TOURING IN EUROPE 1975
WEDNESDAY 13/08/1975
BERCHTESGARTEN - INNSBRUCK
The first day’s Alpine driving. After a damp night, we got the tent down and set off. The first pass (Radstatt) looked hard, but the car climbed it with ease. We stopped at the top and bought some lunch. Then continued on to the Grossglockner Pass. The engine got a bit warmish on the way up, so we had to stop a couple of times while it cooled off. It was about then that Steve took up smoking again. On the way down, the brakes started to fade and I had to use the handbrake to stop us at a parking area. On getting down there was one more pass to do that day, the Gerlos, which took us to Mayerhofen and the Zillertal. By then it was getting late, and when we arrived at the campsite in Innsbruck, it had closed for the night. So we slept in the car at a lay-by on the Brenner motorway.
Stopping at the top of the Katschberg Pass to let the engine cool down. This was the 2nd pass of the day. The 2 hardest were yet to come.
The top of the Grossglockner Pass. Yes that stream of water underneath the car did come from the radiator overflow, and the puddle underneath the front of the car in the 2nd picture.
The first pass, the Radstadt.