On the 4th July me in my Morris Minor and my friend in his Austin Mini will be leaving at 12noon after Andy has finished work. We will be leaving Cheltenham behind and setting off for Dover. We have to make good progress down to Dover as we have a ferry booked for 5.50pm.
We catch a crossing to Calais which will take 1hour 15mins and then when we are in France we are setting up camp as soon as possible. After the short overnight stop we will be getting up early for the biggest stretch of driving in the holiday. We will be driving from Calais all the way across France to Pornic 412miles away! I have done this before but it was in a modern Pug206.
Once in Pornic we will move around from time to time setting up camp in different places and enjoying the French scenery. The journey home a week later is the same but reversed.
All sounds fairly straight forward yeah? Ok well here is my car:
And this is his car:
And I’m 200 miles away from the car and he has a full time job!!! The challenge is to get both cars on the road in time. I have to work like crazy in my uni holidays and will be getting the car resprayed while I am at uni to save time and Andy will be working most weekends and evenings.
We will keep you updated with the progress and then how we get on during the holiday driving the cars. No doubt there will be plenty of pictures taken.
A few more details about the cars:
My car 1959 Morris Minor 100% standard + stereo will carry Me the driver, Dan cosh, his girlfriend Jane and allot of the camping gear.
Andy’s Car Classic Austin Mini with original running gear but sporty wheels and interior. Andy will be taking a friend and camping gear.
Good luck and have fun.
