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fir3vip3r
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7th Mar 13 at 17:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've got a holiday coming up soon and on one of the days I've got a 600 mile drive to do in a day, what's peoples records for driving in a 24 hour period? Any good top gear challenge esque stories?
gav93
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probably for me from kent to stratford upon avon- corsa b 1.2 8 valve , screaming its nuts all the way there and back didnt miss a beat!
Ben G
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i did 420 miles, stopping once for 10 minutes. quite proud of myself.

the trick is to do the drive when theres no rush hour as it's so much less tiring and more enjoyable.
DanCobb
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Hate driving long distance. Most I've done is about 4 hours and that killed me!
Gary
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7th Mar 13 at 17:24   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Fife and back.
Seany
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I drive between 200 and 500 every day for work. Did inverness to bath and back the next day however many miles that is.
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7th Mar 13 at 17:33   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Done Newquay and back in a day once, that was nothing short of SAVAGE. 520 miles in a day.
CORSA NUT
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Did Cornwall and back in a day with a 30 minute diversion as I got given the wrong address.

Was 13+ hours pretty much straight driving and I wouldn't like to do it again

EDIT: Just checked and I did about 750 miles

[Edited on 07-03-2013 by CORSA NUT]
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preston to silverstone is the furthest i've driven
Ian
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Liverpool - Shropshire - Cardiff - Barnstaple - Liverpool. That was over 600 I think

Doing Liverpool - Oxford - Buckingham - Crawley - Southend - Northampton tomorrow, should be another long one.

Aberdeen next week, that's 700 round trip but I'm probably going to stay over somewhere for that one.
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Going up north that way is easy Ian. Got to Glasgow in 3 1/2 hours from us and it's a great drive.
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Done Essex to Newquay and back, within around 26 hours.

Knackered as fook
Ben G
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what are you going to southend for?
CORSA NUT
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Guy I used to work with drove to Poland quite regularly in one go fuck that.
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890miles from the Alps to home via the Channel Tunnel, done it a few times thinking about it but most times we had two drivers except when we went in the Disco, then I drove the whole way

[Edited on 07-03-2013 by LiVe LeE]
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205 miles in a 1 litre rover metro diesel. Car was literally falling apart on the way back. Bits falling off etc. Wasnt mine and a lady wrote it off a month later.
Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by CORSA NUT
Going up north that way is easy Ian. Got to Glasgow in 3 1/2 hours from us and it's a great drive.


I'm towing so add 10-15%

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
what are you going to southend for?


Delivering some wood. Long story
scotty GTE
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Oban to Swansea and back in a oner. Must have been the best part of 800 miles. Way down the spirits were superb, on the way home not so much..
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About 200 miles.
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https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Stoke+Poges+SL24BY&daddr=Verchaix,+France&hl=en&sll=46.096303,6.67564&sspn=0.200222,0.308647&geocode=FU6TEgMdDBH3_yknZibec2V2SDEDHwhFRm0uPw%3BFa9fvwIduNxlACkfp84TJAKMRzE23Lq-EzlEgA&oq=sl24by&mra=ls&t=m&z=7

my house to my mates ski chalet in verchaix france in my hilux
got the ferry around 7am and got there at about 11pm uk time (got lost in paris for over an hour) says 670 miles but was more due to getting lost

also did it the year before in a bus we bought specifically for the trip, that took about 22 hours

[Edited on 07-03-2013 by Tomnova16]

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I done Northampton to scotland in a day. Left at 3am to miss the traffic and got home at about 4pm. Not sure on milage but i know we only stopped to swap driver on the way, but on the way home was different as we was picking a car up and had to drive home alone for about 5 and a half hours. Took some walky talkys so we could chat for free.lol
AndyCorsaSport
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Leeds to Perranporth. Bout 375 ish. On about half a tank.
John
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Glasgow to Swanwick which is apparently 430 miles.
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Glasgow to Amsterdam and got the train from Folkestone so up through France,Belgium then into holland that was about 650

[Edited on 07-03-2013 by custom_corsa]
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glasgow to london in a 1.25 fiesta

attached a tow rope and towed an astra gsi back to glasgow, didnt get stopped once lol

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