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Congratulations! That's a beauty, and a bold statement on you part to purch a vert in Canada!
Lol. Can you tell who's never been to Vancouver Island?
I had a fever today. A sickness. Induced by women and remote working (a festering loathing of tablets and video conferencing is growing within me, inflating by the day).
But fortune smiles upon me, for on this fine evening I did find a cure for this sickness:
To be frank: I'm beginning to suspect there's nothing that a scenic country jaunt in a six-speed F Type vert can't fix.
Last edited by Luc Lapierre; May 18, 2020 at 02:04 AM.
Lobster roll of chunks of leg/claw/back meat. Best poutine in my extensive research. It’s all in the cheese curd...well and excessive gravy....and just correct sogginess of the fries. Alma harbour...tides out. Bay of Fundy in places has 50’ tides
Having seen a lovely West Coast Post...here is East Coast. So much “ virtual “ going on. This trip enjoyed virtually no traffic so was very spirited snaking along the Bay of Fundy
ps: excellent lobster roll, but not (quite) as excessively excellent as one enjoyed on a FType extravaganza organized by our Maine FType-er Jay
Alan
Luc, I have been to enjoyable Vancouver -- in the summer. At your latitude, I would anticipate some colder months in the Winter. My belief is top down, unless under 40 degrees or over 95. Rain's OK too.
Nice save in the end.....still don’t know how he managed to miss that truck......yikes
I had a similar occurrence about 35 years ago near Eisenhower Pass. I was passing a bus on I-70 in my C4 Vette when I hit a patch of water, spun around going backwards, nose-to-nose with the bus before I safely navigated it backwards into the center median. I had the targa top off and managed to collect close to an inch of gravel in the car.
Quote from Continental:
"The tire industry recommends fitting the new tires onto the rear axle. This will provide greater grip to the rear axle and mitigate any potential oversteer condition or loss of vehicle stability on slippery surfaces."
(Note: this is advice for non-staggered wheel setup). But staggered or not, especially with RWD you want the profile depth for the rears to be at least close to the profile depth of the fronts to avoid the rear spinning out due to aquaplaning. I must admit that guy made a great recovery and was very lucky to miss that truck. Any idea where this happened? From the way the slow traffic keeps to the right lane it is continental Europe?
Any idea where this happened? From the way the slow traffic keeps to the right lane it is continental Europe?
European style plates and driving on the right hand side so probably.
The Jaguar and the car recording the video are both in the far left lane for no good reason though, so it doesn't look like lane discipline is that good
European style plates and driving on the right hand side so probably.
The Jaguar and the car recording the video are both in the far left lane for no good reason though, so it doesn't look like lane discipline is that good
Yep, odds on to be Europe and probably a German autobahn.
10 trillion percent better lane discipline than we have here in Oz though, where lane discipline is a foreign concept.
One of the national road rules here is "keep left unless overtaking" and it's a default rule on every road where the posted speed limit is greater than 80 km/h (a whopping 50 mph).
But almost no-one obeys this rule, lots of them just muppet along in the outside (right) lane at 5, 10, 15, 20 km/h under the posted speed limit without a care in the world.
With some it's ignorance of the rule but with most it's an "up yours" attitude, I'll do whatever stupid slow speed I feel like and I don't give a damn if I'm getting in your way.
There are even some who feel it is their duty to act as "speed enforcers", deliberately driving side by side at way under the posted limit so as to prevent any of those "speeding hoons" from getting past.
This is the result of nearly 50 years now of "speed kills" propaganda and brainwashing here in Oz, two generations of terrible drivers.
We have those civil "speed enforcers" here in DK too, leaving two options, stay behind and feel the frustrations build up inside or take over on the right and be happy. What we don't have here are the entertaining billboards that you have along your highways in Oz, my favorite is "Drowsy Drivers Die".
Had a good time in Oz a few years back, and actually signed the contract for my F-type while I was in Barossa Valley, but have to admit that I did find the authorities in Oz to be a little patronizing.
Some pictures from the first few days of our two weeks roadtrip on the nortwest coast of Norway.
1000 miles so far, and at least twice that to go. The car drives like a dream on these roads 🙂
I laughed when I saw that the only other car on the ferry was parked RIGHT BEHIND you!
At least they didn't pull 3 cm from the driver's door.
(I realize that the operators of the ferry probably directed everyone...they do here. I always take my DD when we use the New London CT ferry out of Long Island, NY...they pack 'em in like sardines)
..2016 F Type S, Firesand.
