homeward said:

I quite fancy doing Lands End to JoG, and back (say, starting and finishing in Birmingham...), in a Panda (either as co-driver, or in a Selecta); or around the coast of mainland Britain. Any takers...?!

Goofball? Greaseball? Oddball? Pushball? Screwball? Racketball? Speedball?! :devil:

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Maybe next year?

I started reading this thread & thought screwball before I'd got to your post. Do they still make those (veering onto a food topic(!))? :yum:

homeward said:

I quite fancy doing Lands End to JoG, and back (say, starting and finishing in Birmingham...), in a Panda (either as co-driver, or in a Selecta); or around the coast of mainland Britain. Any takers...?!

Goofball? Greaseball? Oddball? Pushball? Screwball? Racketball? Speedball?! :devil:

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I've always wanted to do a Lands end to JoG run. For those that want to do a longer trip it would be a good way to sort out how the logistics will work.
homeward, you know your always welcome in the co-pilots seat of my cars

VmanC said:

Wouldn't a boat be more useful?

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Perhaps Clarkson, May and Hammond could help

Gavv8 said:

I own a 100hp so my passenger would need to be a chiropractor..

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I own a MJ so my passenger would need to be ballast for the rear seat to cut down on understeer

homeward said:

I quite fancy doing Lands End to JoG, and back (say, starting and finishing in Birmingham...), in a Panda (either as co-driver, or in a Selecta); or around the coast of mainland Britain. Any takers...?!

Goofball? Greaseball? Oddball? Pushball? Screwball? Racketball? Speedball?! :devil:

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Round the coast sounds good. I looked at it several years ago without using motorways and it's upwards of 2,500 miles. Still wouldn't mind having a go at it.

Could do it in aid of a charity, such as the Distressed middle-aged men with facial hair (No. 2 Swiss Account)

The original, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash was run originally in the '70s and was won by the organiser Brock Yates and his co-driver Dan Gurney in a Ferrari 365 GTB/4. There was a fun element in the form of a hired ambulance, as parodied by Burt Reynolds, Jack Elam and Dom deLuise in "Cannonball Run" and the Polish Racing Drivers of America competed in a minibus.

homeward said:

I quite fancy doing Lands End to JoG, and back (say, starting and finishing in Birmingham...), in a Panda (either as co-driver, or in a Selecta); or around the coast of mainland Britain. Any takers...?!

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I'd happily do Lands End to JoG and back or around the coast of mainland Britain, but not if the start and finish is in Birmingham, it's 130 miles from me!

We could do LE to JoG for those in the south, meeting and starting from Lands End and those in the North doing the reverse Starting at John o Groats and we could have a mahoosive overnight meet halfway between the two where we crossover before carrying on to our final destinations.

scout said:

We could do LE to JoG for those in the south, meeting and starting from Lands End and those in the North doing the reverse Starting at John o Groats and we could have a mahoosive head on collision halfway between the two where we crossover to our final destination.

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Fixed that for you.

Alternatively we could use dragonman's place as the crossover point and have a mass fixing/fettling/welding/mending session before completing the run.

Ive just been out for an hour trying to catch a glimpse of them at prestwick airport. By the time they started loading them off the plane they were too dark and far away to see even with the zoom lens on my camera

The Beard said:

Could do it in aid of a charity, such as the Distressed middle-aged men with facial hair (No. 2 Swiss Account)

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I think I've got shares in this...!

homeward said:

I quite fancy doing Lands End to JoG, and back (say, starting and finishing in Birmingham...), in a Panda (either as co-driver, or in a Selecta); or around the coast of mainland Britain. Any takers...?!

Goofball? Greaseball? Oddball? Pushball? Screwball? Racketball? Speedball?! :devil:

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I'll be moving about 150 miles from lands end so if this goes ahead I could have a useful stopover place, lots of panda parking and a functioning garage should be in place by next year someone get planning :slayer:

A load of then has just passed Carlisle

Quite a convoy passed within a mile of my house

Sadly I only has my phone on me so pics aren't great quality and I missed snapping the #1 Fiat 500.

homeward said:

I think I've got shares in this...!

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Quite possibly, buy it will be a (very) minority shareholding as I have 95%

Don't you have to pay to visit Land's End these days?

Just checked - £5 per car

panda panda said:

Don't you have to pay to visit Land's End these days?

Just checked - £5 per car

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In light of this I'd like to suggest we find a lay-by and all pile in the one car. Unless there are about 30 of us in which case a bus might be the better option.

panda panda said:

Don't you have to pay to visit Land's End these days?

Just checked - £5 per car

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I would have thought the fuel costs and overnight stays would be more prohibitive than a few quid to get to the start point. If your baulking at that you won't be doing the full run anyway. :banghead:

Just seen this thread, I was driving back from the highlands on Sunday down the A74M/M6 gutted I didn't see them coming past me at warp speed, instead we just saw a load of Formula Drift teams coming back from Knockhill!!