The Camaro Club (UK)

Well I'm off on a serious driving holiday tommorow at 5am.

It's the Petrolhead Nirvana Alpine Tour which leves from Folkstone and is 8 days driving covering 2500 miles of the best of the Roads Europe has. Stelvio Pass, San Bernadino pass, Col de Turini, Fluella pass and loads more

The list of cars going is brilliant:
2 x Porsche GT3's
3 x Ferrari 360's
2 x Lotus Exige's
Porsche Carrera 4
Lotus Elise
VW Scirocco R
Audi S4
E46 M3
Turbo'd MX5
Ferrari 355
Civic Type R
Bmw Z3 M
Bmw Z4 M
Megane R26
Aston DB9
Mini Cooper S works
BMW 130
Bmw 650
+ me in the Camaro

should be fun.. !!! I'll put some pics up on the return...

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I'n not jealous cos i'm getting up at 9am and going to B and Q! Without all that traffic you'll be in

Seriously, you lucky bugger. Look forward to pics

Cheers......Tim

Well bu@@er me, what an adventure... !!

You could never do a trip like this on your own, covering over 2500 miles, but absolutely flying for over 1500 miles of moutain passes and the most ridiculous roads I've ever seen.
You would never stumble on these roads if driving through the Alps as we were often well off the beaten track... I'd highly recommend anyone try this at least once in their life, as I've never driven so hard on the road in my life, and had days of incredible tail-out action. The Camaro coped well, but I realised the limitations of a live rear axle on uneven roads with bends at serious speeds.

We had a few losses, 996 GT3 had collison with a kerb and snapped a suspension arm, Supercharged Honda engined Elise broke a supercharger pulley, 997 GT3 sprung a radiator leak (managed to get it replaced in northern Italy and carry on), Carrera 4 hit a bank and broke the front rad and cooler, and the DB9 split a transmission cooler pipe on the last day. My old boat was fine

The tour ran with a lead car (BMW E46 M3 with very modified brakes suspension and re-map) and set a blistering pace with a navigator calling out over 2-way radios that we all had to let the rest of the group know about oncoming cars, so basically enabling us to over take any slower traffic and fly round blind corners without issues. We had a another chase car (Ferrari 360) midway to help and a support car (S4 Avant) at the rear..

I've put some pics up below, and will link to some vids when I find em.

boarding the Eurotunnel train to France


Trucking down through France and into the Black Forest in Germany


Keeping up with a BMW 650i and a 360 Ferrari on the mountains on the Route Napolean.


The famous Stelvio pass in the morning.. bit tricky and 9000ft


Umbrail pass on Italian / Swiss border


Mille Miglia Museum in Italy


Squeezing through the narrow streets of ski resort Courmayeur in Italy


Last mountain shot near Geneva on the way home..


More Porsche and Ferrari chasing in Switzerland


Top of the San Bernadino pass in Switzerland



loads more pics (not mine) here:
http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m10/ ... ur%202010/

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few more

Halfway up Stelvio


Towards the top of Stelvio, and chasing a Lotus Exige


Stopping for a break by Lake Maggiore in Italy


Nice change from the London streets I'm used to..

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Wow!!!! What a great adventure & fantastic roads to drive by the looks of it, hurry up & find the videos

cheers...Nige

ps you going to Prescott on October 3rd??

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Too much power...not enough hands!!

Alas, my Camaro's not in it, but found this, filmed by one of the guys in a Ferrari 360, just gives an idea of the roads, scenery, the pace we were doing and the radio banter..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vws1y46QAz4

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Another video of this trip has just been edited and put up, so here it is.. I feature a fair bit in it too ..
The 3 Ferraris blasting through the tunnels together was fun..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqYpGNmkQk

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Hi video was ace i bet the sound track especially in the tunnels was the dogs (no sound on utube on my puter) what an adventure Cheers Neil PS Lucky Bxxxxxxd

Hi watched it whith sound on utube as i thought the dogs to be their must have been a dream come true once again Cheers Neil

found parts 2 and 3 now as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlcfRR4_J9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdBOf-8k ... re=related

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