marc n
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harrogate to portugal drive
just had word that joao from this forum has received his car safe and sound in lisbon at 8pm last night
his friend also called joao flew over on saturday night and stayed at my house saturday and sunday evening and after the alcohol levels subsided went
for a test run on sunday having never driven a bike engined car before before setting off for lisbon
he left here on monday morning at 10 am got to porstmouth at 4-30 after a couple of stops during heavy traffic ( only used £45 of fuel at 70mph ) set
sail at 8 pm ferry crossing took 1 and a half days across sea then drove 900 km through spain and reached portugal last night at 8pm safe and sound
the ironic thing is the weather here was great when he left and as soon as he reached spain and portugal it threw it down and had heavy winds causing
him to stop for two hours
all looks good for the potential mnr owners trip to portugal next year stopping at estoril circuit for some fun
please register your interest here for a possible week / week and a half holiday next year in your car we will try and take in a couple of circuits
along the way but will definately go to estoril, i will of course not be driving my car across as i will be support vehicle in the truck with spares
etc although i will take my car for the track days 
also like to guage interest in some dedicated mnr track days where i can give you all some tuition and advice on how to set the car up and reduce
those laptimes, to raelly get the best from your cars although there are not too many members registered on here i will update all non locost builders
members interested on here to give an idea of the numbers
if we get half of the completed cars to come along we should get at least 20 as of today but many more are in the final throws of completion
best regards
marc
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 07:44 AM |
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Sounds great, shame I own a locost.
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nick205
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 07:53 AM |
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Top effort on Joao's part I reckon 
Marc - will the trip be limited to MNR owners only? I'd be interested, but you'd have to live with an Indy in your pack 
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Dillinger1977
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:01 AM |
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i'd definately be up for both of them Marc (estoril + track days).
theres no way i'd attempt a euro trip on my own but with an engineer in tow how could I say no.
any rough idea of a date? it'll spur me on to get this thing registered
(edit) nearly forgot, Grats on Joao getting his car and Joao(2) getting it over there!
he must be insane to do that!
[Edited on 19/10/06 by Dillinger1977]
-Rog
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smart51
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:09 AM |
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He drove it to Portugal? Madness.
I'd be interested in the trackdays. Not sure about the touring. Maybe.
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marc n
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:11 AM |
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quote:
he must be insane to do that!
its got to help
or it could be all the beer we consumed over the weekend
ref other types of cars coming on the trip, its up to our owners if they mind really 
the essence is to offer our owners the same sort of experiances as the westfield clubs do but in a more personal way
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Howlor
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:12 AM |
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Suprised he aint suffering from Vibration White Arse after that distance!
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marc n
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:13 AM |
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maybe if we open it up to other cars we could have a gumball type event
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marc n
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:13 AM |
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Suprised he aint suffering from Vibration White Arse after that distance!
he had an old workshop lying down mat to combat that
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Howlor
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 08:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by marc n
maybe if we open it up to other cars we could have a gumball type event
How about last one to Estoril is a big girls blouse?!
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 09:11 AM |
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Marc, the last time I did a European trip, mostly BECS btw, we had too keep stopping for the support van too catch up, fortunately he wasn't
needed other than carrying tents food n Beer.......
what van you got ?
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TimC
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 09:31 AM |
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Commitment!
First Class effort that!
As for the Estoril trip and the trackdays, as soon as the machine is built, I'd definately be up for those.
European trip would have to be on a trailer though since the car's not being road registered.
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marc n
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 10:20 AM |
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what van you got ?
daf 45 truck although similar trucks have been known to cruise at 80mph with a trailer on so ive heard
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chockymonster
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 10:25 AM |
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Week long trip to portugal with track driving?
Erm, Yes please!
Vortx track days with tuition?
Erm, where do I sign?
Marc,
Any chance of a copy of the SVA map for the Power Commander?
[Edited on 19/10/06 by chockymonster]
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chockymonster
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 10:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by marc n
ref other types of cars coming on the trip, its up to our owners if they mind really
the essence is to offer our owners the same sort of experiances as the westfield clubs do but in a more personal way
I've done many an Owners club only trackday, Usualy what happened was positions are given to owners as priority and then any left after a
deadline the places are opened to the "public"
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G.Man
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 10:42 AM |
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Am I reading this right..
MNR factory built Joao's car, and his friend picked it up and drove it back to Portugal?
Wow, impressive
Opinions are like backsides..
Everyone has one, nobody wants to hear it and only other peoples stink!
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TimC
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 11:17 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by G.Man
Am I reading this right..
MNR factory built Joao's car, and his friend picked it up and drove it back to Portugal?
Wow, impressive
I think the story's better than that.
Joao collects kit in van.
Drives back to Portugal
Builds Car (very nice too!)
Tows trailer with car aboard back to Harrogate
Car is SVA'd
Joao(2) flies to UK, picks up road legal car and drives back to Portugal.
I think that's what happened..... apologies if I'm wrong!
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marc n
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 11:56 AM |
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yep car came back to us 90% complete ( unfortunately joao ran out of time to his wife expecting twins ) so both joaos spent two days at the workshop
finishing off as many bits as possible then flew home we completed and svad then other joao flew over and drove back
best regards
marc
[Edited on 19/10/06 by marc n]
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Winston Todge
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 12:02 PM |
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I was waiting for a thread like this to come along!
Top effort Marc. Would very definitely be up for this trip. And I should have the car finished by then....
Jerez really isn't a long drive away too, maybe taking in the east coast of Spain through the South and upto Jerez then into Portugal? The roads
upto Rhonda and the like are simply astounding. No straights longer than 500 metres...
Would truly be a trip for all to experience knowing there's a support truck too!
Sign me up, especially to the UK based track days also.
Just gotta get the thing finished now!
Chris.
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amalyos
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 02:39 PM |
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Count me in for both, although you might need a fuel tanker rather than your van.
Steve.
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chockymonster
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 02:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by amalyos
Count me in for both, although you might need a fuel tanker rather than your van.
Steve.
Will we keep having to stop for Ian?
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numnuts
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 posted on 19/10/06 at 03:13 PM |
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I could well be interested in both track and touring . Dion
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Jonte
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 06:50 PM |
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I don´t get this.
Is it possible for them without any problems to import an british sva´d car to portugal and drive it there. Don´t they have anything like SVA in
portugal?
Click it
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chockymonster
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 07:06 PM |
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It's very easy to register a car that's been registered somewhere else in the EU than it is to register a newly built car.
Apparantly it's easier to register it in the UK than somewhere else.
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yorkshire-engines
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| posted on 19/10/06 at 07:13 PM |
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must have been one hell of a R1 engine wonder who supplied it could have been that good looking lad from up yorkshire way
well done is all i can say i drive from leyburn to hull and get a bloody ticket 46 in a 40 sh#t
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