What happened to the Mulholland "King of the Hill" RSR?

[Schumi]

I'm going to take a drive tomorrow out the west end I think if it's nice, up to that spot where the big satellite dishes are. I need some cool photos...

[TooTall]

Jeremy,

Very nice! Car looks terrific! But more important you managed to get TVL mentioned in the press! As the self-appointed official propaganda minister of TVL, I am pleased to announce you will be awarded a special accolade. Deep from the bowels of a secret high security storage facility (top shelf of my garage), I have, at great personal risk (there were spiders, and they were big!) recovered a most rare and important relic. The actual hand made silkscreen used to produce the almost legendary and highly storied TVL logo t-shirt. Some say the frame is made from the actual cherry tree felled by young George Washington, the staples are made from the frame of James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder, and the screen fabric comes from D.B. Cooper's parachute. Yes, this is the real deal! Authenticated by the same people who verify the histories of all of the cars at Barrett-Jackson. Our team of highly skilled artisans (me and my dog, if he's not sleeping) will hand stretch a fine garment (Hane's Beefy-T) and apply the specially selected inks sourced from the finest supplier (probably Aaron Brothers). A truly rare and unique artifact, not sold in stores!

Your life is now complete!




Kurt

[Jeremy Cottrell]

WOW!! Thank you Kurt. I am truly honored. You know, I still have Tony's original TVL patch which had been on the back of many jackets in it's history. In fact, my future wife will be applying it to a new one shortly.

TVL is coming back. Tony has already told me he plans on putting the hallowed white pin stripe taped design on the back window of his newly acquired 911.

[Banning]

Another aspect of Porsche racing we have barely covered...

YouTube - Mugello Paddock Girls 2008

[craigyirush]

Originally Posted by Banning

Another aspect of Porsche racing we have barely covered...

YouTube - Mugello Paddock Girls 2008

Barely covered about sums it up!

[Banning]

Since we have had some great power sliders highlighted here, this might be of interest also. I found it entertaining.

Drifting: Motorcycle vs. Car. [VIDEO]

[Banning]

Stopped by Kevin's shop yesterday to check if he would mind if I posted this. He said he hadn't seen it yet and would appreciate it.

[nize]

a friend showed me this flyover video and i thought of this thread. can anyone spot mulholland? YouTube - HD Twilight Landing At LAX (Cockpit View)

[Noah930]

Went for a hike today.

Where the road ends:


Legacy to the man after which this thread is named:


Our destination:


The view from the top--the Pacific in the distance:

[Noah930]

Stop!


Restricted Entry!


One for lfot:


Downtown LA in the distance:

[lfot]

Originally Posted by Noah930

One for lfot:

Nice shirt.

[shewhogriffin]

Originally Posted by CRE

I RAN INTO REX IN NOR. CAL. AT A RACE ABOUT 6 YEARS BACK.
DIDN'T KNOW HIS CONNECTION WITH SO. CAL OR MULHOLLAND AT THE TIME. TO BAD, WE WOULD HAVE HAD SOME LONG STORY SESSIONS! REX WAS RACING A GTP-LITE CAR IN SOME LOCAL REGIONAL TYPE ENDUROS. I THOUGHT THAT ODD BUT DIDN'T KNOW HIS BACKGROUND. COOL GUY. LAST HEAR HE WAS LIVING IN HAWAII.

I just had lunch with Rex yesterday. He seems to be doing fine however the only racing he has done around me lately is pretty slow for his speed. He has a gate company named North Coast Gates in N. Cal. We should have the web site running soon. It's under construction now. Whitehorn Web Design for Artists, Small Business, & Individuals

[Heel n Toe]

Seeing that pic of the reservoir reminded me of something I saw on TV last week... might have been on Modern Marvels.

There was a segment on the underground reservoir that is being put in up in the NW corner of Griffith Park... I was amazed... an underground reservoir is a totally foreign concept to me.

