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

[thumpgun]

I captured these from the David Cassidy Man Undercover episode "Running The Hills". My copy isn't perfect so neither are the photos. Not sure if any of these are actual shots from Mulholland or not. Someone may be able to verify. I hope everyone enjoys them.

[lfot]

Originally Posted by thumpgun

I captured these from the David Cassidy Man Undercover episode "Running The Hills". My copy isn't perfect so neither are the photos. Not sure if any of these are actual shots from Mulholland or not. Someone may be able to verify. I hope everyone enjoys them.

Here's the whole episode. Yes, this actually is the racecourse on Mulholland! That's surprising.

David Cassidy Man Under Cover: Running The Hill - Video Dailymotion

[thumpgun]

Awesome! Thanks for the clarification on that. I like that episode and it's way better than the CHiP's canyon racer episode "Return To Death's Door" which uses the opening scene from KOTM in shorter sequence. And the TJ Hooker episode "King Of The Hill" is almost the same story line as the Man Undercover episode.
It's obvious that real life canyon racing and KOTM was having an impact on culture and making news and tv show scripts. The latter two shows I mentioned appear to not actually be on Mulholland. But I'm not positive.
Happy New Year everyone!

[gostraight]

just popping in to say Hello.... glad to see this thread alive.
and share this:
Kei and I on La Rumorosa on crappy tires in 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l1hjiNBqyQ it gets better after 4:00 once out of traffic, gets even better @ about 6:15

and Kei and I on La Rumorosa in 2016 on NTO1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAIu0hAr0o

[TRE Cup]

https://www.carbuildindex.com/17862/vintage-video-footage-ferrari-250-gto-on-mulholland-drive/ << this is a treat. These guys had 250 GTOs in the early 70's and were just driving them around the streets , and canyons , of L.A. filming themselves

Saw the one with the roof marker lamps in Hollywood traffic one day, and just about wrenched my neck checking it out.
Got the chance to "race" against Chris Cord's GTO at the Old timers Race at Willow Springs ;-)

[lfot]

What I was up to in 2016...

[Jeff Hail]

Enjoy!

Change the picture quality to 720HD and play it in theater mode. The 4K format really shines there.

[Banning]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail

Enjoy!

Nicely done Jeff.

Here is another video worth seeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcHSlTOUL1A&feature=youtu.be

[manbridge 74]

Balls! Pretty much a one gear run without shifting it seems.

[Banning]

Originally Posted by manbridge 74

Balls! Pretty much a one gear run without shifting it seems.

Yes and...

Always remember...

PORSCHE...There is No Substitute!

Everything else is Sub-Standard!

[manbridge 74]

RIP Mr. Woit...

[Pipnorcali]

After reading this whole thread I dragged the wife n kids over to mulholland dr for a cruise on my way to San Diego cool road with great views but between the tour groups and the traffic I didn't get any spirited driving in I can only imagine what it was like back in the day....

All these post and stories and not one pic of crazy Charley

[lfot]

Originally Posted by manbridge 74

RIP Mr. Woit...

Wow... unmarked grave, huh? That's kinda sad, but strangely fitting.

[Zeke]

I led a group of of the regular 'enthusiasts' of the time (2005) including Jack Olsen to GMR after meeting in N. Azuza at a market. Due to road closures at the time, the route I prescribed was to travel up Hiway 39 to E. Fork Rd and over to GMR to run it southbound to meet Glendora Ridge Rd and on to Mt Baldy village. We got to MBV petty early and nothing was open AFA food or accommodations. IIRC, some of us that had drunk our share of coffee back in Azuza scattered about to find the backside of a tree.

Once relieved, we more or less disbanded and took Mt Baldy Rd. down off the mountain into Claremount where some really interesting eateries thrive to this day. Quite a nice outing but it's a long drive, so go easy on the coffee.

I haven't been on Pashnit.com California Motorcycle Roads - Pashnit Motorcycle Tours Maps, Passionate Scenic Rides Photos for a long time but I'm sure they have all the updates as to roads and conditions.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by lfot

Wow... unmarked grave, huh? That's kinda sad, but strangely fitting.

We should go leave some empty beer cans on the grave.

[lfot]

Originally Posted by Noah930

We should go leave some empty beer cans on the grave.

Or make a little headstone and properly mark it. Maybe use some fiberglass from a Corvette?

[lfot]

Hey all you ol' Mulhollanders... somebody went and made a short film about myself and my little 911SC Turbo.

[Jeff Hail]

August I, 1982

The RACERS: Mulholland.

