The German DAF club is inviting to a meet at the Nürburgring - all variomatic cars are welcome!

http://www.dafclub.de/html/aktuelles.html (the second "post").

Tuesday 2. March 2010, 10:30
old paddock "altes Fahrerlager"
Otto-Flimm-Strasse,
53520 Nürburg

I've no idea what's going to happen, something involving TV and driving backwards. I think I may go and have a look, the 343 needs to stretch its legs ...

Tom

Let's just hope that they don't get tricked into doing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ipFAps ... re=related

Brings tears to the eyes of any DAF enthusiast in particular...
Hundreds of the cars were lost in the name of "entertainment".

Maybe I'd better stay at home

Tom

man people really hate banger racing on here

I feel like buying a vario for this

I might pop over in October for the 25th Anniversary, but it really depends on so many things...

We want pics though!

Well that was fun.

Chucked all the seperate videos into Movie Maker and this came out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgrB5TAfvYM

all not very professional I'm afraid. Also, I forgot to give someone my camera, so there are no vids of the 343 going backwards!

Needless to say, the 343 showed them all what's what. Souped-up Corvette: 84,7 km/h, 343 B14: 85,5 km/h He was a little frustrated at the end

Pics to follow ...

Tom

Pics!





This rusty piece of metal has some history - I visit it every time I go to the ring to remind myself to take it easy It's part of a Ford Sierra door piloted by a friend of mine sometime in 1995 - the car ended up flipping over and we were both fairly bruised and battered ...



Brünnchen:





A wide-angle lens would have proven useful:



The old paddock (unchanged since 1927)



The new Grand Prix paddock:





Arrival of Jockel's Über-DAF:











The best time of the day



The backwards top speeds of the day:

47 kmh: Peugeot 308 Diesel
60 kmh: Audi TTS
69 kmh: BMW M3
71 kmh: DAF 66
84,7 kmh: Corvette C6 Z06
85,5 kmh: Volvo 343 Vario

I was a bit surprised how lax everything was - on Top Gear you see ambulances and doctors all over the place "just in case" - here there was nothing of the sort, speeding along backwards at 53 mph with a cameraman in the back past a few cones, and no one cared! You had to brake and steer pretty hard at the end too, to avoid hitting the fence.

Tom

Great pics! Your 343 is looking great, Tom.

Have I seen that maroon V66 in Autobild before racing an Audi backwards? (Can't get connected to Autobild.de for some reason)

Yes that's the guy A nice chap, Rolf:
http://www.autobild.de/artikel/deutschl ... 51554.html

It's all been done before of course, but it's always good "car topic" I guess. I'm amazed Top Gear haven't come up with similar ideas (which is undoubtably a good thing).

Tom

That's the article, but I still can't get it to connect here on either Firefox or Konqueror. (Connection times out)

You've hit your monthly limit of how many varios you can view Try ctrl + F5 in firefox, reboot browser and try again.



That's one of the coolest classic interiors I've seen

Probably.

I always keep the cache clean, etc. I'll work it out at some point. Maybe the government is blocking me.

I haven't see one of the Blaupunkt equaliser-on-a-stick things since......ooooo.....1985?

Want uberDaf!
That things amazing. Great pics dude.