Yank in your neck of the woods

[m3dragon]

Originally Posted by derek

Hi is that tomorrow or mon you will be at glover arms only 1 mile from my house if its tomorrow I can meet you cheers Derek

HAHA nice. We are in a Black 308 (yellow plate) KNI3 CKJ so you can find the car. Can't miss me, Shorts, t-shirt that says Curacao. Figure around 12:30 -1 based on the route we just made. After lunch we are going to see the
Huntingtower Castle

Chat with you tomorrow hopefully.

Cheers

[derek]

Just sent pm with contact details

[derek]

Ali is going to turn up as well

[m3dragon]

No mobile ( I know we went off grid, crazy huh) .

We will be there for sure so up to you guys if you still want to come out. If not no worries.

Cheers from Inverness

[derek]

Hi me and Ali will be there about 1230 look fwd to meeting you

[m3dragon]

Thank you Derek and Ali for taking the time to show me your amazing cars. It was a honor to meet you guys. Sorry we could not chat longer, I am sure we would have talked cars all afternoon but the wife might have gotten a bit mad as she wanted to see Sterling Castle.

In either case thank you again. I need to get / make a few changes to my car now after seeing yours. So no sure if that was a good or bad thing LOL.

If you guys ever make your way to CA, NorCal area, let me know as we have plenty of room to put you up for the night and show you the area. Tahoe and Yosemite are close.

Thanks again.

[gingernuts]

No probs! Nice to meet you too, and good luck with the project!

[m3dragon]

I did forget to ask you when we were talking about roads a few questions that I have not been able to figure out since I have been here. These my I know will sound silly but have a good chuckle over them.

1. What is the speed limit for you A and B roads? I only see signs near / in towns and other than that I am "I guess go as fast as you want". My guess is 60 on A roads but there are people flying at 80 so I follow them.

2. Speed camera signs. Are they always there or only when the cops have the van out? In Ireland, I saw the sign and slowed down. People FLEW past me when I slowed so now I just look around and igonre them. I assume (probably wrong) that is the cat and mouse game we play in the states with the cops hiding off the road with radar guns.

Enjoy the laugh.

[streightsix]

Not laughing at all...

Both of your assumptions are correct dude, 60 unless there's a barrier between each side on what we call dual carriage way(2 lane) in which case it's 70.
(no barrier it's still 60!)

Watch were the 2 lane ends because it's a good game the 'plod' play to catch you at the end of one when it returns to single each way where due to frustration you could be 70+ ;-) trying to pass a caravan train and there will be a van waiting to catch you as you re-enter the 60!

It's all a game and IMHO a cash cow, bring back a human and a subjective assessment on how you were behaving and the road conditions etc...

Look out for white police vans (with some patches of hi vis stickers) parked on:
Motorways: On bridges normally on dangerous stretches or downhill sections where it's easy to pick up speed.
A/B roads: In laybys, van will have a rear smallish window section dropped.

Generally if you're very observant and don't take the piss (& you know what to look for) you should be fine
...but if say how quaint we all are and how funny it is they don't carry guns that might work ...or you could just leave the country

[m3dragon]

Thanks for the 411.

So far we have been using the force so lets hope it is strong with us the rest of the trip.