Anyone fancy doing Staples Corner to Naples in 4 days in a car costing less than £100? I've already convinced myself I want to do it next year! More information here...

http://www.geocities.com/gonzygreg/Staples2Naples.html

and some discussion on the subject here...

http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15567

I'm sure it would be great fun if we could get a few teams together ideally in multiples of two's or three's to enter next years event!

Better put me down as a 'probably' for now

Same here, finances permitting.

I reckon I could be tempted to give it a whizz.

I've got just the car too! :wink:

Where's Staples Corner though? Sounds a bit foreign to me! :roll: :cheesy:

I'm up for it :)

Where's Staples Corner though? Sounds a bit foreign to me! :roll: :cheesy:

Bottom of the M1 - junction with the North Circular....

Would love to go as a co-driver if any one will have me.

Seems like we have enough people then. Surely one of these beasts could be a 99? Perhaps we could and represent all the models :cheesy:

The more cars the merrier...

Put me down as a probable as well! Type of lunacy I favour... :cheesy:

Edited (three times! - how can you make that many mistakes in one line?) for bad typing! Distracted by the Buzzard on my front lawn is my excuse! :roll:

We could also try and raise some money for charity, through some kind of sponsorship...

Surely one of these beasts could be a 99? Perhaps we could and represent all the models :cheesy:
Well mine was well under the hundred pound mark....hmmm, ponder.

Definately up for the challenge in 2004

Pete.

Hi. First time on the forum so be gentle with me. Very interested in staples to naples for next year. How do we register? Just sold the ideal 900 for £75.00 :cry:
Anyone fancy doing Staples Corner to Naples in 4 days in a car costing less than £100? I've already convinced myself I want to do it next year! More information here...

http://www.geocities.com/gonzygreg/Staples2Naples.html

and some discussion on the subject here...

http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15567

I'm sure it would be great fun if we could get a few teams together ideally in multiples of two's or three's to enter next years event!

Hi,

I am the organiser for Staples2Naples.

I've noticed your postings on Saab Central and hope you would be kind enough to post another message for me announcing Staples2Naples 2004. Its very strange, the 2003 event had 3 Saab 900s. Maybe a coincidence.

The new website isnt going live yet, but there is a mailing list available at its location which we are inviting (encouraging) people to join:

http://www.staples2naples.com

Regards,
Justin Clements

The West Country Massive are hatching a plan for this one :wink:

Watch this space 8)

Not something I can join in on, but if anyone needs any help with anything, let me know. Could probably scrape up a small donation too. Especially for anyone entering a 99 :wink:

We could also try and raise some money for charity, through some kind of sponsorship...

Will you have any way to take international donations?

I'm sure we could set up a Paypal account or something along those lines...

I'm sure we could set up a Paypal account or something along those lines...

You can count me in for a small donation if you do that.

Anyone else willing to make that commitment?

I would love to go on this but must be realistic and say I will not have time.

To help things along, here is my donation if anybody wants to give it a go and do it! I have a good running 900i on an F reg (89 I think) that is MOT tested to March 2004. It has a very wet drivers seat due to a broken drivers door window. (I have a window that can go with it). It needs a new fuel filter as the washers on each end leak. I have not had it running but previous owner assured me it was all OK.

This car is available FREE to anybody who will collect it from me and undertakes to do the Staples run in it. After that they can do what they like with it. (It also will create a bit of space :cheesy: )

Of course, a bit of a "sponsored by" and my company name would not go amiss :cheesy:

Any takers?

You've got mail! :cheesy:

Bl00dy hell, that was quick! :cheesy:

Looks like I have a potential space in my drive and the Sheffield Massive mob have an entry! :cheesy:

Mark, any luck with convincing the missus yet?
I've approached the subject and am currently pulling 3 to 1 odds! Also have a couple of guys who may be up for the trip, both saab drivers
Thanks TFatC for the donation
I hope this works out :)

Mark, any luck with convincing the missus yet?
I've approached the subject and am currently pulling 3 to 1 odds!

No worries! Mrs P is well trained (easily bribable)! :roll:

Also have a couple of guys who may be up for the trip, both saab drivers

From the PMs I've had, I reckon we could fill the car three times over already! :cheesy:

the fenboy three are going in the fenboy funcar 900, all sponsorship gratefully recieved, will let you know the charity to benefit asap.

