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Classic Ford Trip 2008 May 10 – 12th Classic Ford Magazine were back on board this year as we set off for the tenth Classic Ford Tour organised by Continental Car Tours. The trip, called the Dam Busters Tour, took us to Amsterdam in Holland. Lee and I left home just after 6am in his Mk1 Escort to meet up with Jon and Martin in Jon’s blue Mk1 Escort – the yellow one is in the middle of a heart transplant after the engine was damaged at the Nurburgring last year. Jon’s blue car is a standard 1300 automatic and it was about to go on its first journey of any length since Jon had owned the car. The trip to Dover was uneventful until we were passed by a cloud of smoke preceeded by a Mk1 Escort!! The rear oil seal in the gearbox had gone whilst they were on their journey to the ferry. We were all given plaques to fit to our cars whilst we were waiting to board the ferry. Once in Calais we had a 4 hour journey through France and Belgium into Holland to Haarlem and the hotel. The weather started the way it intended to carry on – HOT! Driving in a convoy with all the people rushing past in their modern cars leaves a certain degree of satisfaction when you get a thumbs up and you see their faces light up with a grin. Haarlem is a small town to the west of Amsterdam and very close to the race track at Zandvoort. It is only a 20 min train ride into Amsterdam. The hotel had no problems catering for the 79 cars worth of people who descended on it for a meal in the evening even though they could have used a larger car park! Some double parking was required but not when this photo was taken! On Sunday, after the headaches had cleared, there was a suggested tour which people could do visiting places like Volendam where people still wear the traditional Dutch costume and clogs and Edam to check out the cheese. We followed most of the route but then after “crossing the sea” from Enkhuizen to Lelystad we turned north instead of south. This sea crossing was a long road on reclaimed land and as we started on this section we drove through a wall of flies, which left the front of the car a different colour – it also gave us great difficulties seeing through the windscreen!! For Sunday lunch we had a Chinese meal in a seaside town call Urk. Why Chinese - it was the only place that was open. We parked either side of 3 German registered Minis that were part of the Dutch Rally. The next “sea crossing” was even longer and had a service area in the middle of it. When we left here we had a little excursion – we set off down the cycle path in error! Oops! The problem was finding somewhere to turn round….. We also had a second encounter with a wall of flies. I had hoped to go to Zandvoort as I hadn’t been there since the Grand Prix in 1971 when Jackie Ickx and Pedro Rodriguez drove away from everybody in the wet. The traffic jams near the circuit made the decision for us and we headed back to the hotel before catching the train into Amsterdam.
Amsterdam – well what can I say, it was much as I expected with the canals, historic buildings etc plus the seedier side of life. At least I can now say I have been there. Monday was a Bank Holiday in Holland but that didn’t affect us as we headed back south to Calais and home, a nice little 950 mile round trip to another part of Europe. There was an interesting collection of cars from Escorts, Capris, Corsairs and Anglias to Sierra Cosworths. Sadly one of the Sierras will not be coming back from the trip. They decided to visit the Nurburgring and had a big accident, fortunately without damage to themselves, but the car is very second hand. Submitted by Marc Lawrence of Hitchin, England
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