What happened to the Mulholland "King of the Hill" RSR? - Page 42

marmot · 03-24-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally posted by crush301
Still Banning has the best evasion story....I mean the cops were walking up to Banning who was out of his rsr and just as they arrived at Bannings car, and placing their hand onto it......Banning getting back in through the window with foot on clutch car in first gear turned the ignition and while wheeling out of the turn out he grabs 1st then 2nd then 3rd and hes entering the first idetical turn and the cops are still standing in turn out going what just happen. Oh I remember that one, it was a good one.

We really need to hear this story.

Jeff Hail · 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by marmot
We really need to hear this story.

Rewind to Page 36 (2nd Frame)
What happened to the Mulholland "King of the Hill" RSR?

I bet everytime Chris pass's that driveway he grins.....

Have you heard the soundtrack?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEBeqeLYsKQ

Inside joke (for Chris- he earned it )

SSB · 03-24-2007, 07:01 PM

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The same recording, just different formats

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:08 PM

This is an old postcard from Mulholland near Laurel Canyon. Can anyone identify this exact location?

Jeff Hail · 10:20 AM

More Mulholland stuff-

2006 News Story Video: 8 teens go over the side of Mulholland all packed in a Nissan Sentra (2 in the trunk). The movie "Idiocrasy" is my first thought.
http://cbs2.com/video/?id=19203@kcbs.dayport.com

Taking the Mulholland plunge (still shot for above video)

Errol Flynns Estate at Mulholland and Torreyson Place. You can see the Chemosphere home in the background.

Engine Company 76 (Mulholland and Coldwater) Circa 1938

Sepulveda Tunnel

Aerial shot (between Wrightwood and Dona Pegita)

Our own David Lynch director of the movie Mulholland Drive standing between Carls Junior and Deadmans.

You are now entering the Mulholland Zone

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:14 PM

I bet everytime Chris pass's that driveway he grins.....

Jeff, I do think of this turn, not only because it's where I got away in a most dramatic way but also becaue it's where I crashed my bicycle when I was about 9 years old and all alone on Mulholland and seemingly far from home. It has special significance.

Jeff Hail · 03-24-2007, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by Banning

This is an old postcard from Mulholland near Laurel Canyon. Can anyone identify this exact location?

I woulds say right about here: Mulholland and Allenwood going west.

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:32 PM

Jeff, the night those teens went off Mul, it was right in the Identicals near my house. Those helicopters were making noise for what seemed like hours while they pulled those teens from down the sheer cliff embankment below the second Identical. Two flew from the trunk where they were getting a thrill ride. I think that they got more than they bargained for.... they were ejected at high speed down the mountain.
I saw them get airlifted out at about 2:00am from Mulholland, I used my binoculars to see in detail from my bedroom. The car was very overloaded with 8 passengers, small Japanese car, didn'd know the road, lived far away, car had stock thin wheels, other than that they were set up for racing Mulholland. No wonder they went off. However, many cars go off this particular place, it's a dangerous location.

In 1965, I heard a crash from the Identicals in the late afternoon. I went to Mulholland and saw a Schoolbus had crashed with a motorcycle head-on in the first Identical. The poor guy's leg was spread over a 20 foot swath right in the middle of the turn in bright red. It corresponded with a black tire lock-up coming from the other direction, also in a circular arc around the turn. I watched these two marks fade over the next two months on Mulholland. It taught me early to be respectful of Motorcycles now how much you might like them. Some things you never forget, this experience is one for me. I can still see the red...................

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:40 PM

I'm not sure if this Herald Examiner article from July 19.1982 has been posted. More interesting information is here.

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:43 PM

It taught me early to be respectful of Motorcycles now how much you might like them.

Correction: It taught me early to be respectful of Motorcycles, no matter how much you might like them.

Jeff Hail · 03-24-2007, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by Banning
I bet everytime Chris pass's that driveway he grins.....

Jeff, I do think of this turn, not only because it's where I got away in a most dramatic way but also becaue it's where I crashed my bicycle when I was about 9 years old and all alone on Mulholland and seemingly far from home. It has special significance.

No grin on the crash part. Not good.

I did the same thing in front of Tree People on my bicycle. Broke a finger, broke left radius and ulna and still have scars on my hands. I didn't even think about Firestation 76 fifty yards behind me. I walked down to Ventura holding my arm and went to the Firestation next to Sportsman Lodge where I was told I passed out. I still draw a blank of that day. I crashed again a year later on another bicycle just north of Tree People on Coldwater. The front end washed out when I hit some sand and gravel.

Bicycles were not safe on Mulholland Drive....

LateBrakeU2 · 03-24-2007, 07:52 PM

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Originally posted by SSB
> >Ogg Vorbis (6.7mb)
> >http://www.505turbo.com/vvt/Deucer.ogg
> >
> >MP3 (7.2mb)
> >http://www.505turbo.com/vvt/Deucer.mp3
> >
> >WAV (159mb)
> >http://www.505turbo.com/vvt/Deucer.mp3
> >--

The same recording, just different formats

Priceless!!