Iggy

We are 4 Greek guys,in 2 teams ready to take part in S2N.... :D
I've subscribed to the mailing list,but no news so far.....are there really no news,or something is wrong with my acount???
Any of you guys got any e-mails from them?????? :roll:

I'm subscribed to the mailing list as well, but not received any e-mails yet.

May be they are still planing the event....who knows.... :roll:

More information is now available:

http://www.staples2naples.com

I'm sorry to announce that I have to pull out of this. :oops:

That means that the 900 that Nick (TFatC) very kindly offered is still up for grabs!

Anyone wanting to have a bash (but still without a car) should drop him a quick PM! :wink:

I'm sorry to announce that I have to pull out of this. :oops:
:( Could any other members of the Sheffield Massive S2N team take over?

How many teams do we have for this? Is it just the South West lot now?

How many teams do we have for this? Is it just the South West lot now?
Nestoaero was talking about putting a team together for this when we were in Belgium.

Which reminds me South West Boys, we have a slight technical hitch with our car: It looks like the starter motor has had it. I think we need to source another starter :cry:

Alanb

Are you sure it's the starter and not the solenoid sticking?

If you can push start it then you're still good to go :wink:

Ha, thanks for the helpful suggestion Heavt T.

Matthew, here are the symptoms: turn the key, sometimes a delay and then the starter turns very slowly (even when jumped).

Alanb

Hi

I have a starter from a 1984 t16 if it is any good to you?

David!

David,

That sounds like just the ticket! Wow, great and thank you. Can you bring it to Kodak?

Once we have the pads, CV (which I think Simon is donating) and the starter, we'll have a runner.

Alan

Im up for this, TFatC, is the car still available? Any other memebrs? wanting to join the team? I could come get a gearbox at the same time? Ola :wink:

Yep, car still available :cheesy:

Has not been started for a few months so would recommend a trailer, but there are plenty of spares lying around! I will be home for 10 days starting tonight if anybody wants it! :cheesy:

Hi all, managed to get in with only three places left, nice car too 8) :o 8) look out for #110 lol

http://www.hedaux.freeserve.co.uk/tommytoyota.jpg

Iggy

So. The race is on. Anyone here in?

We were in it and heres a picture of one the four Saabs that took part, unfortunately we were in a Corolla and yes we brought it back!!

Congrats for doing the run :)

thanks mate, it was great and if we hadnt lost one of the big ends on day 2 we could have really enjoyed ourselves only STP and really thick oil saved our rally lol

And I these japanese cars were supposed to be reliable! Should have taken a Saab :D

help

Soo.... Anyone up for next year? Can we get an Irish team together? Greenblood? Carlsson900? ? ? ? If we can get one for less than STG100...

I was there too!!!!!

Great fun thing to do!!!!!

I didn't do it with a saab but with an opel vectra/cavalier 1.6....still a gm product.... :D :D

I want to say kalimera to my corolla friends!!!!!!!! :wink: :D

That 9000 is sponsored by my local garage Bond Street Saab,

Who were the drivers? Anyone know?

The number plates got a lot of flys on it :wink: :cheesy:

I was there too!!!!!

Great fun thing to do!!!!!

I didn't do it with a saab but with an opel vectra/cavalier 1.6....still a gm product.... :D :D

I want to say kalimera to my corolla friends!!!!!!!! :wink: :D

Hi Nestor, its a small world eh? Claudio flew home from Naples on Monday night and I drove the Corolla home alone lol... I'm sure he started the rally with the opinion of 'what on earth am i doing here' but by day 4 he was talking about what car we should get for 2005!! Andy and Chris from car14 are now good friends and James and Chris from car56 (Citroen BX) will not be forgotten lol Stay in touch

regards Les

forgot to post this link to the pictures from 'Team Bobbins'

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/942136

look out the pictures of the Pagani Zonda at the coffe shop on top of Julianpass Absolutely stunning motor car (if you are a millionaire lol)

Les

Excellent! This belonged to a mate of mine (Jason), the fully Prodrived Volvo 240...not...



http://static.photobox.co.uk/public/images/77/62/13467762.s.jpg?ch=1&rr=00:56:08

No way thats a Subawho Impressive ! ! I saw that in Tirano with a chair cling filmed to the spoiler, I kid you not.. look closely you can see it has one cup and saucer on there already !!

OMG, that's awesome. Makes me wish I would've thought of that when I had a Volvo. Bolting a bench to the trunk.... The ultimate joke to the MaxPower kids, awesome.

