Do yourselves a favor and detour through Santa Cruz, over CA 9 down through Saratoga, then finish up by heading south on 101. It's a little bit longer, but the jaunt over CA 9 from Santa Cruz to Saratoga is worth it. If any of you want the others to scream like little girls, then I'll take you through at REASONABLE…
It wasn't a track per se but rather a heated points battle during a regular SCCA autox season. The guy in question normally drove a modded 1st gen rx7, and he had popped the motor at another event. Rather than lose valuable points he brought his only other eligible car to race which was a 1954 oldsmobile super 88,…
A 1776 or 1835 with bolt-on megasquirt fuel injection will give you more oomph and trouble free running for years. If you ever end up in NorCal I'll give you a ride in an 1800lb super beetle with 330whp that can turn as well as it accelerates.
If you're in the southwest corner of ID for whatever reason (I won't judge you), you can visit Craters of the Moon national park which is about an hour northwest of Blackfoot. It will be deathly hot, and it will look like nothing you've ever seen before. If NASA tests the rovers there why not the R8?
How about the dishevled stacks of a Shadow Can Am v8?
#4) The Cabbage Hill sign is an advisory sign that suggests your decent starting speed just after the weigh station at the top. After that sign is 6 miles of 6+% grade downhill with some tight corners thrown in for good measure. I've been on that stretch on highway more than 40 times and each time I saw a truck with…
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Obligatory race beetle post. Here's my 1303 race bug at an autox. Quick details: Posrche suspension/brakes, caged/lightened, wide sticky tires, 310hp/2050lbs wet with driver.
Flat black is cool and all, but with such a narrow profile on the nose, and to K.O.s to the wind, perhaps hello kitty livery would make it easier to spot?
Just had an autox weekend with my CARB killing combo. Filled my '00 Ford Excursion v10 tow rig with 31.1 gallons of regular @ $4.63/gal for $144, then put 10.1 gallons of 100 octane unleaded race gas @ 8.99/gal for $90.79 in my 2165cc turbo '73 super beetle. Nearly $235 into my weekend and I hadn't had any fun yet.
Having just done this myself, I'd have to say coast-to-coast USA road trip. Similar to this time lapse, I did south NJ to SF Bay Area CA and loved it. Nothing makes you appreciate home like seeing how crazy the rest of the country is. The lush greens of NJ, and PA, the lightly rolling hills of OH, IN, IL, and MO,…
I've driven on #7 and it is a brief but good analog for stelvio pass. This particular section is old white bird hill, and until Hwy 95 was built, this was the only way to get up the Idaho panhandle. A number of years ago when I was hillclimb racing in the northwest there were rumors that we were going to get a…
Can I get an honorable mention for this? This was one of the first start ups after my new race motor went in and before it got a muffler installed. Later, when I took it off the jack stands, the hot exhaust burned a hole in our asphalt driveway.
The beetle was the first working car to drive Antarctica. Nicknamed the red terror, it was a 1962 beetle from Australia.
How about GTFO? That's what the "g" really means. Honestly.
Being the 2nd most widely produced car in the world behind the golf, the beetle was the first car to reach every continent, and gained dozens of nicknames on the way. Bug, Beetle, Kever, Kafer, Vocho, Fusca, Peta, Poncho, Buba, Brouk, Boble, Kobe, Kupla, Kura, and the wikipedia list goes on. Nearly every country in…
I'd have to go with Dean Jones and Herbie, the 2 are nearly inseparable, Dean even took one of the original Herbie beetles home with him after the movie.
Not sure how they stack up but here's a couple local Bay Area favorites:
Slow, loud and uncomfortable... well 2 out of 3.