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Night Drives #880360
11/08/2009 16:38
11/08/2009 16:38
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Did anyone ever do one of these - remember last year, it was a VW advert, but the basic idea was that you get up at something like 4am and go out for a couple of hours for a drive through your favourite scenery whilst there's nobody about and the sun is coming up.

I always vowed that I'd do this when I got the Coupe back but didn't quite make it last year. Thinking about this weekend now as an option!





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Re: Night Drives [Re: Cappo] #880363
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I dropped some friends off at Gatwick at 4am, does that count?!?

Re: Night Drives [Re: JimO] #880365
11/08/2009 16:40
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Pics?

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Re: Night Drives [Re: Cappo] #880410
11/08/2009 18:27
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Yes, I have been on convoy night drives. Great fun. Did one overnight via eurotunnel to Paris and back. Drove for nearly 24 hours all together and wasn't tired at all!
There are some 'members only' tunnel runs if you search hard enough ;-)

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #880428
11/08/2009 19:00
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I have, but it was a drive that I had to do so it doesnt count in that sense, but it was still amazing. laugh

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #880433
11/08/2009 19:06
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Night Rider.

A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a vehicle, that you cannot resist.

Fiat Coupe.

An old car on a crusade to empty the wallets of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of motoring where you have to buy one more.


(play the Knight Rider theme in the background while you read this) laugh

Re: Night Drives [Re: JKD] #880441
11/08/2009 19:11
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Reading to Blackpool, pretty much all m-way but still nice when the roads are fairly clear.

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #880463
11/08/2009 19:41
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Did it once or twice on bikes, great fun having the roads almost to yourself - eventually got to Weston SuperMare at 6:00am - brekky on the beach, laze around for a few hours, quick ride on the sand at Brean then a hack back up to the Midlands, via the middle of Wales


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Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #880481
11/08/2009 20:04
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Here you go, this was the original website/advert:

http://www.night-driving.com/





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Re: Night Drives [Re: Cappo] #880517
11/08/2009 20:51
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Cappo, why don't you arrange a night drive?? I will be up for it and I'm sure loads more people will too!!

It's a brilliant idea!

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #880568
11/08/2009 21:50
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I love night drives. Theres just something about them. Me and my mate used to drive up past Alton Towers round all those creepy country lanes whilst he told me ghost stories.
It was actually scary lol.



Re: Night Drives [Re: Vinno] #880571
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You know what would be funny?

Have a big Fiat Coupe night drive meet, video it and add the Knight Rider soundtrack to it. biglaugh

Re: Night Drives [Re: JKD] #880577
11/08/2009 22:00
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My car wouldn't do very well in night rider, coming out of working into the car park last night when it was very dark and stormy the car was so bright and almost glowing you could see it a mile off! laugh


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Re: Night Drives [Re: MattyB] #880598
11/08/2009 22:08
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Originally Posted By: MattyB
My car wouldn't do very well in night rider, coming out of working into the car park last night when it was very dark and stormy the car was so bright and almost glowing you could see it a mile off! laugh


at least safety isn't an issue

Re: Night Drives [Re: JKD] #880651
11/08/2009 22:51
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Done and done, early mornings at 3:30 am are the best. When i'm up that early and see the sun rise on a summers clear morning...I wander why I don't do it too often....Then I fall asleep in a motorway service station at 6pm and remember

Re: Night Drives [Re: samsite999] #881769
12/08/2009 08:48
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I like to drive through central london/docklands at night or head down the A3 to the coast, always with my wife though.

Doesnt matter what car it is, its always a nice experience.

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #881775
12/08/2009 09:09
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Originally Posted By: Marco20valveT
Cappo, why don't you arrange a night drive?? I will be up for it and I'm sure loads more people will too!!

It's a brilliant idea!


Marco - on the one hand, yes, it would be a great idea, but...... (you knew there would be a "but" didn't you!):

2 things. Firstly, I suspect that a line of cars travelling around at 3-4am, even if they were heeding all limits, etc, would inevitably attract the attention of the BiB, possibly even more so for a one-marque line of cars. Secondly, I somehow think that <misty-eyed old daydreamer mode> this is the sort of thing possibly best done on your own, where you can bimble along, watching the scenery change, thinking all sorts of thoughts, and stop whenever you feel like it* </misty-eyed old daydreamer mode> - you know?

I have mentioned it to a few mates but now I'm thinking I'd rather do it alone? Alternatively, set a few waypoints and set off at small intervals, take your own route, and meet every hour or so?

* - ok, that counded like a load of old cack but hopefully explained what I mean!!





