Caught the Hull-Rotterdam Ferry as usual. Some classic Beetles setting out on their European tour. On board entertainment - "Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey" "Got to pick a pocket or two" - Well, you get the idea! We drove down via Dusseldorf and collected Stefan at the airport, he'd recently relocated further east in his native Sweden, so his road mileage to Nurburg had increased to almost 1000 miles. Thursday evening TF. Immaculate Spanish registered Opel (Ourense - which is a long way from Nurburg!).
VLN weekend (or is it called NLS now?) Lovely Audi V8 Bentley Flying Spur A bit of tyre cleaning going on VLN pitlane is always a good place to be We watched the start of the race from the grandstands
Stefan doing his Fangio impression A couple of Sabine's E36 M3s are on display at the museum, hard to beleve one of these cars won the N24, you need a manufacturer and a multi millon Euro budget nowadays. Stefan and Paul both proving that no single seater driver in the world has anything to worry about from them ;-) A reminder of the days when Rover won the DTM
Meanwhile, back at the car park Alfa Romeo's hottest (and most expensive?) super saloon ever, the Giulia GTAm
Apparently, this is a Monoracer: https://www.peravescz.com/ Looks quite lush inside. Seatbelt! Out for a Tourist Lap We also sampled Hyundai's Ring Taxi. At 140 Euros split between 3 people, this is great value. Our driver Patrick had been racing VLN over the weekend: http://www.up2race.de/ A stroll round Cochem And the view from above Cochem
Trip at an end. As we had to drop Stefan at Dusseldorf, it would have been rude not have called at Classic Remise. Always a pleasure to visit this building. Boys and toys! Lovely Alpina B12 5.7, if you have 300,000 Euros to spare 5 door MKI GTi Back on the ferry, popmeister Paul won 1st prize in the pop quiz, free beer! A great end to our trip.
