It’s a Cliosport adventure!

[Ben H]

Southend Cliosport meets always attract people from miles around, but the pilgrimage for some is longer than most...

For Smoothed Clio and I, it all starts at 11.37am when Pete roars up to my house in Wales in his Naples Red Valver. Tanks are topped up, oil warmed, legs stretched - and the journey begins in earnest.

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We hit the M4 and then M25 for most of the journey, keeping to a steady 60mph. Im in front most of the time, but sometimes Pete just cant help himself from overtaking me and giving it the Full George...

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But with my Valvers subtle tuning, things dont stay that way for long!

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Things go well until we hit traffic on the M25. The temperature gauge shows a heady 37degC and I begin to wish I didnt have a black car with black leather, wearing black clothes!

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But it clears up and we later arrive at Southend, greeted by a bazillion other Clios of all shapes and sizes:

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...and then start on the mammoth trip home. All Ill say is that you couldnt do what we were doing in a 5 Turbo (pic borrowed):

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We get back to Cardiff at about 1.00am for some traffic light action, where Pete wishes that hed not got his 17s on, and have a few comedy races with weedy cars trying to take us on:

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All in all a wicked day and a proper Cliosport adventure!

 

[Ben j]

lol cool

 

[BozVanDam]

he he

 

[GR7]

Well done Ben! It would be nice to see more illustrated adventures like yours!

 

[telford_mike]

Cool mate, sounds like a great day

 

[aaronc]

Good Stuff BenH.

 

[Jas]

nice one! top action.

 

[Nick Read]

Wicked mate, How about a write up of what you do on say, Wednesday this week, like a photo story of your whole day?

 

[Daz]

I could have done one of when we went Demon Tweeks, but I was too busy holding on as Roamer tried to keep up with mr Mike..

 

[BenR]

you must of driven pete bonkers with the 60mph cruise, the m4 must of taken over 2 hrs at that speed, and its only a 1 1/2 hr affiar lol.....

how much slower was petes?

 

[Ben H]

Petes car just accelerated slower than mine, but he would keep the distance between us steady after the initial burst. Like off the Severn Bridge tolls I rapidly made about two or three car lengths, but after that it was the same until top speed. The same would happen if we went for it at, say, 70mph - I would initially pull ahead by a few car lengths, but the gap would stay the same after that (not a thrashing by any means). I reckon a bit was to do with my tuning, and a bit to do with the 17s his car is running.

 

[BigBoreBri]

150+ mph @ 7400rpm and you had time to take a picture!

 

[cerbera4.5]

your very scary,and give people with fast cars like most on here,, who drive fast ,but sensible,, a bad name and stupid insurance premiums.

p.s nice black 16v looks tidy

 

[Adams_16v]

i dont think that pic is real lol!

 

[Ben H]

Like I say, the pic was borrowed, lol!

I did get a similar figure on the way home, down a massive straight with no other cars in sight (never done that before). But Id never have been able to take a photo of that!!

 

[Sawa]

cool adventure!!!

 

[night.icon]

good effort ben !!! its good to see they still let u out for the weekends



john

 

[BenR]

Is that guys nose falling off in teh last pic?

 

[Ben H]

No!

 

[aaronc]

The original pic is mine: The other was photoshoped by someone.

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[peter182]

Nice 1 Ben so whens the next adventure and whens the next meet?

 

[Glennclio16v]

Great work Ben and Pete! I salute your dedication and very mint valvers!

And thanks again Ben for giving me that fuse!!