Reports on trips seem to have dried up on here, but we have just come back from 4 days in north Yorkshire, so thought I would give some details.
We started out fresh from a 60K service and a new AOS, and part of this trip was to 'test' the cold start white smoke 'feature' of this car!
The Boxster shows it's true versatility always as a single pull along case dropped into the front, extra all-terrain shoes too, and coats and camera etc in the back, all kept warm by the engine and exhaust.
I now also have a spark plug top/coil in the boot after a friend had a bad experience in his 986 in deep Italy, 'be prepared' but we carry nothing else, just RAC membership and a mobile.
The plan was to visit a few well known places, Mathewson's Auction House close to Pickering (as on TV), Whitby for a Moby Dick and chips and the north Yorkshire steam train line (as on TV) as we love all things steam. Got to have an excuse even if some of those a weak ones!
It had been around 40 years since we went to the area in our yellow Capri 1600. It has changed...
Living in the West Midlands can be hard, ad it took 2.5 hours to break-free of the region by finally getting to the M1 well north of Derby, traffic traffic and then traffic.
Good news was the car had not smoked since the AOS install, and the car coped seamlessly with all the start stop etc in such labouring traffic.
We scooted up to the region in one blast, 34 mpg and cleared any log-jam of lorries and vans and middle-laners so effortlessly despite lots of rain, then sun then rain on and off for the whole trip.
Arrived at Mathewson's for a staged picture and a roam around the place for a charity donation of a £1 each. always strange to see faces you see on the TV in real life, they look much older!
Then off to the Pub where we were staying for 3 nights in a new group of rooms behind the old pub building in Levisen village which must be the sleepiest village ever.
This was a gem of a place, simple, relaxed and a chef who new what he was about, and all washed down with a choice of 3 local ales.
The road to the villageoff the main B road was something of a surprise, the arrows marked on the map denoting hill inclines were an understatement!
Sorry for the rushed picture, looks like we parked on the fence..
Next day was to travel the steam line, not all the way to Whitby, but to the engine sheds. The train left the station not far from the village, so a steep narrow road a mile long got us there in time. You normally pay the signal man for the tickets, but he was 'missing' so we paid on the train (cash only) and rumbled and rattled our way around. Why are the carriage windows always dirty?
Pictures can do the chat:
The engine house was great and really basic and looked so period, no tourist 'cosmetics' for this station!
Following day was for some soot-free air and off to the coast. All I will say is Whitby was a disappointment. Never seen so many Fish n Chip for Sale signs ever, but learnt about the regions black gem stones and the goths! Escaped that pdq and found some much nicer places to stare at the calm sea, in the sun, with a hot cup of tea. £4 to park mind.
Back to the Pub for another fab meal and beer.
Next day was to zig-zag our way back to Wolverhampton and went east from Pickering and into the Yorkshire Dales, so much nicer, rolling hills, green, traffic light/free and really good road surfaces.
The plan was to return without using the motorways. That proved impossible due to time, so we did about 2 hours on the M this and that and finally to Oulton Park and back home on our usual roads.
Most oddly, the run from the race circuit to Telford was lorry free, as in NO lorries! That has never happened before and we made really good time as a result, still can't get over that.
Filled up half way down with 95 RON Shell and the car felt no different to 97 ron.
With 528 miles covered, 34 mpg, and NO SMOKE on start-up or anywhere else I'm tempted to think the issue is now behind me.
The car is now sepia brown and not white, but it feels good to have a used dirty Boxster on the drive!
We started out fresh from a 60K service and a new AOS, and part of this trip was to 'test' the cold start white smoke 'feature' of this car!
The Boxster shows it's true versatility always as a single pull along case dropped into the front, extra all-terrain shoes too, and coats and camera etc in the back, all kept warm by the engine and exhaust.
I now also have a spark plug top/coil in the boot after a friend had a bad experience in his 986 in deep Italy, 'be prepared' but we carry nothing else, just RAC membership and a mobile.
The plan was to visit a few well known places, Mathewson's Auction House close to Pickering (as on TV), Whitby for a Moby Dick and chips and the north Yorkshire steam train line (as on TV) as we love all things steam. Got to have an excuse even if some of those a weak ones!
It had been around 40 years since we went to the area in our yellow Capri 1600. It has changed...
Living in the West Midlands can be hard, ad it took 2.5 hours to break-free of the region by finally getting to the M1 well north of Derby, traffic traffic and then traffic.
Good news was the car had not smoked since the AOS install, and the car coped seamlessly with all the start stop etc in such labouring traffic.
We scooted up to the region in one blast, 34 mpg and cleared any log-jam of lorries and vans and middle-laners so effortlessly despite lots of rain, then sun then rain on and off for the whole trip.
Arrived at Mathewson's for a staged picture and a roam around the place for a charity donation of a £1 each. always strange to see faces you see on the TV in real life, they look much older!
Then off to the Pub where we were staying for 3 nights in a new group of rooms behind the old pub building in Levisen village which must be the sleepiest village ever.
This was a gem of a place, simple, relaxed and a chef who new what he was about, and all washed down with a choice of 3 local ales.
The road to the villageoff the main B road was something of a surprise, the arrows marked on the map denoting hill inclines were an understatement!
Sorry for the rushed picture, looks like we parked on the fence..
Next day was to travel the steam line, not all the way to Whitby, but to the engine sheds. The train left the station not far from the village, so a steep narrow road a mile long got us there in time. You normally pay the signal man for the tickets, but he was 'missing' so we paid on the train (cash only) and rumbled and rattled our way around. Why are the carriage windows always dirty?
Pictures can do the chat:
The engine house was great and really basic and looked so period, no tourist 'cosmetics' for this station!
Following day was for some soot-free air and off to the coast. All I will say is Whitby was a disappointment. Never seen so many Fish n Chip for Sale signs ever, but learnt about the regions black gem stones and the goths! Escaped that pdq and found some much nicer places to stare at the calm sea, in the sun, with a hot cup of tea. £4 to park mind.
Back to the Pub for another fab meal and beer.
Next day was to zig-zag our way back to Wolverhampton and went east from Pickering and into the Yorkshire Dales, so much nicer, rolling hills, green, traffic light/free and really good road surfaces.
The plan was to return without using the motorways. That proved impossible due to time, so we did about 2 hours on the M this and that and finally to Oulton Park and back home on our usual roads.
Most oddly, the run from the race circuit to Telford was lorry free, as in NO lorries! That has never happened before and we made really good time as a result, still can't get over that.
Filled up half way down with 95 RON Shell and the car felt no different to 97 ron.
With 528 miles covered, 34 mpg, and NO SMOKE on start-up or anywhere else I'm tempted to think the issue is now behind me.
The car is now sepia brown and not white, but it feels good to have a used dirty Boxster on the drive!