La traversée de Paris 2014

Fantastique! Some great machinery inc that brilliant (DB?) Panhard.

Absolutely love this photo.

I participated last year, it was awesome. Unreal. At the place de la Concorde I just parked the Cortina on the street, just to go and have a look at a Ferrari 400i convertible and other things!

There are so many cars, about 600 officially but many more in reality, you can just stop along the way and chat.



To give you an idea of the coolness of the event, at 7:30am, here was a Lamborghini 400GT. I'm admiring it, the owner is inside the car, he sees that I love it and... revs the hell out of it!!

Later that morning I as chasing a TR2 in the streets of Montmartre, on wet cobblestones,and the Tina started drifting in front of some Japanese tourists, scary but stylish


They do this event twice a year, once in early January and once in late July. The Giulia should be ready for July!!

I don't know about the precise date yet, in 2013 it was on July 28th, I guess that makes it the last Sunday of July.

You can sign up, it costs €35, and you get a little plaque, or you can just join in the fun at the beginning of the convoy like I did, no plaque no nothing but hey it's not a closed road event

Just checked on their website (obvious really!) and the next Traversee is the 3 Aout (August), can I ask a favour please Clement? My French is very poor, (hangs head in shame!), so I may need some help in buying a ticket!

Not sure if tickets are on sale yet, Calendrier des sorties 2014 is located in a PDF under the heading Idees Sorties 2014. Lots of interesting events on the list and I love driving my Triumph in France.....!

Perhaps I should post a thread in the Event section? Maybe closer to the date, at the moment, I'm just marking dates on the calender. This, however, will be highlighted as a "not to be missed" event!

Clement

Just trying to work my way through the entry form, is "N° d’immatriculation" what I would call a MOT? And "Cie d’assurance" insurance details, "Police n°" the cars registration number?

Thanks
Andy

I'm going to look into this. I'll be at my parents house in Normandy then so already on holiday.
Might have to do it in the A40 unless miracles happen and we finish the 2cv!

Looks like we might be heading along to this as well in the Datsun ... not sure if we'll go official or just to Paris and jump on board.

A40 is def the car to have in this case!! Many 2CV's present, so unless yours has a nice engine swap it might be a little lost between all the others. Although it's still an unarguably cool car

I have no idea whether you can do things online or not, I'm afraid these folks aren't big with 'new technologies".

Depending on the outcome of the next few weeks, I might join either in the Giulia, or a Maserati 222. Things start up pretty early, from about 6:30am I'd say, but cars come and go up until 12:30 or so.