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Lets just get a barrel. Im sure you get more in there 
Better see what room we have for them 
'' 9 ''man tent arrived today, bought it from Ebay for £40 brand new. I've priced the same up in the shop, £250..!!! So by now you shoud have ticked all the following:( bring rubber mallet )£200 would be enough to travel with.AW11 Forever..! wrote:My new
Always a laugh watching people put new tents up in the sun for the 1st time.
Have pre-purchased a circuit parking ticket for race weekend.
Have organised MR2 insurance and European breakdown cover.
Have all the necessary car safety items required by French law, 1st aid kit, spare bulb kit, GB sticker, warning triangle.
Checked spare tyre or carry a can of tyre weld.
MR2 serviced, coolant change, and tuned.
Checked tent and bought spare/new tent pegs
Checked airbed for holes.
Ordered Euros, probably
Printed confirmation of hotel, chateau and ferry booking.
If I think of anything else I'll add it.
... I think i'm pretty much sorted on that front.... that way me and alex wont be the only ones scratching are heads for most of the day 
£40 for a 9 man tent is bloody good I thought our 6 man was going to big a big effort 
You didn't happen to buy off a company on ebay called "Tentastic" They have some right bargains on there. DONT FORGET PASSPORT& HEADPHONES FOR LISTENING TO RADIO LEMANS DURING RACE.. Do foreign cash points charge a huge amount to take euros out? Is it best to take the full amount in euros now? Think it is compulsary over there. You may already have with your insurance. If not AA may be best option - Best thing to do is get on ebay. You can buy bulb kit in a box for about £3.50 posted to you. Remember the light deflectors and warning triangle to.Also need first aid kit and reflective jacket. 
I'm with natwest so will look into it. I'm taking a brand new alternator and water pump for anyone to use in case the worst happens, piece of mind really but you never know, I wouldn't like to think how long it would take Toyota France to get one to you. You can also pay the chateau, petrol, supermarket, etc with your card. I'll have the route posted in the next few days. Some are going via Rouen and some are taking a more scenic route down the coast.
deadfastnfurious wrote:Michael, any chance we can have your mobile number? We can get hold of you on the Tuesday morning at least before we catch the ferry? Really dont know where im going once when we reach France.
If you want to you can enter your own car into the Concourse de Elegance and get to drive the red carpet infrom of 200 people. Gordon and Alison Moffett did it last year so ask them about it when you see them. If you would like to attend come and see me before the race weekend as we will need to book numbers. Theres 2 x tickets for the grandstand at tet rouge which is a great part of the circuit going for about £100, snip!!( and lasses )
@ 07.00am on Tuesday 12th June and it takes 50 minutes to get to the port of Boulogne, therefore we will arrive in France @ 08.50am French time. If you are now on our ferry and want to meet us once in France we will need to arrange this, remember I've never beento the port of Boulogne so we will need to meet further down the road, probably on the A16 somewhere. Ring me to arrange before we set off on Monday 11th.
Check-in, shopping and catering facilities are exclusive to SpeedFerries customers in both Dover and Boulogne.
CAN I SUGGEST ONCE WE ROLL OFF THE FERRY WE ALL MEET UP IN THE CARPARK AT BOULOGNE AS MENTIONED ABOVE Shocker 
OMG.£65 for breakdown cover, and I still have to buy bulbs, jacket, warning triangle, headlight stickers, etc..... But, hey, I have lots of money in euros, AND my exquisite schoolboy French to get us by.(a shallow bid for popularity)."to-do" lists, but please tell me we aren't the only slackers out there..?.... In fact i aint even got my Euros yet 
... I'll still be getting stuff on the way down to dover lol - for each person in the car- Drivers licence, Insurance etc& translation from euros to pounds at the going exchange rate - withdraw largish amounts infrequently.- pneu (silent p)/ brake fluid - liquide pour l'embrayage / frein- l'eau- l'essence- sans plomb- biere- encore biere- don't even try. It's rude!- de rigeur on Mad Friday.£5 - £10, not sure if the ''slime option'' wil be available.
The Darlek is actually a water container for the pistols!! I'll try and source together pictures of people who will be attending this year so we can put names to faces.( Charles Fox )
''Andre'' Moffett and Alison Moffett
- Stuart Kynoch
.!!!!!!!
- Not sure if attending this year??
DavidJ wrote:Hello,
Steph and I have been a bit slack and left stuff til the last minute.
Now I realise we have to leave at 4am to be at Dover for a 7am sailing.
I still have to buy bulbs, jacket, warning triangle, headlight stickers, etc.
on tuesday morning to get down to the ferry port in time ! (anyone else driving down the M1 wanna meet up so I dont feel so lonely 
£9.99 from halfords they also do a bulb kit, I cant remember the price but I think thats about the same. 
but I have only just sorted stuff like this out in the last two days, I still need to check my tents ok and not rotted to pieces up in the damp shed, change the dizzy cap, clean my airfilter, change the brakefluid and get the tracking checked before I am ready to go? (now getting V. Excited)? Is it cheaper than in England?