Well done Rob fantastic road trip!
Considering the Car was pretty much untested before this, one dizzy and a fuel filter is a testament to Nissan Engineering.
Yep - undriven for many years, quick service, and then 3100 miles with only simple faults. I'm smitten with Japanese reliability!
Fantastic Robert....and if any of you DO want photos of his wife, I have a reasonably full set soon to be going up on ebay.
I never fanced the neighbours dog anyway!
I LOVE the sunset photo on the beach road - superd - do tell me that you got plenty of looks in the Z whilst in Monaco ?
LMClassic 2014 will be in a local pro. campsite in the village of Spay - I felt the same way as you and also it's too expensive !
Flares are in then................?
Sell them. You'll make next to no money I promise!!
Shame about the dog though - they've a yappy Chiwawa which needs certainly at least a kick up the **** to attempt to shut it up!
Monaco was wonderful. Most people thought the car was a ferrari (it's debadged so no Datsun anywhere!) and random people were photographing it. At one point, in a queue, someone asked the ferrari infront of us to move out the way so they could see/photo our car, and then they ignored the bentley behind! I guess the supercars are a common sight out there!
LMC 2014 I was gonna reply to you on - I like the look of the cabins.. Would they be available?
And yes, flares never went out of fashion. You should try wearing them out in public more often!
The pics look fantastic. I definitely need to drive the car in my country more than I do
If you do not remember me, I was the latest Frenchy to leave the camp site with my red Z on Sunday. It was really nice to meet you and the rest of the UK crew.
People from UK are definitely crazier than French people when it comes to cars, it's great to experience also the culture differences
Yes - I remember you! Your Z had the electric fuel pump upgrade yes? Was nice to meet you (made easier by your excellent English meaning communicating was easier as my French is shocking!!) and have a chat come the end. Just a shame everyone left on the Sunday for work on Monday leaving us numpties to hang around and giggle at the guys who took our dumped BBQ and knackered chairs!!
A fantastic write up of what appears to have been a wonderful trip, thanks for that I really enjoyed it.
You and your wife will remember the trip forever and these cars are pretty reliable aren't they? I have so many great memories of trips in my 'old' 240Z, that's what ownership of 'classics' is all about.
Blocked fuel filter is to be expected, but I'd like to know what went wrong with the dizzy.
Thanks again for sharing the trip with us!
I've stripped the dizzy down, and simply the points are screwed. There's like a little material in the "hammer" part, and that had split and half had fallen away, meaning next to no contact could be made. I guess then not enough electricity, leading to not enough spark caused the failing. At the time, I just swapped the dizzy - wasn't in a position to spend time working out what had gone wrong!!
Nice trip
Many thanks for sharing it with us.
If you plan visiting the Alps again head further east, cheaper and nicer scenery, the South Tirol and Corinthia in Southern Austria/Italy (Dolomites) are my favourites. Might be biased being half Austrian
Spent 15 years "pass bashing on fast motorbikes", you need great brakes and engine cooling!!!!
We've done North East Italy before, and agree a lot of the roads are fantastic. Shame we did it in a Rover back then, so may have to think about going again... It's not like a need much of an excuse to drive the car if I'm honest!! Definitely wanting some new suspension before I go on any long drive though - it's all ok, but due to the setup without all the gubbings in the boot the suspension setup is all wrong (too short springs etc) and yet with all the gubbings in the boot the handling isn't so great. Once done though, we'll be off somewhere again in the new year (need to reset my work holidays!!)
Great photos and a great story Rob!
Cheers marco! Next time it may be in some yank tank too, so will have to try to persuade you along in the Mustang to keep the Corvette happy!