Like the fabled Car-poon? :D

Just ran across this... I don't think it was posted here back in May...
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Jay Leno on Mulholland Drive

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Forgot to post this image of the "Tonight Show" host, Jay Leno, with his broken down 1963 Porsche on Mulholland Drive a couple of weeks ago. Was riding my bicycle with my bike club, The L.A. Wheelmen, when we came across Jay and his Porsche. He told me his fuel pump gave out.
Photo by Ted Soqui © 2010

LA Photo: Jay Leno on Mulholland Drive

This is where I saw the link: Jay Leno's Hundred-Year-Old Car Goes Up in Smoke - Yahoo! TV Blog

let's see....this brings back memories...the first time I saw a 993 was in Vevey Switzerland, and it was silver. It was December of 1993 and Uwe something (some Porsche exec) brought a silver 964 and a silver 993 to our campus to have a look at it. I fell in love instantly....

Mulholland Doughnuts again
 

Well not long after posting about someone having done doughnuts at Benedict Canyon/Mulholland and near the Fire Station, more appeared mysteriously in the same locations.

Nice big power slide towards Beverly Glen.
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Close up.
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Outrageous wig-wag up the street, very snake like.
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Another burn out in the same location as before, the old burn out is still barely visible just beyond.
Someone's having fun.
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I have a bit of a collection of license plates hanging up in my garage - old UK plates from previous cars i have owned, the old Italian plate of my wifes Fiat 500 and about 20 US / Canada plates.

I would really like to have a copy of the one Banning has on his silver 911 - think it says MLHLND ?

Does anyone know of somewhere that makes the plates, obviously it doesnt need to be street legal as it isnt going on a car, but i would like it to look as authentic as possible.

Thanks for any help.:D

Ok - some more Swiss mountain road pics - Albula Pass........http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1284375101.jpg
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More info on Coronado event
 

Race the Coronado Speed Festival Track with the Pros

SAN DIEGO, Sep. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/--If you love fast cars, the only thing better than watching them live speed around a challenging track that’s really a U.S. Navy airstrip is, of course, riding in one while it’s doing it. And the chance to win an opportunity to do just that can be yours but you have to act fast.

Coronado Speed Festival is giving away spots for two lucky winners to ride with racing industry legends Vic Edelbrock, Jr. and his daughter, Christi Edelbrock on Friday, September 24, 2010. Visit the San Diego Fleet Week Foundation’s newly redesigned website at www.fleetweeksandiego.organd click on Coronado Speed Festival Fleet Week San Diego 2010 for your chance to win. But act fast, offer expires September 22, 2010.

You won’t want to miss riding next to either of the Edelbrock competitors. Renowned racers of vintage automobiles, winners will slide into the shotgun seat of Vic’s 1963 Z06 Corvette or Christi’s 1966 Shelby GT 350 for the ride of their lives.

To anyone who knows a thing or two about motorsports, the name Edelbrock is synonymous with automotive aftermarket performance parts. In 1938, Vic Edelbrock, Sr., a racer who was one of the founders of the American hot rod movement, established the Edelbrock Corporation, of which the junior Edelbrock is now CEO.

The Coronado Speed Festival is Fleet Week San Diego’s marquee event. Fast-paced, thrilling auto racing and exhibitions for car enthusiasts for all ages mark the widespread draw of this event. Staged at one of racings’ most distinctive locations – Naval Air Station North Island, the birthplace of Naval Aviation – it’s the only place to see live racing on an active U.S. Navy runway.

Interesting car history
 

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The latest Classified Ads from the Past is a rare all-aluminum 1955 Arnolt-Bristol offered for sale in the pages of Road & Track in 1972 for $6,000.

The story of the Arnolt-Bristol is a short lived, but incredibly wild venture. The man behind the beautiful Arnolt-Bristol cars started out as a mechanical engineer in the Midwest United States before the second World War. When the company he worked for in 1939 went under, Stanley Harold Arnolt purchased the patents for a small outboard marine engine for mere pennies, and in a few years transformed it into millions of dollars when the Navy needed such a motor for their small water craft during World War II. This was the beginning of an empire for S. H. Arnolt, also widely known as “Wacky” Arnolt, who post-war would branch out into dozens of companies, several of which were automotive-based.

Arnolt’s passion for sports cars began in 1949 when he purchased an MG T.C. He was so smitten with the little British roadster that he went to his bankers and borrowed a million dollars to establish S.H. Arnolt, Inc. at 153 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois, with the money going to procuring 1000 Morris Minors for his newly-established Chicago dealership. Wacky, however, was still not content with the fact that he virtually exploded onto the auto scene as a prime time player practically overnight. Arnolt set his sights on becoming an auto manufacturer, and after a visit to the Turin Auto Show in 1952, he walked away owning a large portion of Nuccio Bertone’s company that was showing off two MG chassis with hand-crafted Bertone bodywork. Bertone was going broke, and Arnolt was more than glad to assist the small Italian coach builder to return to operating in the black.

With Bertone in his pocket, Wacky went to England and visited Bristol Cars. At the time, he had his eye on the 404, a sleek coupe built on a 96-inch wheelbase. Bristol was using the pushrod 2-liter six of BMW origin that the English company won the rights to as part of war reparations. These engines, complete with four-speed gear boxes, were mounted to the chassis and shipped to Bertone’s factory in Italy for body fitting.

Bertone delivered by crafting a fluid-like form in steel with aluminum hood and deck lid. Lacking any embellishments, the body of the Arnolt-Bristol gives one the sense that the vehicle is traveling at high speed, even when sitting stationary. The Bristol engine was rated at 130HP, and gave the 1800lb car the ability to reach 60 mph in just over 8 seconds, quite sporting in its day. The aluminum-bodied cars, of which five were produced, were used primarily for racing efforts, with three cars being retained by the Arnolt factory and campaigned at Sebring, achieving a 1-2-4 finish in the two-liter class in 1955 and 1956.

