VERY FAST DRIVE DOWN PCH HIGHWAY 1, PART 2

PART 2 of a condensed 20 minutes of pure speed, ride as a passenger in a mid-60's badass Sting Ray through all the best curves of California PCH Highway 1 SOUTH ON THE DANGEROUS OCEAN SIDE from Monterey to Morro Bay. In two 10 minute parts, I show you the best of 120 miles, run in under 2 hours, of fun on the fabulous, beautiful, and dangerous Highway 1. Most of straighter stretches going 80-90 mph. Curves taken at about double posted. Vette has 400,000 HARD miles on it, with 240,000 miles on the motor.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• DRIVE
• SPEED
• RACE
• CORVETTE
• STINGRAY
• HIGHWAY1
• PCH
• HANDLING
• FAST
• MOTORSPORT
• DANGEROUS
• CRAZY
• QUICK
• OCEAN

[centralcoaster33]

Such a nice stretch of pavement and one of my personal faves. At least 150+ runs in my terrorizing 240! You sure do straighten out some of the biggest sweepers, I bet you could go a lot faster. And such little tire squealing... It's pass everyone or pass no one out there. You gotta commit. I'd prefer windows down and no stereo for road and engine noise.  What camera do you use and how's it do for night recording? Oh, pussy is not so bad, say you are what you eat and call the other a dick!

[SPEDKILLS]

Part 2. There is a third option to pass all or none.  Pass all, which I do if time pressed, can piss off all the numb nuts who don;t know how to drive, AND expose you to cops seeing you cross double yellows, which has happened to me. Pass none is not an option unless you want to stroke out and/or shoot dumb asses. I call the third way "catch and release". You will not complete the total trip much faster than the slower cars, BUT you will drive EVERY foot of the twisties at YOUR speed.

[centralcoaster33]

I forgot about those. I call them 'smoke brakes' (notice spelling of brakes, berry punny haha!). I hate it when it's been clear and quiet for the smoke, you start the car, and dang if some straggler doesn't cruz by! So you either wait another 5, or plan to pass the straggler before catching up to the crowd again.

[SPEDKILLS]

You got it. I originally called it "shooting the gap". It is overall the safest way to go, with almost no chance of a CHP event. Even if you see one in the middle of a 20 mph turn while doing 35 (which has happened to me) they cannot really tell. The problem is when friends in other cars don't have patience, and it breaks up my group. But I usually am alone anyway. I actually like following another car, giving me a big advantage in reading the road, and keeping him guessing how fast i am.

[SPEDKILLS]

Part 3. "Catch and release" exploits the naturally occurring gaps, some quite large and long, between groups of cars caught behind sight-seers, trucks, or chicken shits. Simply, pull over safely and where you can see open road behind you whenever you overtake a pack of slow cars. Wait for at least 2 or 3 minutes of a gap in traffic to appear before jumping out in front of the upcoming group. You then go like hell through the curves until you catch the group ahead again. Then repeat, repeat.

[SPEDKILLS]

Part 4. About sound, not only are windows down, top is down. I just like my music up loud. Remember, I'm just having a fun drive, even if it is fairly fast. I probably drive most turns at 8/10's or 9/10's max. Keep a little in reserve. Any digicam camera will work in movie with sound mode. Just keep out of the wind and tightly secured. The bigger and heavier the camera, the harder to keep still and vibration free, a reason not to use movie camera. Night recording is ok to good enough.

[centralcoaster33]

Yeah, I've lived at both ends. Having a hot girl on the other end adds a destination to the fun drive, so I did it a lot more then. I hear ya, speeding on straigts gets ya tickets, speeding on turns gets ya lateral G's. I'm in it for the G's

[SPEDKILLS]

Part 1. Thanks for your wisdom. Agree with all you said. Would drive PCH every week if I lived close, but still have run 40 or 50 times each way. I could go MUCH faster on any of the straights, but I am not "racing", just having fun, fast, unhindered, open-road drives. I rarely go over 85 or 90 even on the longest straights; something could always break on a 45 year old car, a tire could blow, or you could definitely be ID'd as grossly speeding by a cop parked on some distant peak.

[ColeNorCal]

Slow down and enjoy the drive you sack of shit

[SPEDKILLS]

I have addressed most of your issues in past comments. But that assumes you can read or understand them. I only tailgate after giving the car ahead of me time and a turnout or 2. Then its white on rice. I have had 2 top race driver friends of mine both lead and follow me on PCH many times, and have only gotten compliments from both. Like "I don't see how you go that fast without tires, brakes, or a motor". And when it comes to driving, I'd rather be a douche bag any time than a pussy.