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Re: One Lap Around Great Britain

To: "Spitfire List" <spitfires@autox.team.net>, "R.D. Waid" <msp01091@isd.net>
Subject: Re: One Lap Around Great Britain
From: "Phil Johnson" <spitfire.man@virgin.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:13:25 -0000
Bob,

I did this in 1998 and are planning to do it again this year. It is called
the 'Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run'. Details can be found of it
on the web link below. If you need any more help or advice about the UK
event, don't hesitate to contact me.

==
Phil Johnson
Coventry UK
Club Triumph (UK) Spitfire/GT6 Secretary
http://www.club.triumph.org.uk/

66 Spitfire4 Mk2 FC73949
77 TR7 ACG15216
77 TR7 ACG10378A Ongoing Sprint Conversion

----- Original Message -----
From: R.D. Waid <msp01091@isd.net>
To: <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: 24 February 2000 01:12
Subject: One Lap Around Great Britain


>
> I've read in a couple places about a UK Triumph event involving a run
around the
> perimeter of Great Britain, accomplished in a weekend. There was a mention
of it
> on the list a few days ago but I've accidentally deleted it. I'm
interested in
> trying to lay out a US route, starting in the midwest, that would roughly
> duplicate the distances and directions of the UK event, like overlaying a
map of
> Great Britain over the upper Midwest and tracing the approximate route
(with
> adjustments). I would avoid freeways. Can a UK lister (or US geography
hound)
> provide me with the intercity distances of the major legs involved? Thanks
in
> Advance.
>
> Bob Waid
> St. Paul, MN (standing in for London? Edinburgh?)
> 71 Spitfire FK4081L
>


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