A KABC news segment I just found:

Reservoir construction frustrates residents | abc7.com

It's only relevant here because I think I remember reading here that most of the racing scenes in "King of the Mountain" were filmed in Griffith Park.

[Banning]

I'm sure most of us here loved the movie Bullit.
Great acting by Steve McQueen and Robert Vauhn. Robert V. was The Man From U.N.C.L.E. if you remember.

Perhaps the movie was an inspiration to go out and drive fast and reckless, it was for me and probably was for many. My mom had a new 66 Mustang Fastback that I learned to drive in...on Mulholland. We spent many weekend hours driving to Mulholland Highway and back with me at the wheel. It was a real thrill for a 12 year old. Thanks mom.


...so for old's time sake here is a reprint of a interesting article from Online about the movie.





San Francisco

At the very top of Taylor and Vallejo streets here on Sunday morning, I stopped to take in the view. Idling in a 2011 Ford Mustang V6, I looked down through the windshield at the impossibly steep hill below, immortalized in the 1968 film "Bullitt" starring Steve McQueen.

Seated next to me was Loren Janes, 79, McQueen's longtime stunt double and the last surviving member of the "Bullitt" car crew. Mr. Janes drove the green Mustang in the movie's most daring and riveting scenes—the one down Taylor Street and the other along Guadalupe Canyon Parkway. I even brought along a CD of the "Bullitt" soundtrack for the ride.

Two weeks after the death of "Bullitt" director Peter Yates, Mr. Janes and I set out to honor him by driving the movie's chase route—cautiously. "Peter wanted everything about the chase to feel risky and rough," said Mr. Janes, whose stuntman credits include more than 500 movies and 2,100 TV episodes. "Peter never got cold feet about any of the stunts that coordinator Carey Loftin lined up. He knew that a memorable film needed to be on the edge."

"Bullitt" still ranks high among car-chase enthusiasts. Several websites are devoted to information and trivia about the 10-minute chase sequence. Others have posted "then and now" images of chase locations. In fact, fans can even retrace the routes thanks to an online Google map that a fellow afficionado has marked up.

On YouTube, the "Bullitt" chase remains chilling. The green Mustang and black Dodge Charger tear through urban residential neighborhoods, bouncing off hills like Hot Wheels cars and banging into each other along the way. Yates raised the stakes even further by placing cameras in the cars, creating a new genre in which the viewer becomes a queasy passenger.

As Mr. Janes and I drove around the city, three myths were shattered. First, despite the hype, McQueen did not do his own driving in the movie's most dangerous scenes. "Steve was a great driver, but he was only behind the wheel for about 10% of what you see on screen," said Mr. Janes, who was McQueen's stunt double from 1959 to 1980. "He drove in scenes that required closeups—but not in the ones that could kill him. Steve always asked me first whether a stunt was too dangerous for him to take on."

The second revelation was that Mr. Janes was the stuntman who hurtled down Taylor Street in the Mustang and repeatedly sideswiped the Charger on the Guadalupe Canyon Parkway at 90 miles per hour. For years, Bud Ekins was assumed to have been that driver. "I was working on another film at the time, so Bud drove the early scenes before I arrived on the set," Mr. Janes said. "Many assumed he had driven them all, which wasn't the case."

And the third revelation? The chase's most breathtaking driving scenes are terrifying in real life, even for someone who grew up in 1970s muscle cars. As we began to descend Taylor Street's first sheer hill, Mr. Janes offered a warning: "Don't even try going down here the way I did. Our cars were heavily modified with racing shocks, special overinflated tires and skid bars on the underside. A factory car would come apart on impact if you sent it into the air here."

Point well taken. The pitched angle and approaching stop sign at Green Street forced me to inch down the hill's first leg at 15 mph. In the film, Mr. Janes hurtled down these hills at 60 mph in pursuit of the Charger, using each level intersection as an asphalt ski jump. "Traffic was cleared for us then," Mr. Janes noted. "We didn't have to worry about trucks and pedestrians—the way you do."

