Pat_McCrotch 0 Posted April 22, 2011 Hoping to get a few mates together in late August for a charity drive to Germany and the Nurburgring. Hoping to raise about £250-£300 per car for the charity Headway. Because my friends are all reaching that age where were having to sell our pride and joys for houses I thought this would be a good way to keep our 'ring trips fresh...and without me sacrificing my Corrado! :D Been trying to put together an idea of how it would work and what cars we could use; Challenge: - Three teams to Purchase a German made vehicle up to the value of £600. Car to be draped in team livery. - Minimum of 3 people in each team, camping only. No hotels! - Travel to Europe and do four laps of the Nurburgring. - When this is completed, all cars will go there separate ways to visit the cars factory of manufacture in Germany to do a museum tour and obtain photographic evidence. - Each team to blog and photograph the whole trip and there experiences. - Find 1 item that your team feels sums up the countries you'll be visiting (France, Belgium & Germany) - Once we get on the Eurotunnel return trip, we'll rate each other in a series of categories to establish who has bought the best car. Points out of will be out of a maximum 50 per category + Reliability and fuel economy + 0-60mph test & a 60-0mph test & top speed on the autobahn vs manufacturers claimed speed. + An inspection to discover what is and isn't working. + Points on general condition. + Spending or retaining any leftover change from the initial budget on repairing and/or modifing the cars + Originality of the items you bought from each country. The Charity Aspect - People to sponsor on the condition of getting back the car back on it's own power. - Any profit from the sale of the car on the return to the UK to go to Charity. Timetable Saturday 5am – Leave via Eurotunnel (Folkestone to Calais) 6:30am – Arrive in Calais. Leave for the Nurburgring. 1:00pm – Arrive in Nurburgring. Visit museum & castle etc Sunday All Day - Carry out each cars four laps. Evening – Smash our lives up with the locals and other enthusiasts! Expect this day to be very busy as it's a usually Touristenfahrten. So the laps will easily take an up a full day. Monday 9:00am onwards: Leave for Factory visit. Depending on what car we eventually get this could take anywhere from 2 hours to 7 hours! Arrive at destination and grab dinner, get drunk etc! Tuesday 10am – Leave for Eurotunnel 7pm – Arrive in UK 9:00pm – Arrive back in Essex So, any ideas as to other ways we can increase charity money & what I can buy for £500? (want to keep back £100 for any repairs that may be required!). One of our participants will require an automatic (he lost a leg). My list so far; - 1995 Ford Scorpio Cosworth(the bug-eyed one, with leather etc) - 1995 Vauxhall Omega 3.0 - Audi A4 & Audi A6 (around 1999) - BMW 318 or BMW 520 (around 1995) - Mercedes C200 or E220 (around 1995) - Audi Coupe (1996) - Ford Puma (2000) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
