Oct 1 - DC Euro Driving Tour
09-25-2006 | 04:06 PM
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Oct 1 - DC Euro Driving Tour
EuroSport '06 Driving Tour
Sunday,OCT. 1st, 2006
(Sept. 24 date was rained out)
Open to all Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus Cars
7:30am thru 8:15am - meet at Lotus of Washington (CriswellAutomotive) 503 Quince Orchard Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878.
8:30am - Lotus Elise technical review.
9:00am the group will head north on a spirited drive to wind up in historic Gettysburg, PA.
If interested or want more info, contact Kevin at lamboeast@yahoo.com or call him at 703-586-5136. NO EVENT REGISTATION COST. Just Arrive & Drive. We will meet at the Eisenhower Resort for brunch around 11:30am. Lunch will be paid for by the event participant.
More Info..............
Don’t you want to see everything? Even the must dedicated single marquee enthusiast has their moments of wanting to be around other cars. Absolutely!!
Automotive passions just run deeper than a single marquee or even a single nationality. Variety is the spice of life.
The EuroSport Tour was created with this thought in mind. Imagine driving through scenic roads in Maryland and Pennsylvania with such automotive delicacies as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Alfa Romeos,
Aston Martins and Lotus. Why not have a few beautiful Mercedes
or vintage BMWs along as well. Why not indeed?
The road is going to be graced with the automotive art of Europe. The mechanics of the dealership are going to present us with a Lotus Elise technical review. The group will head north on a spirited drive to wind up in historic Gettysburg, PA. Along the way we will be making several pit stops to take in the splendor of everyone’s cars and the beautiful fall scenery. Once in Gettysburg, we will meet up at the Eisenhower Resort for lunch at their Richard’s Restaurant and Lounge. Or simply hang out with fellow car enthusiasts and swap stories. The goal of the day is to enjoy everybody’s company and their cars.
Such an occasion should be about fellowship and not money. There is NO EVENT REGISTRATION COST. All event expenses will be paid by the participant as we go. We estimate that lunch will be around $18 a head. If one only wants to make the drive up and hang out, then this is fine by us and we would love to have you. For people wanting to have lunch with us, please send an email to lamboeast@yahoo.com to let us know you want to eat lunch. This will help us in organizing the event.
If you have any questions, please call Kevin Sims at 703-586-5136. Email is the best method of contacting me.
Let’s do our best to beautify the roads leading to Gettysburg, PA.
Sunday,OCT. 1st, 2006
(Sept. 24 date was rained out)
Open to all Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus Cars
7:30am thru 8:15am - meet at Lotus of Washington (CriswellAutomotive) 503 Quince Orchard Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20878.
8:30am - Lotus Elise technical review.
9:00am the group will head north on a spirited drive to wind up in historic Gettysburg, PA.
If interested or want more info, contact Kevin at lamboeast@yahoo.com or call him at 703-586-5136. NO EVENT REGISTATION COST. Just Arrive & Drive. We will meet at the Eisenhower Resort for brunch around 11:30am. Lunch will be paid for by the event participant.
More Info..............
Don’t you want to see everything? Even the must dedicated single marquee enthusiast has their moments of wanting to be around other cars. Absolutely!!
Automotive passions just run deeper than a single marquee or even a single nationality. Variety is the spice of life.
The EuroSport Tour was created with this thought in mind. Imagine driving through scenic roads in Maryland and Pennsylvania with such automotive delicacies as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Alfa Romeos,
Aston Martins and Lotus. Why not have a few beautiful Mercedes
or vintage BMWs along as well. Why not indeed?
The road is going to be graced with the automotive art of Europe. The mechanics of the dealership are going to present us with a Lotus Elise technical review. The group will head north on a spirited drive to wind up in historic Gettysburg, PA. Along the way we will be making several pit stops to take in the splendor of everyone’s cars and the beautiful fall scenery. Once in Gettysburg, we will meet up at the Eisenhower Resort for lunch at their Richard’s Restaurant and Lounge. Or simply hang out with fellow car enthusiasts and swap stories. The goal of the day is to enjoy everybody’s company and their cars.
