Smart times 2006 Part 1

Pictures from the Trip to Smart times 2006, with thesmartclub.com. Pictures include Dover and our first tentative steps onto European roads !!!, and then the Big Climb to the top of GrossGlockner with 1500 other smart cars from all over Europe. Smarts from Greece, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Poland, France, Austria, and of course us !!!

MORE PHOTO’S BY CLICKING ON PART 2, ABOVE

Smart times 2006, Zell am See

Dover Castle

at Dover Castle

Looking out from Dover Castle

Dover Ferry Port ...

A Ferry, not the one we were on though ....

We’ve Landed ... and we are off !!!

All the smarts in a row ...

Confused a few of the locals ....

I could have caught up, Honest ...

Saltzburg ...

Saltzburg ... for dramatic effect, I was not drunk ...

Saltzburg ...

Smart times 2006 Opening Evening ...

Subtle lighting

Smart times 2006 Mountain Tour

From 10am more and more smarts arrived ...

Europe seems to have a few airbrush art smarts ...

thesmartclub group ...

and little Kylie, looking quite clean ..

Some more Air Brush Art ...

No caption required !!!

From the Front of the Line ....

3 were sponsoring the event ... as you will see !!

Erm ...

I like this, but don’t know why ....

More Air Brush ... This was really crisply drawn...

Gulf Smart ... but not the Original ..

Bodykit and paintwork ..

Matt Grey Roadster by BRABUS ...

The Fabled 210 PS Concept forfour BRABUS

Monobloc VI alloys on Matt Roadster

Blaupunkt forfour’s all kitted out

smart forfour Art Project

The General Lee ...

Who said you can’t lambo door a fortwo ??

the neurosmartclub from Italy

and look who’s here !!!

And here ...

BRABUS Ultimate 101

Many people seemed interested in the i-move ..

Panel wrap ?? for something or other ...

Rag Roll ?? looks good though

W66TOY, up the Front of the Line ...

Follow Me ... well, I did’nt know where I was going

I need one of these signs ...

Getting a better view of the long line ...

More and more people get in the line ..

the seem to go on forever ...

thesmartclub getting ready ...

Roadrunner and Coyote from Greece

Fire smart, won the crazy smart Competition

The Italians filled up the back of the runway

Everyone else then had to get on the grass !!!

You want Pink .... You got it !!!

A rather large caravan for a smart ...

thesmartclub, just realising that the map is ..

In German ...

no matter ... lets follow everyone else ...

Have they started yet ???

It’s on the map here ...

and we are off !!!

in a rather long tube ...

off to Grossglockner ..

and then we start to climb ...

and the weather closes in ...

but we keep going ..

Ah, refreshment ...

A few corners ...

if you look closely, you can see Alan’s Bratwurst

and on the top, it’s snowing .... in August ??

But the sun shines on smart times 2006

and we make our way to the Glacier ...

and around the corner comes ...

I still can’t figure out why we stopped here ...

Scenery ... not like home ..

and the Franz Joseph Glacier ..

which was freezing ... @ 1 oC

not the place for a fortwo cabrio ... Pah

A Marmott ... furry thing ... squeeked

Cable Car to the Glacier ..

and then we came back down the mountain

The famous label on my airbag ...

Through the tunnel at the top ...

and the sun comes out !!

More scenery. that you don’t get back in the UK ..

My Favourite Pic of the trip ...

Me being Arty again !!

Brit-tiny back after the Mountain Tour ..

The Rest made their way back ...

And MadDan’s Roadie found a soul mate ...