I was there too!!!!!

Great fun thing to do!!!!!

I didn't do it with a saab but with an opel vectra/cavalier 1.6....still a gm product.... :D :D

I want to say kalimera to my corolla friends!!!!!!!! :wink: :D

Hi Nestor, its a small world eh? Claudio flew home from Naples on Monday night and I drove the Corolla home alone lol... I'm sure he started the rally with the opinion of 'what on earth am i doing here' but by day 4 he was talking about what car we should get for 2005!! Andy and Chris from car14 are now good friends and James and Chris from car56 (Citroen BX) will not be forgotten lol Stay in touch

regards Les

It's really a small world.... :wink:
Driving alone for all these kilometers must have been hard....we drove the vectra back and it took us 18 looooong hours.....and we were 2 drivers in the car....
Andy and Chris are very nice guys...as for the BX team,they were very brave to do something like S2N in that thing..... :D :D
I hope to be able to do it again next year.. :wink:

Regards
Nestor. :D

Hi Nestor, its a small world eh?
It's really a small world....

It's a VERY small world! :lol:

Les is the Redbull king (or is it black dog!). I would never have even attempted to drive back in one go if I'd been on my own! Apart from 3 hours sleep that we all had, and Chris driving his car a couple of times (when they were too busy talking for Les to sleep!), he did all that way on his own 8)

Still can't help grinning when I think of S2N - it's gonna be a loooooong time to wait for the next one!

The Saab 900's looked good - might think about one myself for next year. Mind you, I've found a couple of Skoda Felicia's for under £100 (rally car replica, anyone?), and there's always that Volvo 240 hearse I saw..... :wink:

Great meeting you guys.

Keep the faith,
Andy :)

http://static.photobox.co.uk/public/images/77/54/13467754.s.jpg?ch=1&rr=00:56:08

Hi Guys its a really small world init !! yes only 10 cans of red bull/dark dog to get home although the tiredness did wear off after that sleep on the ferry :o :o :o

These guys must have had some serious acid under the bonnet I think


http://images2.fotopic.net/?iid=yf6t00&outx=800&oq=0

CALYD - defo... there must be a few cars that can be resurrected and we'd have €150, a few ferry fares and we'd be away...I'd defo be on for this...

now 900 or 9000??? I know I'll buy your vert for 150 yoyos???

Welcome Andy!!!!! :D

You know what happened to me and my teamate(Fanis),after S2N????

I stoped looking at new cars on the road and I only look for the most siutable car for 2005 event..... :cheesy: :D :lol:

I remember some guy's face in a white rusty ford orion,when he realised that 2 other guys in a saab 9-3 ss,were admiring his car...... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Doctor....am I ok??????????? :lol: :lol: :lol:

the tiredness did wear off after that sleep on the ferry

Sleep on the ferry? Ohhhhh, you mean THIS sleep on the ferry?

http://www.midlandvw.com/CustomerFiles/images/DooDooDooDooDoooooInspectorGadget.jpg

:lol: :lol:

Hmmmm reminder: must get a new pair of takkies!!

How could i resist, another forum to desecrate !

Les, have just seen the article in one of your local papers that went to press in your absence (you were travelling home with us and Claudio had very nicely jetted his way back to old Blighty in the comfort of Easyjet !), excellent news for the Treetops kids with your charity donations. Well done guys (and say hello to our Italian speaking friend Claudio !).

Nestor, Fanis, was great to meet you guys, i think we're going to have as much fun looking for a car for you as we are looking for our own. Originally Andy and myself were in seperate teams. Due to issues with our own 'co-drivers' we ended up just fielding the one team but next year....... back to a team each. You thought we behaved a 'little crazy' when we were together, just wait until you see us in seperate cars. Those local BMW convertible drivers won't know what has hit them :)

Take care and for those of you who are thinking that this event could be a bit of fun, you have no idea how much fun, especially when you hook up with some of the otherlike-minded 'entrants'. Get your entries in early chaps :)

and breathe.............

Regards

Chris

Hi Cossie, welcome to our humble abode, although I think Saab's are the nutz , one must consider the fuel consumption on an event such as S2N, I am currently looking at Danger Scouse mobiles Fiat Tipo Turbo Diesel tuned to about 180bhp with competition pads returning about 50mpg, cheap as chips on Ebay y'know....

Les