Arnolt’s passion for building and racing sports cars ran out in 1957, when late in the 12 Hours Race at Sebring, Bob Golditch was killed when the Arnolt-Bristol he was co-driving with S.H. Arnolt braked too late going into a corner and flipped over. The loss of his teammate, and the fact that none of the cars sold up to that point made a profit, caused Wacky to begin to back away from the Arnolt-Bristol venture. In 1960, Wacky gave Walt Inai and Juan Lopez permission to take two cars to Sebring. Drivers Max Goldman and Ralph Durbin won the two-liter class, and campaigned in a total of nine races that year, with six first place finishes.

Out of the 142 Arnolt-Bristols produced, twelve were lost in a fire, and the remaining 130 were sold between 1954 and 1963, with Arnolt losing money on each sale. Five of the cars were bodied in aluminum, and two were constructed as coupes. Today, nearly 90 of the original 130 cars have been accounted for and continue to cause a stir at Concours events and vintage race meetings the world over. The history of this truly global sports car speaks for itself in terms of performance, and with the car featured in the ad from Road & Track’s May 1972 issue being one of the five aluminum-bodied cars, a little rarity will never hurt resale value either.

[Source: Road and Track]

Recommended to me by a regular on this thread. Aluminum, not plastic. He runs them on his car and hasn't had any problems (that I know of).

Custom Front License Plates, Personalized Vanity Auto Plate -LICENSEPLATES.TV

+1

Good quality, look authentic.

Speedster
 

Harry Hamlin's Speedster was actually a modified Volkswagen Beetle based kit car wearing a replica body with flared fenders. A "Kit" Speedster was used primarily because 911RSR's are very rare, it would have been difficult and expensive to locate a real one for rent and the possibility of damaging the vehicle was too great

We lost track of where the Speedster went about 20 years ago. Last we heard it was in the back of a shop in the San Fernando Valley and not running.

Someone on this thread might know more. Please speak up if anyone knows anything more.

Another kind of Autocross
 

Jeff H. sent me this today and it's worth sharing. Thanks Jeff.
If we could do Autocross's like this Gymkhana routine, wow what fun! I'm there.

Check out the doughnuts, lol, a little hard on the tires...ha, ha, ha!
Awesome good time.


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Ken Block is the **** !

Free at last...
 

Update:
Driveway complete, Carrera can be driven on Mulholland by next weekend.

Picture from yesterday.
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Jeff sent me this video this morning and it's quite entertaining.
Appears to be more dangerous than any Mulholland driving that you could ever experience.

Please don't try this on ANY street.

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Important news!
The area that is undeveloped at Mulholland and Laurel Canyon is up for grabs and is being fought over by developers and the Santa Monica Conservancy.

See below:


Dear All Concerned -- Last Monday the owner of the six Laurel Canyon and Mulholland lots informed us that he most likely will accept an offer from another developer as soon as Tuesday September 21st. He has not received any money since November and has waited over six months for a Koretz-LaBonge funding motion on the deal to come to City Council.


There are two ways to guarantee that will not happen. The City came through yesterday on one of those two tasks by releasing the Staff Report necessary to inject $750,000 into the deal
The second way is provide the seller $40,000 this Monday. Thanks in advance to the gracious contributors that have fattened the pot to over $5,000 via on line payments to MRCA (www.mrca.ca.gov). Our hope is that the seller extends the deadline until Wednesday and that a couple of big donors chip in. The hours-old release of the City report on the 17th is key to giving all donors assurance that the next phase of the deal will yield one lot guaranteed and more time. However, Monday is the only firm commitment we have received from the seller. We will offer what we have received.
The City's money will come from a Beverly Glen-Benedict Canyon surplus land sale between the MRCA and the City consisting of 77 lots at Beverly Glen and Mulholland for 1.5 million dollars.
[A City Council Vote on the $750,000 could be as early as Wed. the 22nd and as late as Wed. the 29th.]

Many Thanks too to Councilmember Paul Koretz and his staff for getting us this far!
This really appears to be the last chance to save this key
Hollywood Hills-Gateway to Laurel Canyon land.

I finished reading Chris Bannings book last night - a great read and a credit to him.

One funny comment from my 4 year old daughter.

"Daddy, what is your book about?"

"Erm, a road...."

"Why did someone write about a road?"

"because he used to drive his car on it"

she then scoots up next to me and spots there are pictures in the book(more interesting to her than just words)

"a silver Porsche, like yours!"

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Kids........

MRA Flyer from the early eighties
 

I thought you guys might enjoy this. I was cleaning out my den so I could strip out the acoustic ceiling. In between a couple of old LPs I found this flyer we created in the early 80s. We put these flyers on cars in the Laurel Hills area to toy with the homeowners association and the media who were accusing us of drag racing at the time. Good Timeshttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1286062241.jpg

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I just got this in my work e-mail from one of my coworkers:

"Hi Radu,

I saw you know Chris Banning and participate in the Pelican Parts RSR King of the Hill discussion group. When I was a teenager, I used to hang out on Mulholland and remember Chris’ Porsche up there late at night. Anyway, I was cleaning out my den to do some remodeling and I thought you might appreciate this old flyer from about 1982 that we put on cars around Mulholland. I submitted it to Chris’ board too, but it hasn’t been posted yet."

Well now it has.
Chris..Do you remember this?

What the Hell?! That's awesome.

I'd say $500 is good money in 1982 for hauling A$$ on Mull...

Ha! I'd say that's good money now since most of us do it for FREE. ;)