Players Run our Nsx DNF.

prova4re

prova4re

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We had a hard time on the run this year, We had troubles starting the car on the 2nd day.
It was stalling out at 100mph+, we lost a cap to the header sensors and had to find a all night Home Depot to get a couple of brass fittings.
Then Nick blew a tire, so one of the chase trucks picked him up.
We couldn't get a tire anywere, so we had the Tire Rack ship us one to Denver, then we took off the rim and it was cracked.
We tried to find someone to fix it but had no luck.
So he left it in Aspen to be picked up later.

The first day I rode in a Murcielago (sp) the 2nd day in Nicks car.
The 3rd day in Dado's 500 hp M3, the 4th day I dove a Ferrari TR through Kanasas flat out 178mph.
The 5th day in a modifed 930.
on the 6th day rode in a yellow GT3, and had some fun with a 360 stradle.
The 7th day I rode in a 360 spyder, and a Dodge Hemi wagon.

When I was driving from KC to denver we hit hail, dust storms, wicked thunder storms, high winds, and tons of tumble weeds at 150mph+.

We had a track day in Topeka, and I rode in a M3 and we chased 2 F40's around the track for ten laps.

No tickets for me this year, or jail time.

Some other problems were.
Magusta blew a tire DNF.
Yellow viper out with steering problems.
Blue Corvette blown motor DNF.
Yellow GT3 blew a tire.
SL 55 blew a tire.
350z blew a tire
General Lee needed new wheel bearings.
Testerossa needed a new battery.
Prodrive SUV concept car was impounded by police, for no plates, no ins, no sn number.
996 broke a steering linkage, then he lost his clutch, and had to power shift the rest of the way.

993 hit a bird at 150+ shattered the windshield, got a new one installed and it was too small. Then he blew the motor on the track, when he missed a shift. He shipped the car to LA and installed a new motor, so he could finish the race.

Some of my pics.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286559073
 
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Dang Bry.. You get to have all of the fun...
Glad everything went relatively well.
Nice pics.
Len
 
Sweet... we saw the run in Kansas City and a friend and I made the run out of KC to Topeka with the group but stopped off in Lawrence, KS.

It was a lot of fun. :cool:
 
Wow! That sounds like quite the trip!

Great pix! Love the S7! And a Vector.. cool!
 
Damn, I wish you would have had a TR wheel on there so I could have saved the day ;)

I really tried to avoid next day shipping you guys a tire too. I bet I called 50 places just to try and find something close, but you were in an...ummm interesting area at the time :D
 
I ran across the group at a rest stop in Elkhart, Indiana. Of course Bryan was too popular to talk to me, so I just looked at the cars and moved on. Maybe next time I can get his autograph. LOL!! :D
 
The Enzo didn't make it on the run this year, the dealer in Denver started the car when it was cold a reved it up, it bent a few valves. They had to fly in a crew from Ferrari to pull the engine and fix it. The same guy has a 70+ car collection, he owns the S7 that joined us in Denver. He drove it hard and fast, until it started blowing oil all over the Ferraris behind him. They had to tow it to LA for repairs. DNF
Some one in Denver was driving a 959 on the street, in the rain and stoped to talk to us.
The Vector showed up at the end of the race for 2 hours, they slapped some stickers on it like it was in the race, but it only made it four blocks before it over heated.

The Vector has a brake handle on the side, that your hand pulls up on.

Next year I want Tire Rack to sponsor my car, there were 11 people who had tire blow out. We went from cold weather to hot in a few hours, most people didn't check there psi and paid the price.

We got it bad in Kansass, the police gave us an escort out of town, then 3 hours later they were waiting for us everywhere.
8 people went to jail, most got out after paying 500 bucks.
One person spent 3 days there for avoiding the police he was going over180+.

At one point I was in the 500+ hp BMW M3, and we were in the lead when we had to pull over to rotate our tires.
When we pulled up to the Goodyear tire, 3 guy's came out and started going crazy shouting your the guys.
They had been listing to the police scanner and heard that we had been clocked at 184mph. The police were setting up a road block 2 miles ahead for us.
Good thing we got off!

