Post #201,090
3/29/05 11:57:51 AM
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One of the great pleasures . .
. . is taking a flatlander from Oklahoma or some such place for a brisk drive across the Angeles Crest. It's especially fun if you've got a macho one who tries not to show fear - at least for the first mile or two.
Of course, having once driven from the mouth of Big Tujunga Canyon to the Wrightwood ski resort in 55 minutes in an XK150 Jaguar exceeding 100mph several times on the Crest, I could probably have terrified just about anyone.
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Post #201,092
3/29/05 12:00:20 PM
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Either that or
They smile and wanna do it again!
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Post #201,101
3/29/05 12:16:01 PM
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Of course, my hero at the time . .
. . was a Belgian race car driver named Gendebien. One year he was competing in the Monte Carlo Ralley. The times for the portion through the Alps was set the day before the run. That night it rained, and then froze.
More than half the cars were disqualified for being late. No car made time. Gendebien was disqualified for being early. He did not have good timing information because his navigator spent the trip curled in a fetal position on the floor boards.
Public outcry eventually forced the race organizers to award him a substantial prize dispite the disqualification.
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Post #201,109
3/29/05 12:40:16 PM
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Oh... now that is amazing.
Can I borrow him as a Hero?
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Post #201,132
3/29/05 6:21:21 PM
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which road(s) is the "crest"? wannatry it some day
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Post #201,136
3/29/05 7:15:49 PM
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There used to be three entrances . .
. . Big Tujunga Canyon, Angeles Crest Hightway (clearly marked junction with the 210 Foothill Freeway in La Cañada/Flintridge) and San Grabriel Canyon from Azusa but that last one has been washed out for many years and too expensive to repair.
It climbs steeply up to the Mount Wilson road where the observatories are and continues on to Wrightwood in San Bernadeno county following the crests of the mountains pretty much all the way. Very up, down and twisty the whole way.
From the Mount Wilson observatory grounds (I used to know where there was a hole in the fence) you can look practically straight down on Pasadena, and there was a spot I used to go where you could see well over 1000 square miles of city lights.
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Post #201,144
3/29/05 7:55:36 PM
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noted, closest to tht description
was coming across from highway 5 to Monterey,looking at map quest is might have been the pacheco pass highway, was to small for a highway to my mind, winding, totally fogged and by the timeI got to the bottom the drums on my 1964 wildcat were glowing red and you could smell the tranny fluid cooking. A road I would have loved to try without 3 screaming women and some dodgy steering. A fiat spyder or a 70's citroen would be great.
thanx,
bill
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Post #201,184
3/30/05 1:57:50 AM
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Suicide Alley, the "Pacheco Pass" road.
..or one of a number of those. Notorious for lots of head-ons; often with trucks. Prolly worse with the new crop of cluless idiots in UAVs, playing out Tee Vee ads for their $40K truck, still wet-behind-ears / imagining invincibility came with the expen$ive ignition key.
Flying down that, in fog, and WITH PASSENGERS, just to feed the testosterone monkey? strikes me as fucking Stupid er somewhat unwise. No chauffer gig fer you. Yer lucky your (screaming ... intelligent) hostages didn't eliminate you on the first decent straight part, where they might grab the wheel.
(No local jury would have convicted them ;-)
'Course too, maybe ya gots Yeti genes -?- so a steering column through the chest wouldn't do it..
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Post #201,197
3/30/05 7:00:48 AM
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it wasnt a testosterone run, it was a short cut
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