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

[mrbeverlyhills]

Production Shoot on Mulholland 11/27- 11/30
No Parking & Alternating Directional Closures
According to the Production office/Production manager and confirmed by FilmLA:
This is a fully permitted, union shoot for a new LA based TV series, Too Old to Die Young. Scheduled to take place Monday 11/27- Thursday AM 11/30. The exact location is Laurel Pass to Summit Circle.
This shoot will have a crew of 60 working out of their base camp, the Tree People parking lot. Expect to see crews arriving around 3pm.
Rehearsals on the side of the road from 5p-7p.
ALTERNATING DIRECTIONAL CLOSURES as they film from 7pm to 6am on Tuesday and Wednesday and until 8am on Thursday.
NO PARKING ANYTIME on 11/27-11/29 and from 7am- 10pm on 11/30.
There will be four LAPD officers and a Fire Safety Adviser on set to ensure public safety.
Gunfire is listed in the permit request. The production manager stated that they have reduced to ¼ loads, which will minimize the noise significantly. The production has made numerous other changes to their creative plans in order to reduce their impact on the community. FilmLA is looking into limiting the gunfire to earlier in the night shoot, as opposed to later.
Plan your commutes through this area accordingly. If you have concerns about alternate routes, contact FilmLA for suggested detours.
Please DO NOT CALL the Council Office, Production Officer or FilmLA and ask that this LEGALLY PERMITTED shoot be shut down, forced to change their hours or moved to another part of Mulholland.
It is so very important that, as a community, we show support for local businesses and productions. ****
Contact the Production office or FilmLA with any concerns regarding permit violations. You can find their contact info in the attached flier.

[Jeff Hail]

Originally Posted by 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.

It means if you show up look important or like a stunt man and you can get free food off the catering truck.

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[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail

It means if you show up look important or like a stunt man and you can get free food off the catering truck.

Heck, most of us would volunteer to do the stunt driving on Mul (or anywhere else), right?


Saw a silver 996 or 997 with the license plate "MULHLD 1" on Laurel Cyn & Lookout Mtn this evening. Anyone here?

[mrbeverlyhills]

Yes (not me) its a 997 he is a member of the Mulholland Tennis Club.

I see it in the parking lot.

[ChrislovesMul]

Merry Christmas hahahaha!!!



Claims a truck crossed the double yellow line. Saw the video before he took it down, truck was barely over if at all. Looks like he panicked and had some lift off over steer straight into the wall. He was even wearing a shirt that said "don't cross the double yellow" when it happened. Operator error.

[ChrislovesMul]

Hypocrites get the best presents from Santa

[Heel n Toe]

Yikes. I hope ol' Frank is okay.

Hopefully he was wearing his protective beanie and was driving at reasonable and safe speeds as usual.

[ChrislovesMul]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEquKkE3fAE&feature=youtu.be

Video of Frank doing Frank things.

[Parabolica]

Hey Jeff, I know it's probably 100 pages back when we discussed it, but I found the issue of Small Car Trends my 510 was in! Check it out:




Boy that brings back memories...

[Jeff Hail]

Hey Rob!

Totally cool. If you had that car today would be worth some $. Where was the photo lower right twistys taken?

Funny thought reading the article notes. Once upon a time you could build a car on a teenage income.

[Parabolica]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail

Hey Rob!
Where was the photo lower right twistys taken?

It's been so many years I don't really remember. I think we may have met at a school or church off Mul near Sepulveda, so it was likely taken in that area...

[Parabolica]

BTW, this is the new ride:

[Jeff Hail]

We lost another one. For the SoCal boys who were raised on IMSA and SCCA Ron was pretty well known. Hanging with the likes of our own Victor Van Tres, Pat Pearson and Lance Stewart back in the showroom stock days of Riverside Raceway.

On January 10,2018 Ron Cortez went home to victory lane.


A born racer, Ron was a fixture at Sears Point for nearly 30 years. Ron’s Tire Shop AIM, (AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL MOTORSPORTS), was a clubhouse and classroom. Aside from mounting race tires, Ronnie mentored and shaped many champions, drawing from knowledge gained during his many years as a “driver.” Ron was also an integral part in the conception and development of a number of racing series for NASA and the SCCA. Sanctioning bodies, folks in the tower, paddock and pits have all benefited from Ron’s participation in motorsport.


Ronald Wayne Cortez
August 6, 1950 ~ January 10, 2018 (age 67)

[Doug E]

Great thread! Thanks for the all the history and stories. I've never driven Mulholland but have enjoyed reading through all of these pages over the years.

I recently acquired a bunch of old Panaorama magazines from the '70's and just came across an article on Mulholland which mentions and quotes Chris about his Carrera.

It is from April 1979 and I thought I'd add it to this thread in case anyone is interested in reading it ...

[sugarwood]

I uploaded all those sideways photos into a single PDF you can read here
https://nofile.io/f/Cjvq0jsgsM6/thunder_road.pdf

[MidnightCircuit]

Originally Posted by ChrislovesMul

Merry Christmas hahahaha!!!



Claims a truck crossed the double yellow line. Saw the video before he took it down, truck was barely over if at all. Looks like he panicked and had some lift off over steer straight into the wall. He was even wearing a shirt that said "don't cross the double yellow" when it happened. Operator error.

Frank is a jackass.

[ChrislovesMul]

Originally Posted by MidnightCircuit

Frank is a jackass.

very similar to guys who accuse other people of running that mouth when they can't stack up on the time sheets.

