Gamma Ramblings

[Gamma as in me]

Author: Gamma as in me (---.dip.t-dialin.net) Date: 04-Dec-08

Under a # of different names, I've recently posted comments on the Fulvia Dutch forum, in English.

With the help of Babelfish Translation Program I've become quite proficient in understanding Dutch.
I even replied once in Dutch, I believe it was about 20 words.

I posted 1 comment this morning, while I should have been working....so I get to work later, tonight.

Here it is, if you care to read it: smile smiley face.

Auteur: Gamma as in me (---.dip.t-dialin.net) Datum: 04-12-08

I agree about previous comments about driving on the exciting roads around the N'berg Ring region.

They are so exciting to drive that I have often asked myself "why pay real money to drive on the Ring when driving on the roads close to the ring is almost free*?". ( *a factor for fuel must be considered).

Still, for you or for me (or any / many other "car-fanatics", from anywhere) to drive around the old N'berg -
1 time in a life time - would be a special-occasion.

I rode for a few hundred km, sorry...I mean a few hundred cm, in a big-tour bus many years ago, but that wasn't really a big-thrill.

Last Jan I was in that region on business, in my Gamma.
I should have been driving a company car with ABS; Airbags etc...but I decided to drive my Gamma.
My Office-Staff thought "he has finally lost the last few marbles he had left. It will break -down 250km away & he will miss the 1st appointment in NL & the 2d in BE & the 3d in the Eifel Hills of Germany".

It was a lovely dry trip up; then its was icy, rainy & slippery ... in the Eifel hills near the Ring.

I drove down these steep-hills & around the downhill corners very carefully.

So carefully in fact, that I missed a clearly indicated 179° turn into an Industry-Park ... I was concentrating on driving so much that I missed the sign & missed the turn.
After I reached the bottom of the steep-descent & turned around, I drove up the same very-steep hill as & fast as my Gamma would go. I wasn't late !!!

That was "fast" for me & perhaps even fast for a Gamma, but perhaps not very fast - in the end.

Still, I was in Gamma-Drivers heaven !

Of course the car was wearing modish / wide summer P6 Pirelli tires & not winter-tires.... ooopppsss!

Afterwards, when I was returning in the direction of A61, I drove up the same hills, but took a turn-off that went -over the top of & not around the top of- the steepest hills ...

I had decided that -by driving very-fast- I would get out of the "highlands" more quickly & down into the "flatlands" more quickly. The flatlands target was the A61 / Rhine Valley, south of Koblenz.

I wanted to escape the highlands as fast as possible, before the ice & snow hit the A61 & salt was on the road. My Gamma in Salt !!! Heavens forbid !!!

I got to the top "pronto" & tip-toed (not through the tulips) down the decent on the other side, at the speed of a fully loaded 70's Mercedes 200D Taxi. Safety first !!!

The Gamma performed as (only) a modern GT car could...which says a lot for 70's Lancia engineering !