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trabitom's historic Nürburgring pics

Posted: 14 Feb 2008 11:36 am
by trabitom99
While going through some old pictures last night, I stumbled across some photos taken when a mate & I drove around the Nürburgring in my wife's 343, sometime in the late Nineties, and chucked them on the scanner:

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Outta my way, Porsche!
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Coming up to "Brünnchen", note the angle of the missus' teddy bear mascot.
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All over the road he was, just before I passed him:
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BMW hire car desperately trying to out-break me. Didn't do him any good though.
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Volvo 343L parked amongst its rivals of the day:
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Er, not quite.

I do have the time at home, far too embarrassing to post ;-)

Unfortunately, the car didn't take it too well, it developed head gasket problems shortly after. MOT failure due to rust and play in the steering rack drove the final nail in its coffin :-(

Tom

Posted: 14 Feb 2008 11:48 am
by Chris_C
Haha, awesome pics! Cheers for sharing mate.

Posted: 14 Feb 2008 12:01 pm
by SteveP
Ace pics!! Loving the decals on that ol' 343 too.

Posted: 14 Feb 2008 01:02 pm
by hatch360
Great pics and a great thread title :)

Posted: 14 Feb 2008 01:37 pm
by MJ
Good to see a 300 on the ring!

Nice annotations as well ;)

Posted: 15 Feb 2008 09:51 am
by trabitom99
Thanks for the comments, chaps.
SteveP wrote:Ace pics!! Loving the decals on that ol' 343 too.
A 343 "Junior" special edition based on the 343L: side decals, tinted windows, intermittent wash/wipe and a great chunky steering wheel out of the accessories brochure which I wish I'd removed at the scrappy's :oops:

Tom