Jeremy,
Currently have dailey driver 1979 911 SC targa Carrera GT Silver,
Only 911 I've left stock !
1972 911S 3.0 Andial twin plug,930 brakes charlie bars,Grand Prix White
1973 T/RS 3.0 Sparco race seats,Das Roll Bar, RSR style twin exhaust
for sale $50K

Henry,

Are you the same henry that was sideswiped by a mustang going up coldwater canyon road?

Ground Effect answer No, Nobody ever got nect to me on Coldwater
Ever I was too fast,my 510/240Z/Lotus Elan never got caught on that canyon road. HPV

Do you remember a red '65 mustang coupe that ran with Pat Pearson, Ron Cortez and Bob Wilcox (aka Bullwinkle)?

Is this the Porschev you guys were talking about earlier?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1169734703.jpg

That's it !

That would be Kieth (aka Rocky?

I can scan in the rest of the cars from this article if you want, there are some pretty interseting rides in there.

I can honestly say that I never saw that porschev monster up on mulholland.
The red mustang coupe was a beat up K code hi-po that Keith Jones resurrected from the dead for $500. He really threw that car around.

To lend some Porsche content to this thread:
A Porsche independant shop owner in the south bay imported a pair of 906's from europe. John D. actually came up to mulholland one night zipping around- too bumpy for the plastic porsche!

There was a shop on La Cienega called Group 3 Racing (where Fatburger is at San Vicente and La Cienega).
A bunch of racing gear heads that were into porsches were doing repairs and modifying them. One of the buddies (may have even been a partner) had a 911R that he drove on the street (Jeff Mannix) Well.. Jeff happened to live right off Mulholand and you know the rest- That car wailed with its rally exhaust
There were articles on it too. Saw it for sale at Bob Smith Porsche for $8k OBO asking price (yah- i know- i pestered my parents incessantly for two weeks till i found the car sold for around 6k to someone else)
Another car that made a few "test laps" was a 911 that Gp 3 built for imsa 2.5 class. They took a 911S, welded on and modified 4) super beetle fenders for flares (they looked pretty good too!). They built the snot out of the motor and suspension. It remained "street legal" for a while and it made some hellacious passes thru .
But the driver never stopped- car was dark blue with straight pipes. As you can imagine the ever so glorious 7500 rpm wail bouncing off the mountain's cliffs most certainly woke up the neighborhood!

HPV wrote: "Ever I was too fast,my 510/240Z/Lotus Elan never got caught on that canyon road. "

Yeah -about that Elan- no one wanted to catch you since its electricals were always catching fire !!! (hee hee hee- Lucas - Prince of Darkness struck again!)

Henry, I know what you drive now. I have driven them :) Did you know my brother back then? He ran a couple 510s too.

Re: Victor's Getting Old
 

You can do it page by page using the latest Adobe Reader 8 (download it here). You open the PDF file in the new reader and go to the first page you want to convert and select Edit-->Copy File to Clipboard from the menu bar. Then open your imaging program and Edit-->Paste the page into a new image file and save it as a jpeg. Repeat for each page you want to convert, saving each one with a different file name.

Or you could upload the PDF file to a free web-hosting site and just post a link to it here. Or send it to me by email and I'll do it for you, if these directions are too obscure or unclear.

This is a great thread, I'd be willing to convert and post the article to keep it expanding and growing.

TT

Unfortunately I can't say. I've seen the movie and thought it was great, but I was also about 11 years old. I'd like to see it again. I'd be bummed if it wasn't any good.

I hope that "Gumball Rally" goes to DVD someday.

BTW, this and the other thread about the writing of the Banning book are great. I was born too late and on the wrong side of the states.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Slider79SC
[B]Is this the Porschev you guys were talking about earlier?


Thats it!

I'm glad you found that. I have been looking in my stack of Hot Rod mags. for a couple days now for the article.

SSB, TRE CUP

Yes, that Red Mustang was me!

SSB - I don't recall you...what did you drive?

TRE CUP - Dave, I thought remembered you from the early days when we met at the RGruppe meets, but I couldn't place when or where. After seeing the photo of your Tempest it all came back and I couldn't resist jumping in this thread. I remember seeing that big stock car of yours rumbling through the canyons, it always reminded me of NASCAR at Riverside...looked *****en.

Those were great days mixing it up with everything from little fiats sedans to Charlie's Vet. We used to call him crazy Charlie, not only because of his wild driving, but also because of some of the stunts he pulled. Were you there the night he pulled out a revolver, shot out the streetlight and sped off? Amazing we survived.

Keith

masraum, gumball rally is available on the ebay right now.
david

Hey Keith- Often wondered where you ended up!!
This is getting "what a small world we live in", isn't it? Remember big Steve- he is in the hospital with some infection- you can contact me at the shop (818 509-0257) for his info- I think he would get a blast hearing from you

Charlie> oh yeah; you bet i remember. I had my back turned to him chatting with some one when he had stumbled up, pulled his .38 and blasted the light to its demise. He slurringly yelled out "Damn it- I finally got you $#%&* sucker !!" It bugged him whenever he was driving thru at night, i guess.

I don't know if i was the one responsible for turning him onto Dick Guldstrand. My dad had a Citroen SM at the time, and the only service center was off of Jefferson near Traco and Dick's place. Dick was nice enough to allow me to check out the cars (various race Corvettes, a Cheetah, a replica Mc Claren coupe with aluminum headed small block)
When Charlie started trusting us and parked to chat, I told him all about the Gran Sport vettes that GM had done. We walked around his car and i detailed out the trick stuff those cars had and told him about Guldstrand's. Shortly thereafter his Vette started getting meaner and meaner. We used to take my dad's machine shop cars to Charlie's gas station for repairs too

SSB is Victor and remember the super clean MGB on chrome wires? That was him. He got the Peugeot to race later one

Best thread of 2007?

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