my name is Yves-Andre PEIGNON and I am french.
I am sorry if my english is not perfect …
With a friend of mine in Spain, we would like to organise the first 3000GT Meeting in EUROPE.
I am in contact also with italian team, I wait the answer.
My friend Carlos will be in charge to call her Spanish Friends,
We are in contact with Cristian to call the Italian Friends,
You Paul will have to call your UK Friends,
And me I will call my french friend and organise the metting in France close to the 3 contry … in south of France close to the beach.
What do you think of this plan ?? are you able to help us or organazing this metting ??
I need your help for the UK team … I know that it is far from UK but some of you could be so creazy to come, I am sure.
I have no idea of the number of team we will meet (UK+Spain+Italia+France) but this will be for sure very interesting !!!
We will discuss about our passion : the 3000GT (we will have also real GTO from Japan, and i am sure very good car from UK also, some rare car like GTO MR and super charged car …).
I wait for your answer … many thanks for your help, I hope you will enjoy the idea.
Carlos and I are very motivate by the idea , I hope you will be also.
This sounds a very good idea for in the summer but I think driving to the south of france and back will cost a small fortune and also how long would this meet last? As an overnight stay, I dont think it would be worth it but a long weekend would be better but even that will take the best part of a week by the time you drive there and back.
Having done a road trip around Europe last year, I would definitely be up for this. It will be quite an expensive trip with all the toll roads, hotels, fuel (although fuel is cheaper in France than over here, unless you use Shell Optimax Racing like I did) but it will be a fantastic trip and will more than likely be a big boost for the club
I’m not sure I have the organising skills to coordinate this on my own but would be interested in teaming up with someone to do it…?
I agree that a Ferry there might be a good idea and then a good drive back - at least if anyone breaks down then it is on the way home and doesn’t spoil the rest of the meet? I could well be up for this! At the end of the day, it’ll probably cost about a months petrol money (~1000miles?)
I think it would be nice for one of our established events organisers to enquire as to possibilities. Did I miss when this meet was proposed to occur?
I think the frenchies seem to forget that we are Right Hand Drive and so probably have more Japanese GTO’s here than they might think :lol:
Google Maps says just over 800 miles Reading to Marseille, just over 12 hours driving.
So, nearly £400 on fuel (more if you live further from Dover, of course), ferry or train fares, road tolls plus overnight stays.
Add on food & drink, extension of insurance & breakdown cover.
About £800 if nothing breaks. More if you can’t drive for 6 hours a day - and I can’t.
most Car Insurers include european cover for a number of days so as long as you check that should be alright.
I always take out a european recovery policy though just in case. Perhaps this would be better as a fleet policy if a number of cars are going, I’d be happy to look into if there is sufficient interest.
I checked and the Ferry to bilbao was about £637.00. The crossing takes a day which means we’ll all be well rested/drunk before the long drive. You have to have some sort of accomodation/reserved seating. Then an 8 hours drive so basically a day of driving to South of France. But hey what a drive. Alternatively from Pompey is about 12 hours of driving 834 miles or £208.00’S Worth of fuel at 22MPG. Plus accomodation so would come in cheaper but a bit more hassle. Either way you could get a group discount on the ferry crossing and accomodation depending on how many go and it woud more like a few days holiday than a car meet.
Food for thought, driving in France is much better than driving in the U.K IMHO plus you can time yourself between the toll booths like need for speed!!! Perhaps now is the time for that all important european road trip.
Using somewhere like Montpellier as the meet in June 2011.
For me, living in the south east, it would make far more sense to drive the 750 miles there, stay somewhere the night before and after the meet, then drive back again.
You can get a reasonable hotel with parking for around £50 a night and the ferry from Dover to Calais is around £100 return. Going on around 250 miles per tank, I’d say around £500 in fuel there and back so you’re easily looking at £700 per car for the Europe meet before food and drink.
OUCH!!!
I’d be up for it though, best get saving now!!
Perhaps somewhere a bit further north would be a fairer option for all countries concerned?
not sure how you get that £ for fule… italy cost me around £800 to take the car their and back. on the tolls and fule and crossing. that was the n/a aswell.
say 3 tanks their 3 tanks back, tolls and crossing + food and drink + hotels prob looking around £1k
I used to live near Strasboug, which is just about central France but on the Eastern side. It used to take about 5 - 6 hours and the tolls were roughly £10 if you drove through Belguim and Luxembourg, or £40 if you stayed on the French autoroutes. I know that it’s perhaps not in the spirit of a road trip but I think that the trains in France can also take cars. Might help with the fuel costs if we used it one way.
Once I get a provisional date (Is June 2011 the date they have given us?) I will start researching the cost of ferries and see if block bookings would give any discount.
To ease the language barrier, does anyone on the forum speak french?
[quote]Ok, lets get a list started of who is interested:
GTO Scott
Once I get a provisional date (Is June 2011 the date they have given us?) I will start researching the cost of ferries and see if block bookings would give any discount.
To ease the language barrier, does anyone on the forum speak french?[/quote]
June 2011 was just my ramblings. Don’t take that as any sort of fixed date, same applies with the venue. I just used Montpellier as it was the first place I saw in the south of France on Google maps. That said, I am still V interested.
834 miles or £208.00’S Worth of fuel at 22MPG. Plus accomodation so would come in cheaper but a bit more hassle. Either way you could get a group discount on the ferry crossing and accomodation depending on how many go and it woud more like a few days holiday than a car meet.