Such an occasion should be about fellowship and not money. There is NO EVENT REGISTRATION COST. All event expenses will be paid by the participant as we go. We estimate that lunch will be around $18 a head. If one only wants to make the drive up and hang out, then this is fine by us and we would love to have you. For people wanting to have lunch with us, please send an email to lamboeast@yahoo.com to let us know you want to eat lunch. This will help us in organizing the event.
If you have any questions, please call Kevin Sims at 703-586-5136. Email is the best method of contacting me.
Let’s do our best to beautify the roads leading to Gettysburg, PA.
09-25-2006 | 05:34 PM
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88' Carrera from Dorkiphus Board in the DC area had this to say about the tour route:
If you couldn't attend this event (on Sept 24th) then you missed out on a fun time.
This is the reason I bought my Porsche--HARD--I MEAN HARD driving through twist and turns.
It would have been fun to see some other european cars, but they had their resale values at stake with the off and on rain sprinkles. (It was nearly all Porsche except for one Alfa Romeo and one Viper).
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If you couldn't attend this event (on Sept 24th) then you missed out on a fun time.
This is the reason I bought my Porsche--HARD--I MEAN HARD driving through twist and turns.
It would have been fun to see some other european cars, but they had their resale values at stake with the off and on rain sprinkles. (It was nearly all Porsche except for one Alfa Romeo and one Viper).
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And a wonderful time was had by all!
This was my first real outing with my 928. I've only had it since May, and since I spent almost the entire summer in Europe and China, I just haven't had the opportunity to really run the car properly. As I had an engagement in New york City on Saturday night, I decided to forego sleep and drive down from there. I left NY at 2AM and arrived in Gaithersburg, MD, around 7... just time for my 9th cup of coffee before the other cars began arriving. What a splendid array! Not only were there lots of Porsches, including 3 928s: a GT, an S4 and my humble, yet proud unlettered '82, loads of 911s and their offspring, a fairly new Cayman and the organizer's 944 Turbo; there were several Lotus Elises (fortunately not four, else some horrible puns would ensue), one vintage Elite and first two, then three Ferraris (one joined us enroute): 2 308s and a brand spanking new F430.
After meeting, greeting and shmoozing and snacking on the supplied bagles and coffee for a bit, we were given route directions, ala a reall rally, and off we went, into the wilds of north central Maryland, on our way to Gettysburg, PA, which is, as the crow flies, just about 60 miles. Let it be known, here and now, we did not fly as the crow does. Although I kept having to reset my tripmeter, I believe we traveled something like 150 miles, through an excellent mix of freeways and byways, hills and curves, and turns for which the very name curve is an embarrasment, at speeds sometimes approaching more the upper than the lower limits of the car.
Being without navigator, I chose to follow the leader in his 944, another chap's 928 GT and, soon, a Carrera since, as soon as we turned onto the Interstate, it became a free-for-all road-race or, perhaps more politely, a sorting-out run up to the point we turned off the Interstate and onto the first of a series of delightfully twisty roads, only occasionally impeded by the odd Sunday driver, including one chap pulling a horse-trailer who seemed quite intent upon maintaining the lowest possible speed without actually going backwards.
There were moments, however, when the road in front was clear, my radar detector blissfully silent and I set about discovering just what this beast was I had bought. It's a little scary not knowing the limits of adhesion of one's ride, and a public road is, argueably, not the best place to discover it; I guessed it would be similar to the 928 GT and the Carrera I was following, and I did know a bit about how to take a line through a corner, so off we went! Heel and toe through the curves (a bit difficult, but do-able. with an automatic) and pedal to the floor on the straights, well into the 3-digit country, particularly on the downhill runs. There was nothing insane, like passing each other on curves, just a good clean game of high-speed tag
We all caught up together at about midpoint for a pit stop, then off we went again, but this time, several of us got lost, then separated from each other, so that I ended up self-navigating for the rest of the trip... not so much fun trying to read the directions through newly-bought progressive bifocal lenses (bad, bad choice!), one or two of which were, it turns out, minorly incorrect, which added a bit of spice, negotiate the turns at speed enough to keep them from being boring and stay out of the face of the citizens on the road.