Fine, but how did he send the Mustang into the air? "I gunned the engine just as the back wheels leveled off at the cross streets," Mr. Janes said, not noticing that I had rolled gingerly through the stop sign to gain momentum.

As my rear wheels leveled off at the intersection, I hit the gas moderately. The Mustang surged forward, and I could feel the car trying to take flight where the flat surface ended abruptly and the hill resumed. "Feel it?" Mr. Janes asked coolly. "Any faster, though, and this car will take off, leaving the underside damaged when we come down."

At Union Street, the next intersection, I gunned the engine lightly again. This time the Mustang lifted a little more and settled back down harder. I asked Mr. Janes how he managed to avoid being tossed around in the cockpit like a marble. "When I left the hill, I pushed back into my seat using the wheel. That held me stable," he said.

In the movie, the Taylor Street sequence ends with the Charger hooking a hard left on Filbert Street and the Mustang following. As we near Filbert, I asked Mr. Janes how he made the turn while traveling so fast. "I started turning the wheel about three-quarters of the way down and fishtailed off to the right," he said. "Otherwise I would have overshot the turn or flipped."

Born in Sierra Madre, Calif,, Mr. Janes was a high-school calculus teacher when he was discovered by one of his students, whose father worked at MGM. The student knew Mr. Janes was a gymnast, former Marine and skilled swimmer. He suggested that Mr. Janes offer his skills for a 90-foot stunt dive off a cliff on Catalina Island for an Esther Williams film. Mr. Janes's stunt career was launched with that perfect dive in 1954.

In 1959, Mr. Janes met McQueen on the set of TV's "Wanted Dead or Alive." His first stunt as the actor's double required him to dive through a barn window, roll to his feet, vault over two horses, land on McQueen's animal and ride off. "It went flawlessly," Mr. Janes said. "From then on, Steve wanted me on all of his pictures."

After driving down Taylor Street, Mr. Janes and I toured the other chase locations. In the Mission section, we re-created McQueen's U-turn and zoom up York Street. Next came Potrero Hill, where the two cars tear down Kansas Street starting at 20th Street. I peeled out there.

We even drove out to Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, about 20 minutes from San Francisco. In the movie, Mr. Janes sideswiped the side of the Charger multiple times in an attempt to drive it off the road. "Bill Hickman, the great stuntman, drove the Charger," he said. "Bill and I spent a long time working out those bangs in advance."

When the filming of "Bullitt" ended, McQueen offered Mr. Janes one of the three tricked-out Mustangs used in the film. Mr. Janes passed, fearful he would always want to drive it too fast. "Besides, I already had this," he said, removing a 1964 Rolex Submariner from his wrist. On the back was an inscription: "To the best damn stuntman in the world. Steve."

[TooTall]

It appears the new documentary on Ayrton Senna will be playing at the Laemmle 5 in Encino for the next week. I'm going to try and make it, just don't know what day.

Kurt O.

[LateBrakeU2]

Originally Posted by TooTall

It appears the new documentary on Ayrton Senna will be playing at the Laemmle 5 in Encino for the next week. I'm going to try and make it, just don't know what day.

Kurt O.

Most definitely!
YouTube - Ayrton Senna - The Movie [International Trailer]

On an aside to the Bullit piece, here's another six degrees of Mulholland.
Bill Hickman(stuntman who wheeled the charger and played himself) was a plank owner in Cal Club back in the fifties. His backround in road racing paved a path to the studios where he had a very prolific career. On his way to an SCCA event in Salinas, he came upon a bad accident on old hwy 46. It was his friend and fellow racer James Dean, who was also en route to the event. Dean had recently purchased an RSK spyder fron Johnny Von Nuemann's competition motors,and had spent the previous week lapping on Mul learning the car. The story has it Dean give his last breath in Hickman's arms by the side of the road. It was shortly afterwards Phil Hill came upon the accident,another local lad intimate with Mul who would become america's first F1 champion half a dozen years later..

