Road trip Bilbao to Marbella in the Alfa 8c

[hilts uk]

Just returned from a week in Spain driving 1000 miles in the 8c spider. There were 26 others on the tour. Mixture of ferrrari, astons and Porsche mainly. No mazzers
The roads in northern Spain are incredible. No traffic or police and you can see for miles. A guy in a Nissan GTR claimed to do 160mph which I can believe given the speed he overtook. All cars made it to Marbella without any issues and no speeding tickets. The 8c was perfect (except the lack of boot space) although the back end did wag a lot towards the end as the roads seem to be slippy in the South. The highlight was lunch in a bull ring where we arranged the cars around the edge.
The 8c is also the best bug killer on the road...

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[Slowly]

Very nice - I was planning to photograph an unfortunate dragonfly immolated on the grille of the GS on our last N Spain trip, but when we had checked in to the hotel and I returned to the car it was clear that the birds are savvy to this variant of a BBQ and had picked all the nicest insects off - now I realise that they do the same in the UK.

 

[FF1078]

Great pictures

 

[2b1ask1]

Wow! Looks fantastic, cannot wait till it is our turn later in the year...

 

[philw696]

Wow nice trip and the pictures are Fantastic

 

[MrMickS]

Looks a great trip and great to see an 8c being used as opposed to sitting in air conditioned isolation.

 

[GeoffCapes]

I was in Northern Spain last year and can confirm the roads from Bilbao to Logroño are absolutely awesome.
Wide, fast with long sweeping corners.

Would love to drive them one day. Unfortunately I travelled them in a coach.......

 

[conaero]

Thanks Hilts if you can post up a map of your route with highlighted awesome bits I'll see if we can include some in the forums Viva Espana trip this Autumn.

 

[outrun]

That's a lovely lovely lovely car Hilts. Much respect.

 

[Andyk]

Great pictures ....and what a stunning car to do the trip in.

 

[StuartW]

Fantastic trip & thanks for sharing the photos - awesome!

 

[hilts uk]

Fantastic trip & thanks for sharing the photos - awesome!

Thanks guys I'll post some more pics and videos soon when I get some time. I'll also get the route map. It was 1000 miles over 5 days.

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[conaero]

Hilts would you say 200 miles a day was too much or about right?

 

[Dan!]

Nice trip. Who did you do it with out of interest?

 

[hilts uk]

Hilts would you say 200 miles a day was too much or about right?

It was about 5 hrs a day and I split the driving so it was fine but afternoons very hot with roof down.

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[hilts uk]

Nice trip. Who did you do it with out of interest?

Event was called Grand Tour organised by GTO events

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[hilts uk]

Thanks Hilts if you can post up a map of your route with highlighted awesome bits I'll see if we can include some in the forums Viva Espana trip this Autumn.

I asked but the organiser won't give me the route. We had sheets each day which were collected. It was like a treasure hunt where you had to visit places based on clues. Made it interesting

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[hilts uk]

Some nice cars. 918 spider was the best.

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[Caldy999]

Looks as if your trip was as much fun as mine - except it cost around £180,000 extra!

 

[hilts uk]

Looks as if your trip was as much fun as mine - except it cost around £180,000 extra!

Ah the money isnt spent ...... - its invested