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Oh, it was. It was epic amounts of fun. So many stories and happy memories.
A huge monu-fucking-mental PITA to organise though. 30 cars, 50 people and a 7.5 tonne support truck over a 3 week tour, a secondary support van to take our camping gear to the Le Mans Classic race, at least 2 gpx-file planned routes for each day and route cards. One of the four orgnanisers dropped out halfway through the planning process due to stress-induced depression.
Still, the tour itself was awesome, though I say it myself. After I'd sorted out the mess resulting from the fact that the dickhead to whom we'd delegated booking the ferry from Portsmouth to Santander had only booked spaces for 28 cars and forgotten about the support truck...
Brommers
As you can see the chap behind is also driving in a cap, intercom headset and sunglasses. That's in a 260bhp Caterham. We did used to wear helmets for long motorway journeys, but that was more for noise attenuation than anything else. That car's pretty low geared - at 80mph on the French autoroute in top gear the engine's doing just over 9krpm, and the induction noise alone is pretty deafening.
Oh, and hailstorms. They weren't fun. Not fun at all.
And given that the cars we were driving with tended to be tuned rather rich for performance rather than economy, you could tell when you'd had a long day's driving...