nman413

Hello everyone, I know I haven't posted much this year but I've been insanely busy. This is not necessarily on topic but I did drive the Turbo the other day and was reminded about why I love this car. Unfortunately, it seems to be leaking oil so I'll need to figure out what is going on. Jeff, wanna help?

So about a month back, I went on a road trip with the family. Here's the link to my set. I'm still adding pictures so check back for updates.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jauderh...7594175229251/



http://www.flickr.com/photos/jauderho/198665327/

On a seperate note, I remember reading in an issue of Road & Track or Car & Driver about this road off of National Trails Highway/Route 66 that the magazine had once used for a high speed run to test a Camaro? Trans-Am? There's a story around the road if I remember correctly, something about a woman convincing the gov to build and how this is visible from the highway. I think I found it, Memorial Drive on I-40 in CA but I'm not sure and I would sure love to find the story again. I'm sure a bunch of car nuts would likely know what I'm talking about.

I can't remember it and it's driving me nuts so any help would be much appreciated!!!

Air Kuul TT

Jauder,

Good to see you here buddy... and hope to see a little more of you here. BTW, the link doesn't work.

nman413

Tony, good to hear from you too. Thanks for pointing out the broken link. It should be fixed now.

TroyN

Beautiful pics, well done! I've been out to Amboy, lived in Twentynine Palms for a while, interesting area.

Leland Pate

You're looking for Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway.

Leland Pate

This was posted on Pelican Parts:

"I found it!

Using the Terraserver, Mapquest satellite images, and hints from other sites and members, I was able to find the road.

It runs north of, and parallel to, I-40 (which runs just north of, and parallel to, old Route 66). In this image, I drew a red arrow to 'Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway.' You can clearly see I-40 and Route 66 in the image. The four parallel lines are (from the top): RR track, Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway, I-40, Route 66.

It has been officially re-named 'Memorial Drive' and is in the city of Newberry Springs, California. For scale, the entire road runs about 3.5 miles in length.

I am going to check it out at the end of this month (in the Porsche, of course). I will post pics."

Leland Pate

Sadly the road is in very bad shape.
Her e are a few pictures of the road surface today:

Mike in Chi

LOL I remember it too... That article had top be about 15 years ago, Jauder

David in Chicago

We're all really old. The original piece ran in Car & Driver and they ran several top speed tests there.

In the last year or two, C&D wrote another piece confirming Leland's second post, lamenting the decline of their once-favorite test track. They also talked more about the history of the road, which was installed when the Interstate's construction cut off a little old lady from the rest of society.

Regards to all.

nman413

Mike in Chi, you are not the only old fart around My memory is going daily.

Leland, thanks for the info.

I'm pleased that I did find the right place on Google Earth namely Memorial Drive aka Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway. For those of you who have not been to the area, it's definitely worth a trip. Amboy is maybe 10 miles from there.

Speaking of which, my picture above made it to the front page of Yahoo today which was a pleasant surprise. I only found out when a co-worker sent me a screen capture.

WFO

Icerbofh,

Great pics....What camara do you have, and any other equipment details you might want to share?

thanks....

nman413

I shoot with a 20D and a 10-22mm lens. I'm thinking about moving to a 5D and a 16-35mm or a 21mm distagon.