E11OOT
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182/V6/R27/R26R
Well, Myself and a friend of mine decided to a road trip. We were inspired by such events as the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun Rally, with these rallys you pay £30,000 bring a supercar and start driving from 5 star hotel to 5 star hotel. But being students we did have the avaliable funds, so we took a slightly different approach!
Even though we both own perfectly good cars we thought it would be much more fun buying a car just for the trip! Setting a strict budget of £100 or less be set about looking for car, firstly ebay but no joy there. We then phoned around local garages a found what we were looking for! A 1987 Mitsubishi Colt 1.5 GLX for £60, 7 months left on the MOT and 3 months tax. Started perfectly and drove well even had power stearing, a great bargan!
And Here she is.....
We then proceeded to strip out the rear interior to make space for all of our equiptment. As this car only cost us £60 we abused it a little, just for a little bit of fun we added some undercar lighting. We also found £1.20 down the back of the seats so thats a 2% payback!
After all the preperation we set about getting insurance, oh dear this is going to cost alot! Reading carefully throught the small print we found that all insurance companies have a 12 day cooling off period where they have to give you all of your money back! We were going on a trip for 10 days so we took out insurance and then canceled it when we got back and recived a full refund!! FREE INSURANCE FOR 10 DAYS!!
Our route took us from London to Valencia, Spain. We decided to plot a route avioding all toll roads hence saving about 250 Euros. It was fantastic drove for about two or three hours each every day then pitching a camp somewhere and cooking some food on a BBQ. We stopped each morning at supermarkets to bruch our teeth and get food for the day, we always stopped near a river to we could go for a swim and a wash in the evening!
The trip didn't go without some miss-haps and things we really didn't plan for! We overheated only once that was climbing the mountains in spain when it was about 100 degrees....
We where also stopped but drugs customs driving through France on the return leg. This came as a shock, we were escorted off the road by 4 police bikes they then stripped the car bare and the phone ahead and got two dog units to come and have a sniff inside and outside the car, we were laughing so much and this just anoyed the french police even more and obviously they found nothing but this just put the icing on the cake for this trip! Photos were not easy to get because they wanted to take the camera off of us beacuse we were hanging out of the car trying to get some shots!
We got back after our 10 day trip and both agreed it was amazing and plan todo it agin this summer!!
COSTING (between both of us)
Car: £60
Insurance: £0
Petrol: £250
Food: £80
Ferry: £50
The Whole Trip: PRICELESS
OH GOT BACK AND SOLD THE CAR FOR £110!!
Even though we both own perfectly good cars we thought it would be much more fun buying a car just for the trip! Setting a strict budget of £100 or less be set about looking for car, firstly ebay but no joy there. We then phoned around local garages a found what we were looking for! A 1987 Mitsubishi Colt 1.5 GLX for £60, 7 months left on the MOT and 3 months tax. Started perfectly and drove well even had power stearing, a great bargan!
And Here she is.....
We then proceeded to strip out the rear interior to make space for all of our equiptment. As this car only cost us £60 we abused it a little, just for a little bit of fun we added some undercar lighting. We also found £1.20 down the back of the seats so thats a 2% payback!
After all the preperation we set about getting insurance, oh dear this is going to cost alot! Reading carefully throught the small print we found that all insurance companies have a 12 day cooling off period where they have to give you all of your money back! We were going on a trip for 10 days so we took out insurance and then canceled it when we got back and recived a full refund!! FREE INSURANCE FOR 10 DAYS!!
Our route took us from London to Valencia, Spain. We decided to plot a route avioding all toll roads hence saving about 250 Euros. It was fantastic drove for about two or three hours each every day then pitching a camp somewhere and cooking some food on a BBQ. We stopped each morning at supermarkets to bruch our teeth and get food for the day, we always stopped near a river to we could go for a swim and a wash in the evening!
The trip didn't go without some miss-haps and things we really didn't plan for! We overheated only once that was climbing the mountains in spain when it was about 100 degrees....
We where also stopped but drugs customs driving through France on the return leg. This came as a shock, we were escorted off the road by 4 police bikes they then stripped the car bare and the phone ahead and got two dog units to come and have a sniff inside and outside the car, we were laughing so much and this just anoyed the french police even more and obviously they found nothing but this just put the icing on the cake for this trip! Photos were not easy to get because they wanted to take the camera off of us beacuse we were hanging out of the car trying to get some shots!
We got back after our 10 day trip and both agreed it was amazing and plan todo it agin this summer!!
COSTING (between both of us)
Car: £60
Insurance: £0
Petrol: £250
Food: £80
Ferry: £50
The Whole Trip: PRICELESS
OH GOT BACK AND SOLD THE CAR FOR £110!!
. Looks like you had an amazing adventure with pictures to prove it. So funny the fact you put neons on it....lol!!
