory at about half 11
sunday :
up at goodness konws what hour so luke can polish his metal (OCD kinda style) in perperation for mfn
finaly get everything cleaned polished up then the good ole familiar sight
LOW LOW LOW !
god i love having a 1.0 runs on AIR !
heres when the fun started, post code in satnav and all is going well then we come off the motorway a bit early ?? ended up in the middle of nottingham town centre which has some of the WORST roads ever including a speed bumps in the middle of a main road (well done to nottingham council:thumbs we held up sooo much traffic it was beyond kool i think
eventualy got to the ikea near mfn where i happened to loose my phone 
finaly arrived at mfn after a bit of too and fro'ing on the roads seeing as though no-one knew where the hell they were going
alos managed to leave my mark whilst there aswell
note the big gouge roughly in the middle going diagonaly ? my sump made that 
made my way home, went through all the hills and stuff, hade a few scary moments, mainly just potholes jumping out of no were
500 miles - nearly a tank of fuel - 13hours sleep - a multi pack of buscuits - and some apple juice 
[paul j/]
[Edited on 21-07-2008 by kangaroojack]
[Edited on 21-07-2008 by kangaroojack]
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willay
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nice 
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LukeD
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Ace
Dammm Satvav taking us to the center of nottingham city. 5miles out of the actual destination of where the postcode was suppose to take us.  very stressed times.
[Edited on 21-07-2008 by LukeD]
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DaveB
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Cool. I was at MFN later on in the day, then up to err, somewhere else where I nearly got busted my MR Plod for doing silly things 
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fazza
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sweet.
yours and lukes cars looking sweet there!!
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jimmy 2.1
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Are you sure it was apple juice and not piss!
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antoni
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sshhhh jimmy, its my new diet ... 
still got some left aswell !
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Kurt
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some nice cars there.. i know what you mean about nottingham centre!i was there the other week, its like all one way with specs everywhere, nightmare!
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antoni
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did you through all the shopes? where that speed bump is in the middle of the road at the crossing ? we made a massive que of people there
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Kurt
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yeah, was driving round the centre lost trying to park
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antoni
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aayee roads are mental around there, hardly any signposts, just 1 way streets and rounsabout everywere
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Kurt
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i had the tom tom on the go, totally useless! sent me the wrong way down a one way street
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antoni
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i wish i had a tom tom mine is spome cheapo crap thing
no trust in it anymore
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LukeD
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Pics i just got sent. 3 generations of corsas.
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jimmy 2.1
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quote:
Originally posted by kangaroojack
i wish i had a tom tom mine is spome cheapo crap thing
no trust in it anymore
I don't have one. i just borrow my sisters sat nav, and if i can't have that i freestyle it!
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antoni
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ime thinking of only driving at night from now on, using the stars as my navigation
proper old skool/retro style
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antnee
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The speed bump in nottingham at the junction? If so it used to be a rounabout with subways and a shop in the middle until they decided subways were too unsafe so filled it in and a but to much too me thinks
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mad_mike252
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i was thar
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antoni
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yyeaaaaah thats the one on the junction !
and yes mike we saw you tooo, your cars smoother than mine though
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richc
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Which way do you come? Are you best not going down the m6 to junction 14 i think...stoke....then down the a50 to derby, through derby, to ilkeston (bra brap) MFN
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antoni
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tbh i dont have a clue what the best way is for me to get there
first time i went it was down the a6 which i will never do again, my sump just wont take anymore abuse
and this time comming home it was m1 then onto woodhead pass through all the hills and shit
mancnester to mfn ? what we rekon the best way ?
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Mobby
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looks good, i need to do a few things like this
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Kurt
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quote:
Originally posted by richc
Which way do you come? Are you best not going down the m6 to junction 14 i think...stoke....then down the a50 to derby, through derby, to ilkeston (bra brap) MFN
nope from manc its probs easier to get over to the m1 and straight down..
i went down from Hyde when i went last week.. went across the peak district and down the m1.. but as i set off to come back my sat nav died (thank you vauXhall for your povo models) and had to sort of go across to derby/rugby and up the a50 through uttoxeter, up to stoke and back up through my neck of the woods.. took forever!!
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