Going for 200 Laps on the Nurburgring, Shipping my 914-6 to Europe for my 4th European Tour. |
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Going for 200 Laps on the Nurburgring, Shipping my 914-6 to Europe for my 4th European Tour. |
DonTraver |
Jan 13 2020, 04:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 829 Joined: 5-August 04 Member No.: 2,461 |
Some of you might remember when I shipped my RS America to Europe 3 times (had to ship back to CA for smog) While there I ran 190 Laps on the Ring with 1 Off and 1 360 spin. Best was 12 laps in 1 stint. Had 1 off track altercation with a bully, he lost.
I miss the Ring and the Autobahn. So I've decided to ship my 914-6 and get those last 10 laps in, woo hoo. Maybe a couple more, They do sell 25 lap cards. Used to be 499 euros. Last time I met up with 1 of the world members at the Ring that was stationed there with his 914. Are there any members that might want to meet up at the Ring? Things are starting to fall into place for this to happen again. Price of shipping has gone down to around $2200 to Felixstowe, UK. Set up Insurance this morning. Hotel reservations at the Elizabeth Orwell, it's like stepping back in to the 1800's. The 6 is ready, fresh engine, side shift tranny, clutch, axles, cables, brakes, etc. Just a few minor gripes to fix before shipping. This is from last time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzPcRyTkZM...ndex=2&t=2s Maybe contact Discover Germany, would be cool to have the 6 on the Ring like the RSA. and https://www.flickr.com/photos/2010-2011_european_tour/sets Plan is ship 6 in April, fly over in May, pick up and I'm gone. Attached image(s) |
dax1969 |
Jan 15 2020, 10:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 360 Joined: 10-March 14 From: belgium Member No.: 17,103 Region Association: None |
QUOTE With regard to roaming charges there is still the border tax/permit thing if that's what you mean - we had to pay 40euro(cf) or so to cross into Switzerland. However our IDs were never checked at all crossing between 4 countries. He is talking about dataroaming on the cellphone...you are talking about the "vignet"... sort of roadtax to enter the country and use their "autobahn". No need if you take the backroads. In France, Spain and Italy you pay your highway tax at tollbooths bye |
campbellcj |
Jan 15 2020, 06:38 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,539 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California |
QUOTE With regard to roaming charges there is still the border tax/permit thing if that's what you mean - we had to pay 40euro(cf) or so to cross into Switzerland. However our IDs were never checked at all crossing between 4 countries. He is talking about dataroaming on the cellphone...you are talking about the "vignet"... sort of roadtax to enter the country and use their "autobahn". No need if you take the backroads. In France, Spain and Italy you pay your highway tax at tollbooths bye Yes indeed - we also hit quite a few autobahn tolls but avoided most border crossing stops via back roads. Our cell service is AT&T (US) with international service added to avoid roaming fees. Our trip was so short we didn't look into EU based cell service but having unlimited data was awesome in terms of using Waze and Google Translate. |
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