They couldn't rotate our tires because our rims were to big, so they sent us around the road block to another tire shop.
They took pics with us and the car, and made us sign autographs.
I was a rock star for a day.LOL
 
prova4re said:
...Some one in Denver was driving a 959 on the street, in the rain and stoped to talk to us....

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...They took pics with us and the car, and made us sign autographs.
I was a rock star for a day.LOL
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Did you get any pictures of the 959?? That would be the car I wanted to see. What color was it? The guy had be be a pretty cool and devoted car nut to be out in the rain with a Porsche 959.

(*Bryan....can I have an autograph? :D )
 
prova4re said:
We got it bad in Kansass, the police gave us an escort out of town, then 3 hours later they were waiting for us everywhere.
8 people went to jail, most got out after paying 500 bucks.
One person spent 3 days there for avoiding the police he was going over180+.

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Yeah that was interesting... full police escort out of the city but once we hit lawrence people were getting pulled over so that's why we started heading back home.


I was lucky no cops pulled us over on our way out of town with the Run because we were blowing red lights like everyone else, doing 80 downtown, and weren't officially in the group. I had two cops on my ass the whole escort but they didn't say a word.



:D
 
Who needs pics when he gives you a ride.:D
I did get a few pics but it was not with my camera.
Meeyatch1
You didn't stay around long, whats up with that?
How did you find us at that stop?
I did see about 50 s200's at the Tire Rack as we passed by.
Then we got chased down by a few of them.

I did see a Black and a White Nsx outside of the KC hotel, one of them was a guy named slashmatt. There must have been 200 people at the hotel waiting, including the police 2 blocks away shooting radar.
They nailed 14 of us, until someone stood 1 block ahead of them with a sign that said........ slow down pigs ahead.
It was funny as hell, until the police found out about it and gave him a ticket for obstruction of justice. I have it all on video.lol
 
the White/Black was me... here we are getting ready to take off with the Run:

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then someone got a shot of my car the night before when we got in:

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good times :cool:
 
The 9 million dollar woman was sporting a 8 million dollar ring, on her million dollar body. :eek:
 
Day 1
I showed up to the USS Intrepid. were we were starting the race, there were a few Canadian's there standing around waiting for there cars to show up.
There was a semi truck there that had the Eleanor and a Ford mustang on it ready to go. At first glance they looked like some one had done a nice restoration job on them. But when they fired them up and backed it of the truck, you could tell they mean bissiness. They were hand built from the ground up. Big brakes, lowered, custom frame work, tuned engine, etc.
This was not my fathers Oldsmobile if you know what I mean. For 100.000 to 150.000 you can have one custom built to your own specs. The guys who built these works of art, were the coolest guys on the rally,

I was checking out the Eleanor..... gone in 60 second's car, when a few big.....no.....HUGE body guards brush me aside. I looked over and there was Nicholas Cage checking out the car.
They fired it up for him, he checked it out and said awesome car then went back to work.
Turns out they were shooting his new movie on the same aircraft carrier that we were starting our race on.
They would not let us take pics, as he was in costume at the time. Sorry your just going to have to believe me on this one.

This year there were a few Canadian's besides me, all from Ontario, and they all brought there a game.
Red 360, black 996, silver 996, yellow Mercilago.
A few of the guy's were held up at customs and missed there flight's.
We sat around waiting for the truck to show up as people started to trickle in.
Some of the cars at the start were.

4 360's Yellow, red, blue, and black.
360 spider red.
F40lm red.
F40 red
355 spider yellow.
348 spider blue.
456 grey.
Testerrosa black
308 red
2 Mercilago's green, and yellow.
Diablo yellow
Bmw M3 silver, Dado's yellow M3.
Bmw Z3
Bmw Z4
3 MB SL 55's all silver.
Nsx TT red.
General Lee.
12 Smart car's.
Viper black.
3 996's silver, black, yellow
4 993's silver, black, yellow, blue
968 white
Boxster
Hot Rod silver
Mini Cooper black
Magusta bronze
Prodrive SUV grey
Z06 red
Shelby GT silver
Lincoln black
Dodge Hemi wagon black
And they were more still coming in when we left for drinks.
 
Day 2 the start

Day 2 the start
I was running late after getting in at 430am and all hungover, so I slapped on my costume to get in the spirit of things and garbed cab it to the pier.
When I pulled up there were about 200 people out front waiting for the start.
Don't you people have jobs?