[daepp]

I followed this thread for the first couple of years but admittedly not lately, so if you’ve already discussed this then my apologies.
I saw this Singer at the Phoenix Club meet last week. It blew me away and would be great if you’re an LA guy!

[TCracingCA]

I am one of the Resident Corvette Race car Owner's and mostly a Turnbull Canyon alumni in C2/C3 Corvettes, 67 Camaro, and a Porsche 914- V8 Rod Simpson Conversion car, but also a Mulholland Alumni also.

I am still a Porsche fan, as you can see on Pg. 339 of this thread, as we still have cars in our family.

I have been documenting the exploits of the Corvette crowd on these roads (Mulholland, Turnbull Canyon, Glendora, and others) and got this reply on Corvette forum, from someone who knew the legend of Mulholland "Charlie Woit"

I thought I would share the reply!

Originally Posted by krystociak

Just for the record, I grew up in Laurel Canyon having been born in 1949 and knew Charlie Woit very well although he was a few years older than me. He was a nice guy, alway kind to us somewhat younger kids.
When we were all kids Charlie lived up on Stanley Hills Dr. in Laurel Canyon.
A few doors up the street from my best friend Chris Lehne.
We all were street racers in the 50's, on coasters we made ourselves from 2x4's with curtain rods for axles. Rope steering. (Charlie didn't use rope steering though)
The Hollywood Hills were great for racing......lots of steep hills to roar down.
My thoughts of those days were sparked this morning after seeing a Corvette Stingray on Ebay which is similar to Charlies last car......
So I googled Mulholland Charlie, found some info, read it.
Some of the info is accurate, most of it is a mixture of info and stories of Charlie, Ronell, and Richard Gray and Dana Zither on his Norton, Carl Moore on his BSA (Carls turn) and others from that era.
First of all......the story of Charlie driving with one hand on the steering wheel and the other wrapped around a can of beer.....follow him by the trail of beer cans.....total BS. Crap. Charlie was more like a priest of street racing and a guru of developing well engineered street race cars on a shoestring budget. He didn't drink. And he was very very concentrated in his endeavors. The idea that he was crazy or ever referred to as "Crazy Charley" is not true. The racing took place at night so you could see if someone was coming the other way so you could shut down or so they could see you coming and get out of the way. Not crazy. (Kinda)...
I recall Gordon Karrell telling me that when he was a DJ at the radio station on top of the hill above Carls turn that he would see Charlie practice during the day at Carls turn, but first Charlie would get out his push broom and carefully sweep the pavement, THEN practice!! True story.!!!
Charlie's cars being described in the available info online are a mishmash of the various street racing cars built in Laurel Canyon in that era. Yes his first race vehicle was an early fifties half ton GMC pickup, (not a Chevy) with a GMC truck V6 from a later model GMC, which with drag slicks the legend was that it had so much torque and traction it would do wheel stands. I never saw it actually do a wheel stand although Richard Gray said he did.
The Hillman car discussed didn't exist.
The Simca discussed online was Richards.....but the idea of the rear mounted radiator is from Ronnells full race grey Sunbeam Alpine (McCullough supercharged!)....
The 1955 Ford was not a station wagon but a 2 door coupe, yes as stated with a straight 6. Charlie fabricated his own intake manifold and headers. It had a 4 barrel carb! Interior gutted with one race seat. Charlie would race in that Ford and beat then newish Cobras.

The Corvette was 427. It was either black or dark blue (not red)....Full race, with lights and wipers, marginal mufflers etc for street racing. I seriously doubt that Charlie went to anyone like Dick Guldstrand since money was always an issue back then and Charlie had the ability to engineer his own setup......Charlie died in his Corvette in a racing wreck in Bouquet Canyon, I can't remember when exactly but the info online is most likely accurate or close to it.

Yes Steve Mcqueen has a Jag XKSS, (awesome!!) but that was in the late 50's.
Charlie era was 1960 on.
Steve Mcqueen story had to do with his being beaten on Mulholland by Ronnell.......Steve in his Mini Cooper S (big bucks very modded) vs Ronnell's Sunbeam.
Might have more real stories if anyone is interested......not sure.
Be well.....

Great addition, to the history!

Doug Hooper who won the first C2 Sting Ray victory ever at Riverside International Raceway in 1962, against the 1st Shelby Cobra ever raced that day indicated that he sold parts to Charlie, but Doug used to get things from Guldstrand. Just about every Corvette that could handle on the west coast and many many many in the other parts of the Country had some Guldstrand parts. Most you could install yourself. In 1971 Guldstrand sold Solid bushings, Bump Steer blocks, double adjust Koni's, Beefed up relay rod, HD idler arms, HD tie rod arms, All of the race sway bars, spreader bars, camber modified Strut rod bracket and the heimed strut rods, etc. etc. Our car that ran thru Mulholland, was equipped with such going back to the beginning of the 1970's. My Father and Dick Guldstrand were good friends, going back to the C1 Corvette days of the late 1950's. I shared some of that on Pg. 340 or 341 here.

[TCracingCA]

Originally Posted by daepp

I followed this thread for the first couple of years but admittedly not lately, so if you’ve already discussed this then my apologies.
I saw this Singer at the Phoenix Club meet last week. It blew me away and would be great if you’re an LA guy!

I was at the Phoenix Club also, and shot pictures too! That is a cool car, but when I saw the Mulholland, I instantly looked at the Orange Stripes and they just didn't quite mimic the Mulholland Course (too bad, as that would have been even cooler!). That would have been the only change, I would have made to the car!