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Tmw, I am off for a 1K road trip (formerly Iron Bottom) heading to the gold country - only concern is that I have used up all my AAA credits - so hopefully Eliza will behave.

I followed George and Joe in their Roadsters around Watkins Glen, does that count? I was in a Nissan and rolled the windows down.

I was totally inspired by bikermike's recap of the Marin-Sonoma Concours events that I had to drive my roadster.
I followed Mike home and did a small loop this evening:

Went to Watkins Glen and cruised the back roads with Joe and was chased by Dave in his Xterra. Sorry you had to breathe the rich mixture from my solexes. Had a great weekend there. See you in September.

George H wrote:Went to Watkins Glen and cruised the back roads with Joe and was chased by Dave in his Xterra. Sorry you had to breathe the rich mixture from my solexes. Had a great weekend there. See you in September.

I got 3 extra MPG from the free hydrocarbons. Funny, tried to impress the guys with the 275~ HP and bake the tires out of one of the driveways. Damn traction control/VDC was on Still sounded nice running along with 2 Roadsters.

First, I drove from the coast to the middle of the state..

http://youtu.be/zg1E3A_p1nY

Then, I drove to gold country.. Fun times..

And I followed Mike and Eric(silver/black mini) in Eliza - just !! <G> with a good deal of effort on my part.
Mike was gracious enough to ensure that his rear was not pointing in my direction when he gunned his engine.

800+ miles (3-days) on mostly beautiful California roads - twisty and challenging - and the weather cooperated perfectly.

Visalia to LA with only 5 miles on the freeway…

Near Camp Nelson…


Great Western Divide HWY..


Seven Oaks market in Pine Flat..


Road 24S05 aka M10.. Between a couple run ins with the cow families..


Granite road, out of the trees..


Driving thru the oil fields north of Bakersfield..


Train doing donuts at Tehachapi loop..

Polly and I put on almost 2000 miles in two and a half days. Picked up Butch's 67.5 Saturday afternoon at the Branson MO airport. Drove the beautiful roads around the Ozarks for almost 350 miles. Can't say enough good things about that part of the country. My kind of driving roads. Early Sunday morning we headed out through Kansas. Crazy weather to say the least. At times so dark and so much rain we could not see the front of the hood let alone the road. I was afraid the hail would break the new OEM windshield or that someone would stop in front of me suddenly. Man the hail was loud, just like glass was breaking at times. Twice we were blown a half lane over. I swear I had no steering for a second. Don't think I was going fast enough to hydroplane. Made it to Denver that night. Relatively uneventful drive to Boise from Denver Monday. Looked everything over when we got home and no damage. Guess the hail was smaller than it looked or else the Datsun sheet metal and glass is super strong. Either way, good to be home.

Wow, that was a great way to bond with your new car! Glad you're home safe and sound with no damage!

Me? I drove the cylinder head of my car to my friends shop for a complete rebuild... That's about all of my car that is going anywhere fast right now... Sigh...

SteveD wrote:Polly and I put on almost 2000 miles in two and a half days. Picked up Butch's 67.5 Saturday afternoon at the Branson MO airport. Drove the beautiful roads around the Ozarks for almost 350 miles. Can't say enough good things about that part of the country. My kind of driving roads. Early Sunday morning we headed out through Kansas. Crazy weather to say the least. At times so dark and so much rain we could not see the front of the hood let alone the road. I was afraid the hail would break the new OEM windshield or that someone would stop in front of me suddenly. Man the hail was loud, just like glass was breaking at times. Twice we were blown a half lane over. I swear I had no steering for a second. Don't think I was going fast enough to hydroplane. Made it to Denver that night. Relatively uneventful drive to Boise from Denver Monday. Looked everything over when we got home and no damage. Guess the hail was smaller than it looked or else the Datsun sheet metal and glass is super strong. Either way, good to be home.

glad to hear you made it home safe. i bet you got some of that bad weather that tore through OK. no pictures from the trip?

DROVE to Quicksilver park on a cloudy day. Got a few raindrops!

I went on a fun run Mon with a local vintage car group, mostly MGs. The loosely organized event happens every holiday and they invite anyone. I was the only Datsun. All of the cars were very nice and so were the people. There were 2 older ladies in a early MG who looked like they were on their way to have tea somewhere. All were very friendly to me and asked if I enjoyed the run and invited me back. I went on some new roads and that was fun too (Santa Monica Mts) I think it would be a great route for one of our runs.
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A pic after I fishtailed thru the Big Turn to show them Datsun Roadsters aren't wimpy. (Joke)
On the way back, the King Gilette Ranch, on Mulholland Hwy, now a state park:
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The obligatory rockstorephotos.com pic will be forthcoming.

Linda

A few more links to pics from my Memorial Day run with the MG etc group:
Here is the start of the sequence of cars going up hill as shot by Paul:
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A nice sunbeam Tiger in Ferrari yellow, really liked this car:
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Me:
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Running together:
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Next run is July 4th I believe

Linda

Early Summer in the Seattle area. High 70's all week.
The 1500 has been resting from her Spring Touring
so got her some exercize on a 5 hr,160 mile drive today.
In the valleys of the Cascade foothills.

Ted