Post by veeruk on Jun 2, 2008 11:50:51 GMT
Well, I took Little Belter (33) to visit my sister this weekend. I live in Luton and she lives in Rotherham. It's about 125 miles or 2 hours in the Peugeot. We left on Friday at 2 pm. Junction 15 on the M1 seemed to develop a traffic jam so we came off. Towards Kettering on the A43 then on the A14 towards the M1/M6 junction. Another traffic jam getting on the M1. We are now back on the M1 and everything goes ok till we hit junction 23a. It took us about an hour to get through that one. In a normal car I would now get worried about engine overheating. But with the air cooled 750 cc engine I knew she would be fine. She behaved very well. We cleared that traffic jam only to sit in another one 10 miles up the road for another hour. Once we cleared that one it was all the way free till junction 33. She cruised at about 70 m.p.h. and used 33 miles to the gallon. I'm sure she can do better as the 4 jams didn't help.
We met my sister at Meadowhall and then took her home. She can still remember my dad's Daffodil in 1968 and she just laughed her head off.
Coming back yesterday, I was not looking forward to the trip at all as I was fed up sitting in traffic jams. It took me 6 hours to get to Rotherham and I was not in the mood to do another 6 hours back. I left it till 8.40 pm so traffic was hopefully less. I kept her at 65 m.p.h as she seemed happiest there. No problems at all. Clear road, no breakdown, noisy but we got there lol. We arrived at 11 pm. I am really proud of her and I did not feel nervous as you do with older cars as they could break down at any time.
We met my sister at Meadowhall and then took her home. She can still remember my dad's Daffodil in 1968 and she just laughed her head off.
Coming back yesterday, I was not looking forward to the trip at all as I was fed up sitting in traffic jams. It took me 6 hours to get to Rotherham and I was not in the mood to do another 6 hours back. I left it till 8.40 pm so traffic was hopefully less. I kept her at 65 m.p.h as she seemed happiest there. No problems at all. Clear road, no breakdown, noisy but we got there lol. We arrived at 11 pm. I am really proud of her and I did not feel nervous as you do with older cars as they could break down at any time.
