NC500

mr2lad · June 20

Did the NC500 earlier this week, just got back this afternoon, car performed excellent, i only live 38miles away from the start of the route and have now done the complete route 3x now in a LS600hL SC430 and now with the RCF, ohh and 100 and 100s of part of routes of nc500 in a artic lorry over the years

Spunkmeyer · June 21

Lovely trip and photos, I did it in my RCF a couple of years ago and in my previous ISF a while earlier.

Jgtcracer · June 21

3 hours ago, Spunkmeyer said:

Lovely trip and photos, I did it in my RCF a couple of years ago and in my previous ISF a while earlier.

Having both done it in an RCF, how did you find it? Done it in the wife’s Range Rover and enjoyed the fact I could just dump it into a verge on narrow lanes etc….

Malc1 · June 21

Amazingly booootiful route to travel along and alongside and to venture up up and away all thru' beautiful Scotland

I've been around and about the route several times over the decades but in my asorted Ls400s from time to time .............. best in good weather tho', of course

Envy you .......... must make a Plan to go again sometime soon

Malc

Spunkmeyer · June 21

I drive more relaxed these days but iirc this particular route in the RC with an F type and a strangers 6 series was more than spirited and the whole time was a memory I’ll never forget (second trip was based in Dornoch for the interior roads), the pic is of course Kylesku

mr2lad · June 21

Way cheaper on fuel than i intially anticipated (was full prior to leaving and filled up just prior to driving the last 4 miles home) and fuel receipts totalled 126.22 and averaged 29.7 mpg over 3 days, first 2 days i was a full on tourist so ambled around (no rush plus was the 1st time my missus had been on the NC500) also booked hotels for later on in the day so had a whole day to see the sights….. 3rd n final day started as easy gentle relaxed drive until we did our last touristy visit to Dunrobin castle, was then given permission of her to drive home like id stole it, so once i left the castle grounds and got onto A9 again, sports settings and exhaust settings (Armytrix valvetronic system) changed to zoom and LOUD and whoosh i was off, 😂 easily would of made pole position in a F1 race 😉😂

i did have 2 hiccups on 1st day

first being a malfunction on a remote 12v Battery isolater i had fitted 3mths back…. Id parked up and went for a walk and on return wouldn’t let me open car remotely as isolater had switched Battery off and wouldn’t let me switch Battery on again…. Eventually got socket set out and took off the isolater and car started and was fine…

2nd incident was just as i was pulling into 1st hotels car park i hit a rock and damaged my splitter…. Was fuming with myself then quickly got over it as ive never liked the front splitter id put on, so good reason know to change it lol, every cloud and all that guff i suppose…. Glad i had the splitter on tho or i would of carried on a bit further and it would of been my bumper that took the impact but as i hit the rock i heard the splitter crack so stopped…..

but regardless of them very minor issues and not the actual cars fault, the whole trip was PRICELESS,