[Banning]

Photos from yesterday.

Three times heavy hail fell and blanketed the garden with white ice. Here it is just beginning to fall. The hills of Mulholland were covered.



Our 30 pound Maine Coon didn't know what to make of the hail at first. He later played in the ice and ate some of it. He is an eating machine.



After 30 minutes, it got thicker and stuck to the deck. Didn't melt for 2 hours. My wife thinks it was snow, lol.

Out of view just over the carport roof, is Mulholland and the Beverly Park entrance.

[maxwedge]

That is not a garden, it's a deathtrap...I'm somewhat surprised that your cat is not bleeding and full of holes.

Actually the garden looks really cool, I just can't figure out how you plant stuff without wearing a Kevlar suit?

[Heel n Toe]

It could also be sleet. What was the air temperature when it fell? If it was close to freezing, it was probably sleet... if it was higher and there were thunderclouds in the area, it was most likely hail.

[Banning]

This 1983 Lola is a custom one-off built using a widened Lola T70 Mk III body over a T165 chassis. Powered by a big block Chevrolet engine, Weber carburetors and a ZF transmission, this car traces its heritage back to the "Banzai Runners" days of Los Angeles where illegal, high-speed races took place on area highways; multiple winner at Concours in the 1980s



Founded in 1958, Lola (Lola Cars International Ltd) is one of the great names of race-car engineering. Based in Huntingdon, England, Lola Cars started by building small front-engine sports cars and branched out into Formula Junior cars before diversifying to be one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of racing cars in the world. Of all the great endurance racing sports coupés of the period, the beautifully proportioned Lola T70 MKII coupés, such as this handsomely presented example, are perhaps the most beautiful from every angle. Lola Cars Ltd, under its brilliant founder Eric Broadley, not only built some of the most attractive sports, GT and single seater racing cars that modern motor racing has ever seen, it also produced extremely competitive and well-engineered machines which earned broad custom and widespread acclaim not only in their home country of England, but also throughout the racing world: Europe, the USA, Australasia, Southern Africa and Japan alike.

Lola underscored all that is illicit about motor racing. Wildly alluring, Lola’s aesthetic can at times make one forget that each of these hand built machines is dedicated 110% to extreme motor-sport performance. Further still, the design philosophy reflects the company’s pure focus on the capabilities of the few pilots who were physically and mentally good enough to strap themselves into one of the most highly refined pieces of racing kit available during the period. It should also be noted that Lola in many ways celebrates a period of driver skill that did not rely on motherboards and computer safety nets. These are 100% analogue beasts that rely on extreme human endurance.





Lola was one of the top chassis suppliers in super-sports-car racing in the 1960s. After his small front-engine sports cars came various single-seaters including Formula Junior, Formula 3 and Formula 2 cars. Broadley designed a Lola coupé fitted with the Ford V8 engine. Ford took a keen interest in this and paid Broadley to put the company on hold for two years and merge his ideas with Roy Lunn’s work, giving rise to the now-famous and highly collectable Ford GT40. Broadley managed to release himself from this contract after a year and started developing his own cars again. He started off in sports cars with the Lola T70 which was used successfully all over the world from the World Endurance Championship to the CanAm series, until 1973. Lola (with rebodied Formula 5,000 cars) also dominated the CanAm sports-car series when it was revived in the late 1970s. Reaching cult status, the LA scene established the 200mph club which saw illegal racing on LA’s motorways; this car was clocked at 204mph! Each of the examples in the catalogue offer unique design provenance underscored by one thing – Super car performance. The final word should go to Road & Track, 1985:






“You don’t so much drive it. You experience it, for in spite of the fact that this particular automobile (Lola T165/T70) has been tamed for highway use, it continues to communicate its racing lineage most convincingly.”



info from webbs, 1983 Lola T165 / 70 Gullwing Cam Am | Webb's