autohabit's Nürburgring trip 2012

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Opposite the museum is a large Porsche showroom

Two Carrera GT's for sale







A walk round the back of the showroom, and what should we stumble across, not often you'll see three Carrera GT's in one day! In fact, make that four, there was one in the museum - Another US registered car in Germany!

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Meanwhile, back at the track...

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Cars are exciting enough for me thanks

This bike has been in the news since my visit, by setting the fastest ever motorcycle BTG lap of the Nordschleife at 7min 10sec, Andy Carlile at the controls of this 2005 YZF-R1 using road legal tyres during a public session!

http://bridgetogantry.com/2/index.php/home/nurburgring-laptimes/427-fastest-motorcycle-lap-of-the-ring-really

A rare Spyker C8




Beautifully finished car




Sounded pretty good as well!

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Great pics. To me the rear of the cabin looks odd on the spyker.

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Every petrolheads favourite road!







A relatively new name in motoring







Artega GT, German built, uses mid-mounted VW sourced 3.6 litre V6 producing 300 hp

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Lots of muppets in town as usual...







Statler and Waldorf:
Is your hearing aid fixed?
No.
How do you know what I'm saying?
I don't.
Oh.

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ohhhh stop it now this is bordering on blatant porn. !

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Awesome pics - and proof Porsche drivers do have a GSOH !

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At Brunnchen we came across all sorts of things...

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Very nice RSR replica



However, this is as far as it got, turned away when it failed the noise test :-(




A trip to Nurburg castle




Great view up here!

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It wouldn't be the Nurburgring without buses, this is the latest from Scania!!







My now traditional Ring Taxi photo shot :-)




SLS

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The Hairy Bikers







Classic Japanese metal...




...and some nice modern metal

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Immaculate 911




This car managed to ruin my final evening of lapping, he crashed and then broke all the rules by carrying on driving, trailing fluid for the final part of the lap, a biker then came to grief, thankfully the rider was pretty much ok, but his bike was wrecked. This guy was actually out practicing for the 24 Hour race, I can report that he crashed out of the 24 Hours within the first hour, poetic justice.

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Our trip was at an end, but we had one last automotive visit before heading home.

We called in at Classic Remise Dusseldorf on the way back, this is an amazing classic car collection, the interesting thing is that this is actually a showroom, everything is for sale.




The showroom is set in an old railway roundhouse, this is a model of what it would have looked like back in the day.




This is the poor state of repair it had fallen into










Quite an amazing transformation!