Le Mans- What car to take?

[turbo-tastic]

Hi All,
Seeing as no-one I know who is thinking of going to Le Mans has a car that could be classed as sensilbe (Audi UR Quattro, Porsche 944, Mini) we thought it would be a laugh to do a "Project Le Mans".

A sub £500 car, that would get us to Le Mans and back in relative comfort, allowing enough room for stocking up on booze 'n' fags on the way there and back. But it has to have some form of comedy value/classy-ness, and not cost the earth to run.

The suggestions so far have been (please note, these have not all been my ideas):

A Chavalier, with humourous chav style add-ons, chrome spinning hub caps, neon washer jets etc.

A polizei style 5 dr nova. (blue flashing lights etc)

A Jaguar XJ6

A classic 2 dr Range Rover

A MK1 Granada (Sweeney style, "Shut it you slaaag!", etc)

I am more than open to other, and hopefully better, ideas. So thinking caps on.
Cheers
Ed.

[littlegearl]

can't help you on your choices but me and my mates have had similar ideas that include buying a big barge or cheap fast saloon and splitting the petrol costs...

eg: Bentley Turbo, XJS etc...

or renting 4 smart cars (there's usually 4 of us) and tour de france style slipstreaming it down...

[vario-rob]

Back in 88 my first visit to the race was in a GT4 (Celica) a car which was much, loved before being sold on to a family friend. Sadly a couple of years ago he passed on and the Celica was sold off at auction. Unsurprisingly after so many happy times with the GT4 I dutifully rocked down to the auction and got her back for a very reasonable £500. A GT4 for a monkey!

Although she hadn’t done much over 70k in her life, spending 10+ years in the open meant she was well past her best so she was either in need of a good couple of grand to get her back to a respectable condition or one last glorious outing. A Viking burial GT4 style! The rightful end for such a noble old charger.

The plan was to drive her down and simply leave her in the car park and see if she was still there with some 6’ weeds round her the next year. Alternatively set light to her in the car park after the race (after the car park was empty of course) and let her join the spirit world of the Sarthe Circuit. Another plan was or take her down to Arnage and leave her in the woods, wedged between some trees, she could be at the very heart of the Holy place for ever more or until Jean Claude found a rope long enough to attach to the back of his 2CV van to tow her away with.

I restored her! So over to you, a mothy old GT4 for £500 needs to be dumped buried or burned at Le Mans.

Asides from that there has been a Lagonda looking for a home on Ebay for months now which I reckon could be yours for not a lot at all. You know you want to

[v15ben]

Surely as it's France's main event you have to go in a 2CV or a Bread Van!!

[phatgixer]

Only one way to do Le Mans

[vario-rob]

phatgixer said:

Only one way to do Le Mans

Speaking in a voice like ‘The Major’ in Fawlty Towers

No no no Fawlty, that’s a bike, you need a Rolls

Just look at her, this is the ultimate in Le Mans support vehicles. Loads of space for Le Booze, loads of space for Le Mates and as British as winning a major European conflict. You can just picture Johnny foreigner running for cover as Winston comes rumbling into view.



So there you go, a shooting break might be stretching things but a Shadow sure as hell isn’t. You can just hear the Elgar thumping out of the 8 track on Friday morning down at Arnage.

[andypowell]

I thought the rules were - take the fastest fecking thing you can lay your hands on or is that just my rule

[ian d]

anything with a bit of style.
last year saw: to name but a few.
vintage bus...class
open top landrover....excentric
old bentley (mine) ........grace over pace
porsches....flipping hundreds
pranching horses........herds of them
charging bulls.......a stampede
euro boxes......well, i suppose you've got to get there somehow?

really anything that goes......it won't look out of place

[turbo-tastic]

All good inputs. Much appreciated.

Although we have found a Chavalier where every panel is a different colour, looking quite possible.
But a mk3 Jag is looking like the favourite

vario-rob said:

GT4 (Celica)

I know them well (check profile )

Cheers, but keep the ideas coming!!!

Ed.

[JIZZSTER]

littlegearl said:

can't help you on your choices but me and my mates have had similar ideas that include buying a big barge or cheap fast saloon and splitting the petrol costs... eg: Bentley Turbo, XJS etc... or renting 4 smart cars (there's usually 4 of us) and tour de france style slipstreaming it down...

[JIZZSTER]

littlegearl said:

can't help you on your choices but me and my mates have had similar ideas that include buying a big barge or cheap fast saloon and splitting the petrol costs... eg: Bentley Turbo, XJS etc... or renting 4 smart cars (there's usually 4 of us) and tour de france style slipstreaming it down...

IM A MERC MAN GOTTA BE ONE CHOICE AND CHEAP MERCEDES SEC 560 W126 COUPE A BEAST OF A CAR
NICE OPTION A W124 MERC E320 COUPE I HAVE A CABRIOLET THEY ARE NOT DEAR TO RUN GOOD FOR 150 MPH EXCELLENT BUILD QUALITY

[JIZZSTER]

IM GOING DOWN IN A MERCEDES E320 W124 CABRIOLET

IF LOOKING FOR A CHEAP SET OF FAST WHEELS BEING A MERC MAN 1 OPTION



W126 SEC 560 COUPE A BEAST WHAT U RECKON!!!


STEEV

[Bobo W]

This time last year there were a number of threads concerning a £500 challenge whereby a car had to be purchased with the sole aim of making it one way as the cars would be used in a destruction derby on the campsite and then mysteriously stolen. The idea is a bit off the wall but I trust there will be some good ideas for car marques were you to find the threads.

[turbo-tastic]

It looks like (so far) the Jag, old BM (5 series or bigger if budget allows) or this superb (but recently ended) Chavalier

For pure comedy value, its gotta be the Chav-wag, but the votes are not all in yet, so its anyones game.

Plus, we haven't got round to sorting out the tickets yet.

[vario-rob]

OK then, how about this for an idea?

You will recall from the Cannonball movie the ideas of using an ambulance for fast and stealthy motoring across a continent.



With a quick trawl through EBAY (again) under the wing it has revealed one of these little beauties which has all of the following going for it

• White
• Fast
• French
• Cheep
• Currently at a grand

Although the EBAY car is a saloon you cans till get yourself a good and working CX estate for a grand and with a couple of ‘MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS’ stickers on the side there is pace and stealth a plenty as the French BIB wave you past totally oblivious

Cunning hey?

[obiwonkeyblokey]

wouldnt you need to be particularly small to drive that citroen ambulance? although at least you wouldnt be seen by les garcons en bleu (or something)

[jvaughan]

a few years ago, there were a pair of dutch lads driving a pink robin reliant. WHen the weather got hot, they cut the roof off, and were driving it about naked.

on the final day, they set fire to it in the campsite, and caught the train home.

[panclan]

How about a hearse, I just looked and there is one on eBay now http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9844&item=4523771685&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[the fury]

The chavalier is total class and looks like it was built to do a tyre-wrecking handbrake assisted burnout on the bit of road near maison blanche on the Friday afternoon. it is it's DESTINY.

but hearses are always value. Have to get a coffin shaped fridge to put the beer in though!

[minornut]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9858&item=4524659901&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

The original Chavalier!