The answer is the blockade. "It's kind of the way of the '80s, a way to solve the problem without incurring a great deal of expense to the taxpayer." A blockade would involve perhaps eight officers, said Zine, who would bar everyone but residents and their guests from those sections of Mulholland that are used for racing. The notion of blockading Mulholland may be new, but the Idea of racing there is not. Since the first section of the 59-mile highway, which stretches from Hollywood to Malibu, was opened in 1924, it has attracted a curious amalgam of romantics, sightseers and daredevils that has mixed about as well as suntan lotion and motor oil. The modern era of Mulholland racing began In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when an earlier King of the Mountain, a young mechanic named Charley Woit, began storming through the hills in pickup trucks and a 427 Corvette.

Through the years the racing jocks got together and formed groups-the Mulholland Racing Assn., Clandestine Racing Enterprises, Associated Canyon Racers that now are nothing but history. Some had business cards printed up as a joke. One card from an earlier era reads, "Mulholland International Raceway. Any night from dusk till dawn. This card admits one."

In recent years things have changed. The racing is less organized, and the racers have been joined by a rowdier, younger crowd of adolescent boys and girls who congregate at the Grandstand to smoke pot, drop speed, or what passes for it, and listen to loud rock 'n' roll blaring from expensive car stereos. From time to time, police said, the crowd has been known to throw a beer bottle or two at passing cars. The kids are drawn to Mulholland by the promise of action, by glamorized accounts of mountaintop racing that they've seen on television programs such as "Eye on L.A." which promoted its program with an advertisement that blared, "Mulholland Death Race" or in a motion picture tilled, appropriately enough, "King of the Mountain." "The majority of them are observers," said Greenfield of the Laurel Mills Homeowners Assn. "A car going over is Just as great a thrill to them as a car winning a race."

"It's a hard thing to explain what you're doing up here," said Gary, a painter for Lockheed who has been coming up to Mulholland for years. "It fits with my curriculum. There are absolutely no requirements up here, no money requirements, no time requirements, no responsibility. "Let me put it another way. There must be something to the area or people wouldn't spend millions of dollars to live here.

" Woit, who is 37 and runs a sporting goods store In Canyon Country, about 30 miles north of Los Angeles, still makes a pass along Mulholland every now and again. He too has noticed the changes. "There's a lot more people and a lot more traffic, a lot more housing developments and a lot more police," he said. "Everything has changed." "It's more of an escape area now, so you attract a lot more people who aren't necessarily interested in driving cars fast. It's just a place to hang out. And that's bad." In the old days, Woit said, police and racers cooperated. If police asked the drivers to lay low for a while, or move their activities to another part of Mulholland, they did. That isn't the way things work anymore. Another change, Woit said, is that the newer crowd of racers includes affluent young men whose parents have given them $15,000 or $20,000 Trans-Ams and Porsches.

Whatever the police do, Chris said, he believes racing on Mulholland will continue. "I think a lot of people who come up here and race Mulholland are doing it because they have dreams of being the next Mario Andretti. As much as racing on a race track is safer, Mulholland is more fun. Because you've got the thrill of the police. And the thrill of speed."

Post script:
No one knows tomorrow or the future. A few months later after the article was written Charley Woit passed away. The outdoorsman, mechanic, adventurer, goldminer and racer left this earth for a place that has no speed limits. Mysterious, legendary and also humbly human, lived in a small nondescript home in Canyon Country CA. With a garage just big enough to board a Corvette and tools to follow his pursuit of happiness like so many other piston heads. His passion lives on today gleaned in a reflection passed down to another Woit.

[mpribanic]

Wow!

Stumbled across this meaty thread by accident this morning. I was researching the old Paramount Ranch Raceway, clicked on a foto and it took me to page 232 of this thread. I haven't logged into Pelican in 5years & 5 months, lol. A lot has changed with the evolution of forums & of course foto app's like Instagram!

Just read 23 pages of the thread, now at page 255. Gonna continue on to the end, then read from the beginning to where I started on page 232. Recognized a couple names of posters, the first being THE Derek Whitacre, and Pete Stout. Not familiar with the story, or history of the car. Stoked!

Now back to my binge reading!

Mark Pribanic
Neptune Beach, Florida

[vntgspd]

Originally Posted by lfot

Hey all you ol' Mulhollanders... somebody went and made a short film about myself and my little 911SC Turbo.

Nicely done Derek!

It's nice to see that you are doing well and the car is perfect! Well done.