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

[mpribanic]

Originally Posted by Ajrothm

Here in south Texas, we don't have much for curvy roads, so we do a lot of straight line stuff here.. But back in July, my wife and I drove my 71' cross country to the Vette Assembly plant in BG Kentucky, then on to the famous Tail of the Dragon in Deals Gap NC. We spent a few nights up in a cottage in the mountains right on the tail. I ran the tail 4 times, it's 318 turns in 11 miles....it's a blast. The weight and crappy stock brakes really showed in the tight stuff but, I gave it a good shot. Here is some pics:

LOL, I've got the same pic but with my 356.

[Banning]

Originally Posted by lfot

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

Yes, well done video Derek.
Good footage of road driving, interviewing, drone application, and music score.
Did you script and execute this yourself with some assistance? Good Job.
Radu should make one also perhaps.

[thumpgun]

Great videos. I always enjoy going back through and reading on this thread and looking at the photo's.

[Maltese Falcon]

Originally Posted by TCracingCA

Ps so who has given the tourist double decker buses a thrill pass?? Weird that they are up there, with Hollywood sight seers!

Funny that you mention the big Tourist buses, there is one ( Starline) that pulls in front of my house...then tells all of the occupants that it is the home of guitarist Slash

[Jeff Hail]

Hey Marty,

Put a bucket on the curb with a sign hand painted on it "starving musician -please tip Slash". Then when the bus comes don a top hat and come out and take photos of them. I bet you could make a couple of bucks.

[Maltese Falcon]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail

Hey Marty,

Put a bucket on the curb with a sign hand painted on it "starving musician -please tip Slash". Then when the bus comes don a top hat and come out and take photos of them. I bet you could make a couple of bucks.

The bus driver actually caught me one day on a ladder doing some maintenance. He grilled me on "Where is Mr. Slash and Who are you? " I told him that I was the house-sitter and Slash is currently on tour. He still comes around and when he spots my wife, he refers to her as Mrs. Slash... he's quite a card !

[Maltese Falcon]

1969 SS 350 Camaro, new purchase during HS senior year 1969 . LT-1 , Cold air intake hood, 3863151 GM cam, Traco modified 2.02 heads, Cyclone headers, 4:10 posi, Tubo-hydro 3 speed (Fairchild Autom. mods), Casler 7" cheater slicks, set up for Lions dragstrip / Sunday mornings. If I wasn't going to the 1/4 mile, I would leave the Pos-a-Traction tires on the rear and go up to Mulholland. The Camaro was not well invested in suspension , other than drag shocks and Ansen traction bars, so usually just spirited driving up to Mulholland and lots of fun watching the races. This pic was taken up Laurel Canyon on the residential building lots in the area known as Mt. Olympus. The Standard gas station/ Foster's Freeze / mechanics shop was located just down the hill at Beverly + Crescent Heights, where I would tank up with 102 octane Supreme. There was a ratty looking primer and blue sting ray in the mechanics bay , and a guy I'd say mid 20's wrenching there. He would give me a grin +nod , probably because I would fuel my own car (gas stations were full service in 1969). After starting to read this thread and discussing Charley's early whereabouts with 2 other Mulholland experts here, I searched the public records for Woit, and came up with their Family house ('60s era) on Kirkwood Dr. in Laurel Canyon (about a 7 minute drive to the Standard gas station). Today it's a mini-mall, and the mechanics bay is a coin laundramat. When I'm in the SuperCuts barber shop...and now looking back... I think he dug the SS with the custom flat-tow bars out front !

[Maltese Falcon]

Originally Posted by Arizona 911

I know the locations filmed on Mulholland but I'm trying to find the location of the shop that Harry Hamlin and Dennis Hopper worked at in the movie.

The Factory @ 13332 / 34 Washington Bl. Mar Vista CA, was an independent Porsche shop , originally located at 12125 Washington Place, Mar Vista CA. (Or approx1.5 miles east of the 13332 Washington Bl. address). At its 12125 address they were known as the Porsche Factory, and of course Porsche allmighty made them strip the name just down to the Factory. The owners;
Tom Marx and Marc Rothman ran this very competive 911 in C production in POC .
I worked there part time while going to art school, another student and I painted the 911 and all livery (note address on fender). The 12125 location was demo'd to make way for a mini mall.
I met lots of cool mechanics and clients there, joined the POC and got to travel all over the western U.S. to go racing with team "Electric Banana"; pictured here (1977) entering the track at Riverside Intl Raceway.





While working part time at the Factory, I rented a corner of the shop where I started my 9146 conversion kit and turbo system kit enterprise; MSDS,inc.
I believe that after the Factory closed its 13332/34 doors, the auto repair next door took over the building.

