if I ever manage to get my a$$ up north to do a proper road drive;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3185226/Scotland-s-answer-America-s-Route-66-named-six-coastal-road-trips-world.html

I'm guessing the roads have always been there, and someone has merely joined them up and given it a name? Looks nice though.

The road from Inverness to Ullapool is absolute bliss (the route covers half of it). The Cairngorms have some cracking driving roads too.

I have driven all of this route many times , it is absolutely brilliant , earlier in the year I drove part of it in the MK Indy......