Gumball 3000

[clumpy1 11]

Anyone seen anything regarding the race this year? been following it?

[clumpy1 11]

Nobody? Well apparently there is two Plane's landing at Prestwick Airport with 35 car's on each which include's 2 Bugatti Veyron's they are then setting off from there early Sunday morning onto Edinburgh just so happen's me and a couple of mate's are going up to Crail Raceway on Sunday for Retro car day so we are going to try and get in on the convoy as we go that way to Crail I will have someone in the passenger seat of mine so hopefully will get some good pic's/video footage there is Ferrari's Mclaren's I can't wait I will try my best to keep up but in a 170bhp Vectra trying to keep up may be tricky but we will try :norty:

 

here's the entry list here https://www.gumball3000.com/rally/entry_grid

Edited June 6, 2014 by clumpy1

[clumpy1 11]

Just helping one of my mates with the finishing touches can't wait for 2moro

[easypops 8]

Enjoy mate :)

[Billzeebub 1]

Shmee150 is doing the Gumball and posts up daily escapades on his YouTube account. I'm not a fan of his Supercar chasing escapades generally, but it should be a good way to see the event. Plenty of videos up already. I'm sure many others are also doing video diaries

[clumpy1 11]

Enjoy mate :)

Cheer's pal we will hopefully get some footage of the gumball car's will get pic's from crail itself too weather is looking good for 2moro which is good

[Shep___ 10]

A couple of the cars have livestreams of onboard cameras during the day:

 

http://www.autogespot.com/gumball

http://live.deadmau5.com/w/deadmau5/

[maff 10]

Little story on the founder of the gumball aka 'max, maximillion cooper', he lived in my small town namely upton upon severn and he taught me to ollie my skateboard years ago and I've still got his old board in my shed, top chap, know his mum and family lovely people, there are gum ball stickers plastered everywhere in upton:-D

[clumpy1 11]

Ok folk's went down to just outside Prestwick Airport this morning at around 7.15am the Gumballer's were supposed to be leaving at 7.30 but didn't actually see any until around 9ish the first to appear was one of the MC12's what a machine and the noise then it went immense Veyron Brabus 6 wheel thing 800bhp EV12 got some footage on phone will try and post it up 2moro then headed up to Crail cracking day sun oot for a change I've got some pic's and a couple of vid's Highlight had to be a Mk1 Escort running up against a 240Z escort in the low 12's with the 240z just pipping it in the high 11's some seriously quick car's thoroughly enjoyable petrol head day

[krishen 2]

I popped down to Regents street around 6pm to check the cars out. Saw that 6 wheel brabus merc. Was immense. And even got a high 5 from the Hoff (riding on his Nissan GTR)

Walked to the little side road where they were entering Regents Street and it was great. Less people, no barriers and most of the drivers were willing to rev the nuts off their cars to please the crowd. All in all a great evening.

[clumpy1 11]

Here is a couple of pics from Crail

[clumpy1 11]

And a couple more ]

[robrado974 1]

Some great cars there James , nice pics .

[Jim 2]

That 240Z is glorious!

[clumpy1 11]

Some great cars there James , nice pics .

Cheer's pal just phone pic's and I aint no Cameraman the mk1 escort the 240z and the mini all very quick the mini showed up some car's astra Vxr plus a few other's even an RS4 struggled with it Duel of the day had to be the MK1 escort and the 240z amazing 240 just got it but the escort wasn't quite right the guy went tinkering with it for a bit came back and blew allsort's awawy and it was only a Crossflow on twin carb's Pure animal though. There was also a couple of Skyline's running big power they were getting up to 135 on the quarter however there was a 4x4 Cossie that pushed one to a car length i spoke to the owner and he reckoned his is 400+ (never on roller's) straight cut box atb diff front another on back it was running just over 12 second quarter's some quality machine's up there and I didn't get pic's of half of them

[clumpy1 11]

That 240Z is glorious!

And RRRRRapid too Jim it was a joy to watch it and the escort go up the strip They even turned off the silly banging music for them to RWD lightweight animal's going head to head Quality

[clumpy1 11]

I have found out some more info on the Mk1 escort it's a crossflow with harris head cnc machined piston's Titanium part's double valve spring's twin 48 dellorto's 225 bhp and only weigh's 720kg's it make's Vxr astra's st focus's look pedestrian an absolute animal and the noise it make's is amazing Love it

[KipVR 1]

I was a Gumball marshall in 2000 (I think!) great cars, got to go to lots of places in Barcelona Grand Prix, but most of the people doing it were tossers. Max is a good guy.