Capacious Boot
Active Member
Had a good day yesterday...
I've been on a motorcycle trip from my home in Oregon down through California, and yesterday I was riding down Highway 1, down the Pacific coast from Monterey south to San Simeon. I had never been there before, but I had heard about it many times and it looked very fun on the map, so I was pretty excited.
I was really feeling good when I passed the 'Curvy road next 73 miles' sign, but as I pressed on, I was bogged down by seemingly endless traffic. The road was awesome, but the rolling roadblock was keeping the speed low enough to suck all the fun out of it. Finally I caught some lucky breaks and made some semi-legal passes and I was relatively in the clear.
At this point the road was still amazingly twisty, and I was having a blast carving it up. Then I saw a striking red sports car on the road on the opposite side of the ravine from me, followed by a green one and blue one. As I rounded the bend and they came past me on a short straight I realized that they were a Ferrari 612, an Aston V8 Vantage and some kind of Porsche 911.
So I was temporarily awestruck by that sight (being from Oregon I never see anything interesting car-wise), but I managed to stay on the road and continued on, thinking that I should turn around and try to follow them. About then I see a McLaren Mercedes SLR and a Lamborghini Gallardo (bright green) come around the next turn.
After seeing that I decided I had to try and chase them down, so I pulled over at the next little turn off and sped off after them. After about four minutes of apex strafing I had caught up to the Lambo, just as the first cars were pulling off the road into a lookout point. All of the hot cars stopped and I went by, oggling, and turned around at the next wide spot, then went by again, oggling.
It looked like it might have been one of those fantasy car tours, being as it was such a perfect group of supercars, all of them in their fitting colors and everything. Or it could have just been a bunch of rich guys thrashing their cars up the coast. Either way, it was quite a thrill for someone like me from a small town to get to tear up a great road after some awesome cars. Just thought I'd share.
I've been on a motorcycle trip from my home in Oregon down through California, and yesterday I was riding down Highway 1, down the Pacific coast from Monterey south to San Simeon. I had never been there before, but I had heard about it many times and it looked very fun on the map, so I was pretty excited.
I was really feeling good when I passed the 'Curvy road next 73 miles' sign, but as I pressed on, I was bogged down by seemingly endless traffic. The road was awesome, but the rolling roadblock was keeping the speed low enough to suck all the fun out of it. Finally I caught some lucky breaks and made some semi-legal passes and I was relatively in the clear.
At this point the road was still amazingly twisty, and I was having a blast carving it up. Then I saw a striking red sports car on the road on the opposite side of the ravine from me, followed by a green one and blue one. As I rounded the bend and they came past me on a short straight I realized that they were a Ferrari 612, an Aston V8 Vantage and some kind of Porsche 911.
So I was temporarily awestruck by that sight (being from Oregon I never see anything interesting car-wise), but I managed to stay on the road and continued on, thinking that I should turn around and try to follow them. About then I see a McLaren Mercedes SLR and a Lamborghini Gallardo (bright green) come around the next turn.
After seeing that I decided I had to try and chase them down, so I pulled over at the next little turn off and sped off after them. After about four minutes of apex strafing I had caught up to the Lambo, just as the first cars were pulling off the road into a lookout point. All of the hot cars stopped and I went by, oggling, and turned around at the next wide spot, then went by again, oggling.
It looked like it might have been one of those fantasy car tours, being as it was such a perfect group of supercars, all of them in their fitting colors and everything. Or it could have just been a bunch of rich guys thrashing their cars up the coast. Either way, it was quite a thrill for someone like me from a small town to get to tear up a great road after some awesome cars. Just thought I'd share.