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

[TCracingCA]

Originally Posted by Banning

A very talented Researcher, Video Creator/Editor, and Porsche Enthusiast named Geoff Farintosh from Toronto just finished his latest, very well-done Story of Racing Mulholland.

It was released this morning and incorporates information from many different sources.
Great Photos, videos, and story-lines are carefully put together to make this a great addition to our Love of Mulholland Lore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecd3wbEahYA

Thank you Geoff for your talents and efforts to produce this piece of Los Angeles history.

I guess I got immortalized in this video. Cool

I saw he gave a prominent opening part to Dick! I was one of his favored minion, and have one of his shop Doctors Smocks, he gave me his old shop banner, I have his shop rate sign, his Competition plaque board.






In this videos accuracy, we learned Charlie was not a drinker, when driving.

If that is Charlie's actual Vette, it wasn't too tricked out and Chris your car would have kicked the crap out of that particular Corvette.

I do question the Porsche Factory settings for an RSR for usage on Mulholland! We have a bunch of Hot Porsches and would have to soften the settings. The Factory setup is for smooth tracks, not a road like Mulholland.

I don't remember if I posted fast Corvette people, Laurie Tex was a Valley gal out there, Dick Takashima ran Mulholland alot, Doug Hooper Riverside 1962 winner had his shop there below on hill, etc.
Laurie Tex (KMET)

Takai


Doug

[wiegmann]

Hi everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I live off of Mulholland Drive and drive it, spiritedly, often. Have been since the day I got my license.

Well, it's hard to overstate how this is affecting me.

https://x.com/cd4losangeles/status/1722766577475768344?s=20

Installation of speed humps have begun on four stretches of Mulholland. The first set of four were added today. I'm going to drive up tonight to see if there's space on either end to dip a tire, but I'm not optimistic.

[TRE Cup]

Well, sporty drivers will adapt to these new speed bumps. Motocross bikes and soft suspension cars with plenty of wheel travel will become the new norm.....

These bumps will be installed from Hollywood all the way to the 405 before long.
911 Dakar anyone ?

[Zeke]

To answer the question about the Riverside layout, it looked like this:



The dotted red line shows the original track and then the reconfiguration. IDK when this work was done but TREcup probably does because Dave raced there. So did I in an enduro kart but the work was done by that time, the mid 80's.

Karts and amatuear sports cars used the connector at T7 to what they called T7A and called the short course. Can Am, IROC, etc used the entire black line while NASCAR took the shortcut from T6 to T8.

I believe the long track was just over 2.5 miles but I'm not sure. There were many elevation changes notably where the red arrow is before T7 was a rise that made entering 7 blind until you were up to the crest of the rise. There was also a considerable rise going up into 6 which then became essentially an off camber turn when the course flattened out in the turn. It wasn't really but felt like it. The shortcut made that a lot easier for the big stock cars to make that turn.

And lastly, T9 was banked and a pretty good banking at that. However, IIRC, the racing line was not up on the bank much but pretty much tight around the inside stripe. And then drift out while those pitting would stay inside. That was a good pit entrance.

[gigasquid]

same here, and it doesn't look like u can get around them. The best bet is probably smashing them with a sledgehammer/jackhammer or something.

[safe]

Originally Posted by TRE Cup

Well, sporty drivers will adapt to these new speed bumps. Motocross bikes and soft suspension cars with plenty of wheel travel will become the new norm.....

These bumps will be installed from Hollywood all the way to the 405 before long.
911 Dakar anyone ?

A speed bump is just another obstacle, like a tight corner, you optimize for the average bets time. In the end the bumps are only a problem for the "normal" people who live there.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by safe

A speed bump is just another obstacle...

wiegmann said they will be speed HUMPS, not bumps... there's a difference.

Originally Posted by wiegmann

Installation of speed humps have begun on four stretches of Mulholland.

