Suwipin

Thanx Matt and Sonia for arranging today's drive. It was a great gathering for Porsche owners from the Bay area... and we want to thank you, Matt

Here are some pics that I took today:

Some group pictures:

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Before you get mad at me Ray (Calvo), I just wanna let you know that this is just a parade lap

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Suwipin

Leaving Laguna Seca:

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Some of the bikers that we met along the way:

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Some pics from the drive to Big Sur:

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Some pics of Kim's car:

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Our leader's car:

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stinky

Lucky dogs. The California coastline is some of the most beautiful I've ever seen.

H20NOO

Pin,

Great shots! Thanks for taking those and posting them so quickly. I also want to thank your passenger for taking all those GREAT shots while you were driving

Matt

DJF1

Great Pics as usual Pin. Maybe you should be appointed the official photog of the board

Looking at your pics, can't help but feeling jealous...looking closer...hmmmm all these spoilers were up! Speeding much on the twistes?

Thanks again Pin! <img src="graemlins/r.gif" border="0" alt="[king]" />

bbeckmann

More pics.

This is more like a Terry A. gallery with a little Kim thrown in since I was sandwiched in between them at the track. All great fun!

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hal m

Yes, Thanks to Matt and Sonia.
I had a fantastic time and it was wonderful getting together with so many other p-car fanatics.

I just want to know how they arranged the police escort at the start of the drive!!!

Hal

H20NOO

Hal,

That was the strangest thing I've seen in a while! 2 San Jose PD cruisers were passing as we pulled out of the Starbucks parking lot in the morning. One of them turned on his rooftop light bar and they basically gave us an escort to the city limits. VERY STRANGE INDEED!
Maybe someone tipped them off to the rather large gathering of Porsches and they decided to apply a little traffic management and "deterrence". I had my camcorder mounted backwards on my roll bar which probably made them even more nervous. Whatever the case, I was really happy to see them hang a u-turn when we got out of town.

MC

H20NOO

This is how our drive started...

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grouchy

Always great to start the day with pace cars?

alex_95_cab

I'd like to add my thanks to Matt and Sonia for organising this outing. My wife and I had a great time. And it was great to meet so many porschophiles in person.
Now if I can just convince my wife to let me upgrade to a turbo-S!!

A.J. - 95 993

Before you get mad at me Ray (Calvo), I just wanna let you know that this is just a parade lap

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Great pics, Suwipin! I was wondering about the pic of the "parade lap" - what's up with all the tire marks headed for the inside of the turn?? Do that many cars spin that direction? The barrier doesn't look like it has been hit. Was there a motocross event there??

Jim

That turn is tricky, it's pretty fast, you've just crested a steep hill and it is not banked at all. Many Porsche owners will have experienced the back end swapping with the front, and yes, the inside wall will be in danger.

Suwipin

Hi Danny,

Thanx for the nice comments

I'm pretty sure that once you move to B.C., you'll have a much much more scenic and enjoyable drives than us here.

Hi Matt, Hal:

Yeah I was surprised that we got a police escort at the beginning of our drive, what a pleasant surprise

Hi AJ:

Here's a pic right before the turn in of Turn-6

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I think Jimmy's description is accurate... I always feel (not on the parade lap ) that I was a bit jerky on that turn.