First of all I'd like to thank the organizers putting this rally together.
This was my first year running it and it was a hell of a fun!We signed up with 2 of my cars,my 61 hotrod volvo 544 and my 82 sc(not so much stock either.)
It was good to see friends and other car nuts having fun.Everybody was helpful and looking out for each other,great spirit indeed.
The Porsche performed well,my street tires not so much
The volvo was hauling ss as well,however the stock drums got cooked pretty quickly after some serious driving on big tujunga.Got to the point that my friend had to stop the car Flinstone style,basically putting his foot down
)So the volvo just needs a brake job,Im thinking installing the p1800 4 piston calipers and rotors in the front,it already has a built b20 motor from an 1800.Besides this the volvo survived.
Now the Porsche,well thats a different story.Tires are done,flat spotted,got a flat on one of the rear tires.Sorta fixed it,but will take it to my tire guy next week.I got a cracked fog light and a dent in the valance due to some head bumping with the wildlife.
My starter took a crap so we had to jump it a few times,special thanks to all that helped me
Ran into a speedtrap on friday,as many others,ouch.
Saturday we went up to sonoma where I bought a 67 123gt ,canadian model,uber rare.
On the way backby bakersfield late at night another speed trap.Well this time I wasnt so lucky.Chp officer surely wasnt enthusiastic about my little porsche,nor my international drivers license,matter of fact he was a huge $%#@!
After herrasing me a half hour of what do i do for a living,where we going ,why are we speeding-btw he never got me on the radar,i was just rolling with the traffic in the slow lane.Half hour later tow truck shows up,I knew were *&^$%.Then he calls me back to his cruiser and says to me that what do i think im doing,i have a speeding ticket and an accident in the past 2 years.I replied I payed my ticket,didnt even had to go to court and the accident wasnt my fault.He told me he is impounding my car and I can come on monday to pick it up with 2 licensed drivers.
Of course the impound yard is a chp yard so they will be charging me storage fees sat,sun and monday plus 210$ for the dispatch fee.Way to go chp,its not enough I payed thousand of dollars for registration fees for all the cars i had this year,they want more!He told us(yelled) to go stand by the tow truck.Then he takes his flash light and searches my car,without my permission of course.
The tow truck driver was a total idiot to,after I warned him to put leveling blocks to drive it onto the bed,he totally ignores it,scrapes the nose of the car,stalls the car,rolls it back and rips off my front license plate.Im like WTH??
Courtesy of the bakersfield CHP was that they took as to the next exit,told us to take our **** from the car and left us at the ihop in the middle of nowhere 11pm.
I checked the ticket and it says speeding 70+,what thats supposed to mean?The speed limit is 70mph on the 5.
I generallly dont have anything against the law enforcement ,but when Im haslled and pushed around,wrongfully searched and left in the middle of nowhere,that pisses me off.How come a young guy like me has a nice car like this was his probable cause to wrongfully search my car?Well let me tell you mr officer I work my ass off 12-15 hours a day working on cars,thats how!
After arriving to our lovely lodging,steel bench in front of an ihop,my navigator decided to cheer us up.Ran to the shell station and grabbed us a few premixed margaritas.After waiting a couple of hours,my friend Radu came to our rescue and drove us back to LA.
Overall great event with manageable losses.
Will upload photos soon.Feel free to add photos of your own.