If you want a trip over steep hills and sceenic views will this do? You start off at Hard Knott Pass In Eskdale and carry on over Wrynose Pass. Went over it many years ago and it was thrilling to the exstent you may have to go up some of the pass in reverse :cry: [ATTACH]6186[/Attach] [ATTACH]6187[/Attach] [ATTACH]6188[/Attach] [ATTACH]6189[/Attach] [ATTACH]6190[/Attach] [ATTACH]6191[/Attach]
Posted by: AW - 22 July 2011 20:24:36
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Posted by: pre67vw - 22 July 2011 21:45:15
Yeah, kind of needs some old VWs to make it interesting...
Posted by: 64rotbox - 22 July 2011 22:54:02
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Posted by: pre67vw - 22 July 2011 23:36:39
:rofl:
:thumbup:
Posted by: RoRoVw - 23 July 2011 19:56:07
[quote=pre67vw]Yeah, kind of needs some old VWs to make it interesting...[/quote]
And here it is!
Taken in 2006 on a trip over Hardknott Pass in this 1966 1300 beetle Three adults and a dog and no problems. The funny thing was that when we arrived at the summit there was a 1302S parked at the side of the road admiring the view! [ATTACH]6199[/Attach]
Posted by: AW - 23 July 2011 21:35:52
[quote=RoRoVw]And here it is!
Taken in 2006 on a trip over Hardknott Pass in this 1966 1300 beetle Three adults and a dog and no problems. The funny thing was that when we arrived at the summit there was a 1302S parked at the side of the road admiring the view![/quote]
So what about a weekend touring the back roads? Just think a Pre-67 run a chance for people to meet up and take in the scenary. Andy
Posted by: Rich Oakley - 23 July 2011 23:25:25
[quote=AW]So what about a weekend touring the back roads? Just think a Pre-67 run a chance for people to meet up and take in the scenary. Andy[/quote]
Join the Historic VWOC and participate in the Dales Dawdle next year.
Posted by: AW - 24 July 2011 00:03:20
[quote=Rich Oakley]Join the Historic VWOC and participate in the Dales Dawdle next year.[/quote]
Will you be at Tatton Park? Could have a chin wag about it :d Andy
Posted by: Chris - 24 July 2011 00:10:33
Been up it a number of times on a push bike and bugger me it was a killer :(
Posted by: Mike Peckham - 24 July 2011 00:35:13
Have got lots of great memories of Hard Knot and Wrynose passes. My earliest VW memory would be going over them in my parents 1961 Canterbury Pitt Camper Van (reg 4771R) in the late 70s, it had a 1200 engine and did the whole ascent in first gear, it was slow but got there with no problem. I can remember people in various water cooled cars collecting water form the roadside springs for their engines which had over heated.
In the early eighties I took a series of photographs of my parents 1970 Danbury on the ascent and submitted them to VW Motoring hoping to get a front cover shot but never did...
I drove over it for the first time myself in about 1981 in my 1955 Oval (reg JFX 892) with the car packed full of camping equipment and various friends and partners.
I used to go camping and fell walking in the Lake District during the winter months, the passes are often closed when there is frost and snow about but I used to go past the closed signs in the VW and over them with no trouble at all.
In about 1987 I had a brief love affair with an Austin Maxi and thinking that front wheel drive meant traction equal to that of rear engine rear wheel drive again ignored the "Road Closed" signs, I got as far as Wrynose but then became horribly stuck and started sliding sideways until the car came to a halt aagainst a large rock! Whilst waiting for the sun to rise and thaw the ice on the road a Land Rover with a couple of climbers came by and between us we used their picks to break the ice up on the road so that we could get on our way.
I then realised the merits of rear engine rear wheel drive when it comes to hill climbing!
On one occassion, in the early 80s, I was driving a friends 1971 Dormobile D4 down Hard Knot full of friends and camping equipment and pushed the brakes to stop and let a car on the ascent by (unwritten rule of the road: always give way to the car on the ascent), despite standing on the brake pedal with both feet and pulling up on the steering wheel the van did nothing but slow down a bit, stopping was out of the question. The car on the ascent gave way to me (obviously they had't heard about the unwritten rule) which was just as well as otherwise I would have driven straight into the front of them and pushed them all the way back down the hill!
Mike.
Posted by: AW - 24 July 2011 18:03:48
Wow Mike Fun and games :rofl: Do you have the photos now so we can have a look !!!!
Andy
Posted by: Rich Oakley - 24 July 2011 23:23:19
[quote=AW]Will you be at Tatton Park? Could have a chin wag about it :d Andy[/quote]
Sorry Andy, I rarely venture much further north than Surrey.
Posted by: RoRoVw - 25 July 2011 09:10:21
[quote=AW]Will you be at Tatton Park? Could have a chin wag about it :d Andy[/quote]
The Historic Club's 'Pennine Potter' is on Sunday 18th September. (When I sort out a route!)
Posted by: pre67vw - 25 July 2011 10:10:57
[quote=Rich Oakley]Sorry Andy, I rarely venture much further north than Surrey.[/quote]
that's not true, I've seen you at Slough a few times.