I did eventually hook up with a couple of the other drivers and we made the final run at speed, 25 mph, through the town of Gettysburg and out to the spot where we were ending the run with a planned nice lunch together, the reality of which was that the restaurant had closed at 12 and the first of us arrived after 1, so we just overwhelmed the poor woman running the deli, had some nice sandwiches and fruit, and spent some time looking again at the cars who had made this run with us. And as the sun sank slowly in the western sky... off we went, variously to home or back down the road from whence we had just come.
This was my first real outing with my 928. I've only had it since May, and since I spent almost the entire summer in Europe and China, I just haven't had the opportunity to really run the car properly. As I had an engagement in New york City on Saturday night, I decided to forego sleep and drive down from there. I left NY at 2AM and arrived in Gaithersburg, MD, around 7... just time for my 9th cup of coffee before the other cars began arriving. What a splendid array! Not only were there lots of Porsches, including 3 928s: a GT, an S4 and my humble, yet proud unlettered '82, loads of 911s and their offspring, a fairly new Cayman and the organizer's 944 Turbo; there were several Lotus Elises (fortunately not four, else some horrible puns would ensue), one vintage Elite and first two, then three Ferraris (one joined us enroute): 2 308s and a brand spanking new F430.
After meeting, greeting and shmoozing and snacking on the supplied bagles and coffee for a bit, we were given route directions, ala a reall rally, and off we went, into the wilds of north central Maryland, on our way to Gettysburg, PA, which is, as the crow flies, just about 60 miles. Let it be known, here and now, we did not fly as the crow does. Although I kept having to reset my tripmeter, I believe we traveled something like 150 miles, through an excellent mix of freeways and byways, hills and curves, and turns for which the very name curve is an embarrasment, at speeds sometimes approaching more the upper than the lower limits of the car.
Being without navigator, I chose to follow the leader in his 944, another chap's 928 GT and, soon, a Carrera since, as soon as we turned onto the Interstate, it became a free-for-all road-race or, perhaps more politely, a sorting-out run up to the point we turned off the Interstate and onto the first of a series of delightfully twisty roads, only occasionally impeded by the odd Sunday driver, including one chap pulling a horse-trailer who seemed quite intent upon maintaining the lowest possible speed without actually going backwards.
There were moments, however, when the road in front was clear, my radar detector blissfully silent and I set about discovering just what this beast was I had bought. It's a little scary not knowing the limits of adhesion of one's ride, and a public road is, argueably, not the best place to discover it; I guessed it would be similar to the 928 GT and the Carrera I was following, and I did know a bit about how to take a line through a corner, so off we went! Heel and toe through the curves (a bit difficult, but do-able. with an automatic) and pedal to the floor on the straights, well into the 3-digit country, particularly on the downhill runs. There was nothing insane, like passing each other on curves, just a good clean game of high-speed tag
We all caught up together at about midpoint for a pit stop, then off we went again, but this time, several of us got lost, then separated from each other, so that I ended up self-navigating for the rest of the trip... not so much fun trying to read the directions through newly-bought progressive bifocal lenses (bad, bad choice!), one or two of which were, it turns out, minorly incorrect, which added a bit of spice, negotiate the turns at speed enough to keep them from being boring and stay out of the face of the citizens on the road.
I did eventually hook up with a couple of the other drivers and we made the final run at speed, 25 mph, through the town of Gettysburg and out to the spot where we were ending the run with a planned nice lunch together, the reality of which was that the restaurant had closed at 12 and the first of us arrived after 1, so we just overwhelmed the poor woman running the deli, had some nice sandwiches and fruit, and spent some time looking again at the cars who had made this run with us. And as the sun sank slowly in the western sky... off we went, variously to home or back down the road from whence we had just come.