Carpenter:
"Your driving like an itiot"
Tommy:
"I thought racing meant staying on your side of the road"

Tommy:
"You know the apex is there,you just can't find it"

Victor:
"I have an R5 turbo II"

Tommy:
"Did it have three lugnuts?"

My cheeks are still hurting

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:53 PM

This is an interesting postcard from the twenties showing the original Mulholland Drive. It went around the Mulholland Resevoir for cars to enjoy. This is before the Mulholland Drive we know of was built. By the way, very close by is the beginning of today's Mulholland Drive in the Cahenga Pass at Woodrow Wilson Dr. It's just over the Dam's embankment to the middle left.

Banning · 03-24-2007, 07:58 PM

By the way the postcard says Hollywood Reservoir but it was originally commisioned The Mulholland Reservoir until the big mistake with the St. Francis Dam that destroyed William Mulholland's career.

Banning · 03-24-2007, 08:06 PM

Here's a couple of photos of Mark M. illustraiting how Mulholland trained him for professional motorsports. He became number one in showroom stock in SCCA. This was thanks to Mulholland, he is the first to confirm this. Way to go Mark.

Jeff Hail · 03-24-2007, 08:58 PM

Two guys I know had "accidents" on Mulholland. These were unique as they did not involve racing or self inflicted operation of a vehicle (sort of) but more of the not paying attention variety.

When I first started going up to Mulholland I got a flat tire in my Fiat 124. I forgot to set the e-brake. Car was jacked up and started to roll forward. Friend Mike K. opens the door and goes to grab the e-brake handle as the jack folds. Mike gets clobbered on the head by the driprail as the car drops and was knocked out. Mike was out for a good two minutes. He comes to and is pissed off, first thing out of his mouth was "why did you hit me"? He was even more ticked off when the realization of what happened set in. Mike was a big guy - proceeded to pull up on the wheelwell so I could pull the jack out and start over. He must have called me an idiot a hundred times that night. I admit as I typed this out I have been LMAO.

Later a guy I knew from Grant High School named Tony C. is parked up at Grandstands. Just had a Clifford Alarm installed in his 510 with power door lock actuators and all the bells and sirens. Tony didn't race he just hung out with his cool 510. Well Tony loved coffee and takes off behind Grandstands to pee. The alarm goes chirp, chirp. Tony comes back and his doors are locked with the key in the ignition. A couple of guys offer to take him home to get the spare keys. Tony says no way the car will get towed before he gets back in time. After about half an hour of trying to get into the car without success Tony grabs a rock and whacks it against the drivers door glass. Gets hand and arm bloodied by glass in the process. He was still in the pitchers follow through just as the cops were entering the driveway. I recall Grandstands was packed two rows deep that night and those two cops levitated out of the car so fast towards Tony. Bad thing was Tony didn't have his registration or DL with him that night. Other not so good thing Tony had "Little Man Syndrome". He gets his car towed because of mouth and can't prove the car was his. I drove him to Archers Towing the next moring to bail out the 510. He presents registration and DL with bandaged arm, pays the fee's, life is good again.

Nope...Brand new Pioneer Supertuner got swiped while in the clutches of Archers Towing.

Jeff Hail · 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by SSB
> >Ogg Vorbis (6.7mb)
> >http://www.505turbo.com/vvt/Deucer.ogg
> >
> >MP3 (7.2mb)
> >http://www.505turbo.com/vvt/Deucer.mp3
> >
> >WAV (159mb)
> >http://www.505turbo.com/vvt/Deucer.mp3
> >--

The same recording, just different formats

Raced Riverside on Tequila? A banana is lunch, Porsche's and Ferrari's buried in the Desert, Dan McLaughlin........

I need to hear the rest of this dinner story...

Jeff Hail · 03-24-2007, 09:19 PM

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Originally posted by Banning

This is an interesting postcard from the twenties showing the original Mulholland Drive. It went around the Mulholland Resevoir for cars to enjoy. This is before the Mulholland Drive we know of was built. By the way, very close by is the beginning of today's Mulholland Drive in the Cahenga Pass at Woodrow Wilson Dr. It's just over the Dam's embankment to the middle left.

Artist's perspective

SSB · 03-25-2007, 07:55 AM

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Originally posted by Banning

He became number one in showroom stock in SCCA. This was thanks to Mulholland, he is the first to confirm this. Way to go Mark.

How much you payin' for all this publicity, MM ?

We were all known as "The Mulholland Gang" in the Renault Cup and even at the Malibu Grand Prix League in Azuza back in '84 . Me, Cortez, Carpenter, Deucer, Norris, Lance & Mitchell. (Go back about 30 pages or so for the Renault Cup results from Riverside April '84)

Banning · 03-25-2007, 09:18 AM

Here's another photo of Mark in a bigger, faster racecar, and ready to race, thanks to Mulholland. Believe it!

This is Mark at the SCCA runoffs at Mid-Ohio in 2004. See Mark power slide that Corvette thru the turns, just like on Mul. We love to see guys like Mark, Bobby C., George M. and a few others who made it in Pro Racing after seasoning on Mulholland. Yes!