Mhmm. 8)
http://vimeo.com/113012765
YES
Hadn't seen that. Thanks evan.
I've done this trip!!!
In a bus.
One day.... sigh
Oh my giddy aunt !
http://www.bbcshop.com/category/top-gear/icat/topgearbluray
Well, we bought this and the first version but of course yanks run different BluRay format (50 frames per second vs 60 frames per second) to the UK and Australia so it doesn't play on our US bought player. So until I find a player that runs both AND converts the output to the U.S. format, it's paper weight. :(.
When does the next pane leave to head over to do that drive?
Who'd like to be part of it????
I would like to join you Barry, but i can't take the 33 on the plane as hand luggage.
I imagine if we had a good road like that,in Australia the speed limit would go up and down to confuse you so the authorities, could take plenty of photo's to fill the coffers, [for road safety only], Colin.
Quote from: colcol on January 11, 2015, 09:24:45 PM
I imagine if we had a good road like that,in Australia the speed limit would go up and down to confuse you so the authorities, could take plenty of photo's to fill the coffers, [for road safety only], Colin.
Kinda, it will be ruined by being signposted 60 and 80km/h and filled with Toyota's doing 40 and 60km/h respectively, as I found out and frustrated by, today. But you are wrong about the photo's, you will never be speeding because you will be staring at the fugly ass of a Toyota.
Did I mention I hate Toyota's.
Neil, I think you are being a little harsh. There is nothing wrong with Toyotas, just the people that drive them. Some of the newer ones actually drive quite well and whilst they are no Alfa Romeo they can be hustled along quite quickly. :)
Oh, I am sorry, like this "V8" Aurion with the $10 optional extra!!!! It's still fugly.
I have said to my wife that if I ever hint at the suggestion buying a Toyota, she was to take the BFH and tap me hard on the back of the head.
I apologize, off-topic.
Who's up for a drive along GOR with new speed limits of 80km/h.
I remember going along this section of coastline some years back, staying in Amalfi on account of my younger sister getting married up in the hills (hilltop town) above Amalfi.
Sadly, I too only got to go down this section of road in a bus and a boring rental car.
But it is a fabulous coastline.
I think I'll leave the Toyota thing alone for now but back on topic the Amalfi coast is truly amazing, I travelled along it last year. As great as our Great Ocean Road is the road along Amalfi Coast is at another level, it almost makes our road look very ordinary. :'(
I did Amalfi by Alfa a couple of years ago - rented a 1963 Giulietta Spider. Was terriffic. Lovely little car - heroic little single carb 1300...
Great Ocean Road, was full of potholes, the last time the club went for a run along there, poor old 33 broke a front suspension on the potholes, it would be best on a early Saturday morning, a few money camera's along the way to spoil any fun, Colin.
Quote from: LaStregaNera on January 12, 2015, 11:28:23 AM
I did Amalfi by Alfa a couple of years ago - rented a 1963 Giulietta Spider. Was terriffic. Lovely little car - heroic little single carb 1300...
Really.. Got a link/memory for the rental?
We stayed in Minori (on Amalfi coast) for three weeks a few years back, had a new Fiat500 as a rental. Fantastic fun. I want to go back!
http://www.zephyrus-classic-car-rental.com/classic-car-hire-italy/index.php/en/
There's a couple of classic rental joints, but this is the one we used. Picked it up outside the train station in Chiusi in Tuscany, and one of their staff collected it from our hotel in Rome. Was great fun blasting around Tuscany, was happy enough on the Autostrada running down past Naples, and just lovely around Amalfi. Got plenty of thumbs up from people too.
Quote from: LaStregaNera on January 12, 2015, 11:28:23 AM
I did Amalfi by Alfa a couple of years ago - rented a 1963 Giulietta Spider. Was terriffic. Lovely little car - heroic little single carb 1300...
fotos or it didn't happen lol
Picking the car up in Chiusi
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Somewhere in Tuscany (Montalcino? Montepulciano?).
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Chasing a very slowly driven California up the hill to another medieval town in Tuscany - Cortona maybe? The driving gloves made excellent sense.
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Parked outside our hotel in Sorrento
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Positano:
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Road to Amalfi
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Time to say goodbye in Rome:
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I don't have a photo of us being interrogated over an expired rego label by the Carabineri, submachine guns and all - although we do have a photo of that somewhere.
FFS... To cool :)
Was it extraordinarily expensive (PM if you want)?
Just adding this to my todo list
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Actually, yes, yes I am. Wow.
you win the internet today
Quote from: Craig_m67 on January 13, 2015, 07:26:00 PM
FFS... To cool :)
Was it extraordinarily expensive (PM if you want)?
Just adding this to my todo list
It wasn't outrageous - I think they have their current pricing on their website somewhere - but I seem to remember it was ~1100euro for a week?
Maybe one day I'll get to drive my Giulietta Spider from Positano to Amalfi :)
One can but dream ...
Chris
There are two cars I'd sell my GTV for - a Giulietta Spider, and a Montreal...
Would give my left nut for a Giulietta spider - they really are fantastic to drive. Utterly unfadeable drums (they squealed a bit when cold - which was all the time, except when I got a clean run on a mountainy bit - then they got up to temp, stopped squealing and were magnificent). Beautifully direct, communicative steering, willing, suprisingly torquey 1300, and it was amazing how much stuff you could load into it.
Suprisingly physical car to drive though - they feel an era older than a 105 behind the wheel - which is still lightyears ahead of anything else from the 60's and 70's i've driven.
Wow great drive choice! If I'm not mistaken the Two Greedy Italians used the same hire car for one their shows.
When I saw the gloves (BTW they were a necessity on the shinny slippery and sometimes hot steering wheels of the day) you reminded me of the guy in this Italian movie...the Giulietta, the gloves...the gestures??? haha... ;D
http://youtu.be/OREhw9sCdbw?t=4m6s
Spent 10 days in Praiano in September in 2013. Quieter town in between Positano and Amalfi (See photo). The villa had views of Capri when Positano was in the shadows. Every evening we would sit on our balcony watching the sun set over Capri drinking the local red.
We did not have a classic Alfa, but an Alfa it was (Giulietta TD 2.0). A bit big for the roads around there, but a good drive. We drove all the way from Nerano (Western tip of the Amalfi penninsula) to Salerno and up onto the plateau behind to Bomerano (couple of close shaves, but the only damage was some gutter rash from my left hand drive parking exploits).
It is spectacular drive (particularly the stretch going into Positano from the west), but far from relaxing... You will rarely exceed 60 km/h, and be regularly be passed by swarms of teens in singlets on Vespas: plus lots of other tourists crawling along.
What few people talk about is the absolutely spectacular walking in the hills behind. We walked up 600 m vertical to the plateau one day for the "Walk of the Gods". Awesome, apart from a close encounter with one dodgey dude that I think was the Amalfi "Man with Axe".
My fav memories of the drive are the short busses.. Flat out, lean on the horn before a blind corner and just keep going. The walks in the mountains were amazing as were the people - defo going back. Quite like Cinqueterre for walking too (no cars).
The town of Amalfi - from my 2007 trip to Italy.
Chris