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Re: Night Drives [Re: Cappo] #881781
12/08/2009 09:16
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People would just end up racing each other and that would defeat the object of it.

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #881801
12/08/2009 10:04
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Quite. I do my own whenever I come back from Skye - start at six a.m. or so and usually four hours and a couple of hundred miles of empty mountains and moorlands.


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Re: Night Drives [Re: barnacle] #881853
12/08/2009 11:03
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Didn't Kenno do this last year and parked outside Big Ben and took a couple of photo's? I've done a 3am drive when the girlfriends store alarm went off. From Guildford to Dorking we only saw 1 car and that was the BiB going the other way. What normally takes a 25 - 30 min drive to get there, took us 15 mins laugh


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Re: Night Drives [Re: Cappo] #881854
12/08/2009 11:03
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Originally Posted By: Cappo
Originally Posted By: Marco20valveT
Cappo, why don't you arrange a night drive?? I will be up for it and I'm sure loads more people will too!!

It's a brilliant idea!


Marco - on the one hand, yes, it would be a great idea, but...... (you knew there would be a "but" didn't you!):

2 things. Firstly, I suspect that a line of cars travelling around at 3-4am, even if they were heeding all limits, etc, would inevitably attract the attention of the BiB, possibly even more so for a one-marque line of cars. Secondly, I somehow think that <misty-eyed old daydreamer mode> this is the sort of thing possibly best done on your own, where you can bimble along, watching the scenery change, thinking all sorts of thoughts, and stop whenever you feel like it* </misty-eyed old daydreamer mode> - you know?

I have mentioned it to a few mates but now I'm thinking I'd rather do it alone? Alternatively, set a few waypoints and set off at small intervals, take your own route, and meet every hour or so?

* - ok, that counded like a load of old cack but hopefully explained what I mean!!


i know what you mean, it would generate FAR to much attenesion, create to much noise and could possibley cause a little crunch between a couple of coupes!

i havent been out on a night drive for a long time, im going to do it this weekend!
just me, few cans of red bull, some ciggys and a full tank!

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #881863
12/08/2009 11:14
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I love night drives, it usually means my bed is waiting for me at the other end laugh

3am finishes are to thank for my lucky experience crazy

I know what you mean though, i'd honestly rather be on my own on the journey home, but car sharing just takes the finished comfort i like, by my self.

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #884084
16/08/2009 21:32
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night drive in a fiat coupe, best get the carrots in then!!!!!!!

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #884097
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well, I'm looking at one of these tomorrow morning. 3am start again...yey...I must get that coupe ready for tomorrow!

Re: Night Drives [Re: Begbie] #884098
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Originally Posted By: Begbie
Didn't Kenno do this last year and parked outside Big Ben and took a couple of photo's? I've done a 3am drive when the girlfriends store alarm went off. From Guildford to Dorking we only saw 1 car and that was the BiB going the other way. What normally takes a 25 - 30 min drive to get there, took us 15 mins laugh


I remember that email. I am sure it involved buying a bagel as well.

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Re: Night Drives [Re: sugerbear] #884177
16/08/2009 23:53
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ahhh im reading this at midnight just browsing in bed im about to get up and go for a drive...... petrol station first i think.

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #884741
17/08/2009 23:22
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i love night drives. went out the first night i got the car and drove solidly till 5am the next morning!

i am thinking this weekend would be another good time to have a "night drive" hehe.

Re: Night Drives [Re: ] #884802
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I did it a few weekends ago in the Atom, on me tod.

I needed to get to Cadwell and was staying at a mates the night before, so I decided to drive up there early doors and then have a snooze later that day.

It was one of the best drives I've ever had. Almost surreal, at times. Nice to drive without a lid on for a change, too. Watching the sunrise, alone, makes it worthwhile.

Deffo do it on your own....

Cheers, Hedge

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Originally Posted By: sugerbear
Originally Posted By: Begbie
Didn't Kenno do this last year and parked outside Big Ben and took a couple of photo's? I've done a 3am drive when the girlfriends store alarm went off. From Guildford to Dorking we only saw 1 car and that was the BiB going the other way. What normally takes a 25 - 30 min drive to get there, took us 15 mins laugh


I remember that email. I am sure it involved buying a bagel as well.


Well remembered SB! The bagel shop at the top of brick lane is open 24hrs and their salt beef and mustard bagels are worth the drive.

Cappo, FWIW, I also think it's something that you do on your own. The feeling of being the only one on the roads is what's fun. Exploring the city, taking your time if you want, parking wherever you want.

I just pootled about from 3-5am seeing the sights (and of course having a bit of a play in the tooley street tunnels).

Do IT!


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