[Maltese Falcon]

A fitting arrangement for a champion, while paying my respects to Charlie yesterday in the Hollywood Hills

[Maltese Falcon]

In the movie on location at 13332/ 34 Washington Bl. (The Factory) while watching you will notice some mechanics pushing a wide-body white 911 with a racing #
31 .This was a newer race car purchase by shop owner Tom Marx that replaced the older yellow 911 (electric banana).This white 911 just happens to be the ex Paul Newman RSR.

[TRE Cup]

this same car was driven by Tom Alan Marx:
Tom Alan Marx / USA---4/22/1979 6 Hours Riverside---31---50
Tom Alan Marx / USA---4/29/1979 100 Mile Laguna Seca---31---25
Tom Alan Marx / USA---4/27/1980 LA Times Grand Prix---31---14
Tom Alan Marx / USA---7/27/1980 Golden State 100 mile Challenge---31---10
Tom Alan Marx / USA---4/26/1981 6 hour Riverside---31---30
Tom Alan Marx / USA---4/26/1981 Los Angeles 6 hour Grand Prix---31---30
Tom Alan Marx / USA---5/3/1981 100 mile Laguna Seca---31---22
Tom Alan Marx / USA---7/26/1981 100 mile Sears Point---31---25


this car was entered as an RSR, but no one knows what the real vin was. Tom bought the car from Newman Racing and they campaigned it in Imsa and some POC events. Car was taken completely apart in hopes of building a tube frame updated more competitive entrant. But the financing collapsed , the car sold off and eventually ended up rusting away in a wrecking yard in Switzerland

[Maltese Falcon]

Dave, never heard about the buzz on their RSR/ vin except with your current news " RSRish ". After their new building went up and they started racing the ex-Newman car, I relocated my new business east on Washington Bl. near the Sony Studios hood ; only met with Tom at SEMA a few times since then. Sad end to a cool car...would have been interesting to authenticate it.

[TRE Cup]

I watched the transformation from 74/75 RSR body to the AIR GTU (pictured) at Dan's shop. It had aluminum SC arms on it at the time. If a real RSR, they would have been steel and different shape than production arms, different inner pick up points. For a race car to go "backwards" with street parts would have been really unusual
Since the car had a large fuel cell, the original VIN was long gone. The trunk panel was cut for clearance on the big tank. Tom did not remember a VIN when we discussed it years later.
Those were the days, which continued until the 996 cup and rsr generation, where you would take a street shell and prep it into a full on racer when you wanted to be competitive .

JLP Racing, and others, started with plentiful 912 and 911 chassis for their 935's

For what it's worth, the chassis pictured in the wrecking yard in Switzerland, was pretty mangled. The property owner was ordered by the government to sell off all the cars (as many as 2000 of them?!?), as it was an environmental hazard and eyesore back in 2009

[ChrislovesMul]

Great videos Derek! The bumper cam shot was reminiscent of Rendezvous. Did some drifting in a 2017 911 4S a few months ago and can't believe how different they feel compared to the older cars!

[safe]

I happened to visit LA just a few days ago, and I just had to go for a drive on Mulholland with my Kia rental.
Fun road!

Found a lot of nice roads in mountains around the LA area. You are lucky to have those.

[ChrislovesMul]

Originally Posted by Maltese Falcon

Funny that you mention the big Tourist buses, there is one ( Starline) that pulls in front of my house...then tells all of the occupants that it is the home of guitarist Slash

Have you got a look at the driver of the bus? in 2006 there was a guy called Stunt Road Steve that used to be pretty fast in a lightly modified Toyota Carolla. He was a big flat bed truck driver at the time who would haul ass in both cars.

When Operation Safe Canyon launched he probably got hit the hardest of any of the racers of that era. The last time I spoke with him, he said he was doing tours for the busses in Hollywood and took his tour bus through Mulholland.

Steve was pretty fast, but there were other guys in that time doing well over 100mph down that road in the mid 2000s. I remember one night a guy trying to show off donuts in his new Mercedes and flying right off the cliff in front of 20-30 people. Great times.

[NSX430]

Wow, quite a long and colorful thread. Takes me back to the days I ran my 510, 356, 2002, RX3, Z etc on Mul.

[rick8928]

[Jeff Hail]

People do the craziest things around Mulholland. Go to the 24 second mark.

[Noah930]

Anyone know what's up with the filming up on the Race Course tonight? Between Gandstands and Bowmont. Road was down to a single lane, with an off duty cop directing traffic and about 100 other guys standing around in reflective safety vests.