Turns out Arie Luyendyk Jr was not going to make it, so I jumped in his seat for the first leg of the rally.
In a brand new yellow Murcielago, I tried to get on the pier to join my ride but security would not let me in.
I guess they didn't like my Hanson brothers outfit,
So I stood out front to film the start in the middle of the intersection, next to one of New York finest.
The cars were tearing out of there, the crowd went nuts when the General Lee came out and hit his horns.
The yellow lambo was the last car out, he did a burn out right next to the police that were holding up traffic, then he stooped in the middle of the intersection to pick me up.
The crowd went nuts, the NYPD guy's were not to impressed.

We were the last ones through time square and got a little lost, so we made up some time with all that hp under the hood.
A half hour later we caught up to a good size pack, and slowed down a bit.
We were leading the group coming over a hill when we got nailed, 102 in a 65. Ouch.

We watched about 20+ cars pass us, as we were getting are awards for stupidity.
We thanked the officer and were on our way again, when we passed a rest stop and there were the 20+ cars with all the drivers standing there clapping and cheering us on.
We stopped and traded stories with them, and we were off again.
2 hours later we were leading the pack coming over a hill when it happened again, this time we were really moving along. We saw him hiding at the last second we jammed on the brakes, too late he pulled out behind us.
He passed everyone else and pulled us over, we stopped on the shoulder. Just then the car's idle started jumping around from running so hard, the cop thought we were going to take off so he got on the loud speaker and started yelling at us to shut down the engine.
We didn't hear him, so he came along side our car with his gun pointed at me.
The window's were tinted and rolled down 1/4 of the way, so he started yelling at us...show me your hands!
Turn off the engine! We shut it off but then we couldn't roll down the windows. That pissed the cop right off, Show me your hands NOW!!
Roll down your windows NOW!!!
We got the windows down, so he put his gun away.

What the hell is going on here?
Who gave you permission to speed on my highway?
We tried to explain to him that we were a couple of dumb Cunucks travailing through, but he was not buying it.
Do you know how fast you were going?
We said we were going 140.
He just stared at us with the most puzzled look on his face.
Until we told him that are Speedo was in kilometers per hour, and we had know idea what that was in mph.
He went back to his car and checked his Speedo, and told us we should not go over 119kl that is the speed limit. Then he gave us some more awards to add to are growing collection, he chewed us out for a few minutes and told us they had towed 4 cars already and slow down.
It was good advice so we took it easy, as NY is a little to close to Canada.

Everyone was waiting at the next toll both for us, cheering and waving at us .

We stopped and waited for the rest of the cars to show up. When the Testerrosa battery went dead, everyone had started to leave so we stayed to help.
He had some cables, but we could not figure out were the battery was on our car,
So I flagged down a pick up truck and we jumped it.
We made it to the border (home) in short time, skipped across to Niagara on the lake. For a helicopter ride around the falls, and a nice dinner.
I then joined Nick in our Nsx for the trip to Cleveland, the people at the toll booths warned us that the police we setting up a speed trap to catch us.
So we took it slow for the next 10 miles.
Getting back into the US was a pain for some of the drivers, one guy was delayed for 3 hours as they searched the car and ran vin numbers.
A few people stayed on the US side waiting for us to come back, because they were from other countries and didn't want to take a chance on getting back in.
The road to Cleveland was dull and boring, we avg, 120mph most of the way.
We got close to Cleveland when we had some engine trouble, the cap that goes on the header came off and was shooting flames in the engine bay.
We were getting really bad gas mileage, lees than 150 per tank full it should have been 300 per.
We had to find a all night Home Depot to get a few brass fittings for the headers.
I went in to get them, and was stopped right away by security. They thought I was going to rob the place, because I still had my costume on.
They escorted me through the building then to the check out and out the door.
The car was to hot to fix so we drove to the Ritz and parked it for the night.
 
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The last yellow car was the Lambo that was waiting to pick me up.
It didn't break down.
 
prova4re said:
The last yellow car was the Lambo that was waiting to pick me up.
It didn't break down.
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Not bad to catch a ride in a Murcielago....well done. :)

Hey, Bryan...you going to be out of town anytime in the next two weeks??
 

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