[Banning]

Originally Posted by TCracingCA

I have this same track. The Riverside logo is accurate and 1/24 slot set were the premium tracks with the big slot cars. The 1/24 tracks usually built had commercial rental centers, and were gigantic but could be 4-8 lanes wide. Thus if you actually attempted to reproduce a track to the actual layout of Riverside, the box would be 4x bigger, and it would not fit in your livingroom to scale. Yes Riverside never crossed over. The autocross/slalom guys in SCCSCC would get pretty creative, but it wasn't demolition derby. If your track has those cars, then those alone are worth $$$$. The McLaren M1A, and Chaparral 2A (won Sebring 12 Hours), so you have either late 1965/or 1966, the date should be somewhere on the box. These gave us slot car kids the ability to drive and test, tune our cars for the big time, Professional track places. We used to go to Redondo Beach Pier, in a downstairs from the pier level place that had three tracks or out to Buena Park where the guy had two tracks and a drag strip and still open. My Father lost a 1/24 Cox Cheetah, stolen right out of his pit box there in the 1990s. Got to watch your good stuff.

Good information, thanks for verifying that it was Riverside International Raceway that was being depicted.

[Banning]

Originally Posted by wiegmann

Hi everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I live off of Mulholland Drive and drive it, spiritedly, often. Have been since the day I got my license.

Well, it's hard to overstate how this is affecting me.

https://x.com/cd4losangeles/status/1722766577475768344?s=20

Installation of speed humps have begun on four stretches of Mulholland. The first set of four were added today. I'm going to drive up tonight to see if there's space on either end to dip a tire, but I'm not optimistic.

These are not the first Speed Bumps to be installed. The first ones appeared just west of Coldwater in European Straight about 3 years ago.

These new set of Speed Bumps are east of Laurel Canyon according to the map.
This area was not a preferred place to race around in and is quite a ways from "The Racecourse" between Coldwater and Laurel.

Let's hope that the City doesn't put down Speed Bumps all across Mulholland.
Like Dave said, to adjust, you would increase suspension travel, raise the car, and soften the spring rates. Then you could just fly over those darn Bumps.

[whackit]

Also a long time lurker that lives off Mulholland. Took the girl out for a spirited drive to you know... blow out the carbs. Did my usual sprint off the line at Laurel Canyon heading east and into the first sweep by the fire station at speed... Didn't know about the humps... Well you can hit them pretty fast in a pretty low car. I was probably down to about 60 when I hit it and although it jostled my fillings it didn't bottom me out or trash my fog lights. I will say they are placed by someone who knows how to suck maximum joy (probably steals his kids Halloween candy). There's no getting around them. Too bad. I loved this section.

[Banning]

[Tobra]

If you pour diesel or gasoline on speed humps, will it dissolve them?


Asking for a friend

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tobra

If you pour diesel or gasoline on speed humps, will it dissolve them?


Asking for a friend

Certainly will make it more dangerous for the next few cars.

We have some prefab bumps around here. You could scrape them away.

[Tobra]

What will dissolve asphalt?

Turpentine, or it looks like there is a product called Pavepro that is intended for this sort of thing

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tobra

What will dissolve asphalt?

Turpentine, or it looks like there is a product called Pavepro that is intended for this sort of thing

If you've ever seen an asphalt surface that had a gas spill you know that gas dissolves it readily. Diesel just a little slower. Any petro solvent won't be a good thing.

The ones I referred to are likely recycled tires.

Gas dumped on Mulholland will be a disaster. Crumbling greasy asphalt with the rubble spreading like COVID.

[VZ935]

Happy New Year everyone. Wishing all a solid 2024

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by TRE Cup

Well, sporty drivers will adapt to these new speed bumps. Motocross bikes and soft suspension cars with plenty of wheel travel will become the new norm.....

These bumps will be installed from Hollywood all the way to the 405 before long.
911 Dakar anyone ?

Kinda like movies from the 70s where it 70s American cars fly over curbs..

[_e_w_]

The course is going to be closed for a while. Wonder if they'll make some changes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irI3hUlPxuo

[Mr. Merk]

Banning, how long will the car be on display at the Petersen? We'll be in town April 26th for the Air+Water show and would love to see it in person.

[lfot]

Looks like the racecourse is washed out again.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3EH0eIvPiW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link