interesting fulvia threads on Dutch Forum

[Gamma as in me]

under a # of different, but similar names, I've recently posted a few comments on the Dutch forum in English. With the help of the 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 one 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 smile
Auteur: Gamma as in me (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Datum: 04-12-08 11:55

I agree about driving on the exciting roads around the N'berg Ring.
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 meter, 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 appointments"
It was icy, rainy & slippery ... in the 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, II drove up the same very-steep hill as & fast as my Gamma would go. I wasn't late !!!
That was fast for me & perhaps 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 P6 Pirelli tires & not winter-tires.... ooopppsss!

Afterwards, when I was returning in the direction of the Autobahn, I drove up & around 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 Autobahn & salt was spread on the road. My Gamma in Salt !!! Heavens forbid !!!

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

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

During this trip, I was warm & comfortable. I was happy too !
Happy I wasn't in my Fulvia ! Fulvias have a lot less "crunch-zone".
& happy that my valuable (to me) Fulvia wasn't in the ice & snow. I wouldn't sleep for weeks !