German Technical Museum and Nordshleife.

On the Autobahn picking up speed on the way to the German Technical Museumand the Nurburgring/Nordshleife.

194 kph on the way there and 206 kph on the way back. Loved it.

A little generator the size of my house!

First 'live' Fokker Triplane I have seen. Magic.

Grant wondering through the exhibits. Pretty special place.

Unusual colouring for this Rolls Royce, but suits me fine. It is Blue!

Interesting that the sign for this Lanz Bulldog tractor mentioned that it had a high top speed with power steering! It has a HUGE single cylinder motor with HUGE torque.

So now I have seen all three; Spitfire, Hurricane and ME105.

Nice little F-15.

Phantom of the Blue Angels USAF Aerobatic Team.

Scary looking three engined Fokker.

USA Moon Lander Replica. amazing technology for its time.

Quite spectacular Mercedes for the early 1930's.

Ramp on the massive Russian Antonov Transport Plane.

A litrle bit of an idea of its cargo bay length.

Looking a bit awkward and forlorn on dry land.

Grant and I in the drivers seats.

Hope they remember which one of these to turn when 2000m under the ocean.

This is where the pilot sits.

One of two little engines!

An idea of how big these two diesel engines are that drive a single propeller.

A magnificent sliced demonstration exhibit of a large John Deere tractor.

Had to take this Mustang in the parking lot!

Entrance ramp at the Nurburgring. Highly organized. Swipe your card to go through, follow a line of cones to a tight chicane, then 'voet in die hoek'/peddle to the metal and accelrate for all you are worth to the first corner. It is just magic. Do it!

Parking lot filling up with private cars about to hit the track. A number of Porsches, an Aston, a Ferrari, 2 Corvettes and what we never saw on the track; Ford GT and a Viper. Awww! Lots of BMW's and Golfs. Even 4 guys in a Jetta Station wagon with all their picnic gear in the back all waving as they went around. Lots of strategically placed cameramen behind the Armco. Not for me.

Would have liked to have had this Ford Focus ST ......

But drove this instead. Pocket Rocket race orepared. Had really smart handling, but I hit the left hand door twice when needing a fast change down! The 6-speed gearbox was also not what I am used to, so used 3/4/5 nearly all the way except on the long (short) straight. Hit the rev limiter three times!!! Oops! Top speed on the long (short) straight of 186 kph. Hit 140 kph on the parabola and Grant was with me and lost his stomach while trying to film it. Boy did the little car handle that amazingly. Just stuck in the bowl all the way around.

Watching from one of the vantage points. The track goes on to a really difficult climbing and tightening right hand curve off to the left of this picture. Many cars got it wrong. I did first time around, but waxed it the second time and faster. Smile! 

Same corner different cars. We even saw a tourist bus going around seriously ticking off a couple of drivers trying to get past. The most spectacular cars were a Fiat 500 abarth going at full chat, tyres clawing for all they were worth and a massive E-Series AMG Mercedea station wagon going full chat with stupendous sounding twin exhausts from the 6.3 litre V8 and tyres scrubbing as it took the bends. Pun intended! The journey comtinues.