A trip that got better every day, and the first day was AWESOME!!:banana
While the Edmonton crew (Nick – GTNick and Pro – Superfly) were off to LA and Kendall’s shop, Bob (FGT1987) had his car scheduled to go to Shadowman’s for some work but due to the cars being held up at the border for 4 days and the transport truck being in an accident, the 1 week of allocated time for Shadowman was down to 2 days. Please understand there was 3 days worth of work to be performed so obviously something had to give – not if you go by the handle Shadowman. He worked tirelessly until the wee hours of the morning for 2 days to get my Gal ready on time. I can not thank him enough for the effort he put in for me. His reputation in the GT world is well deserved. Thank-you Bill.:cheers
We flew out of cold, cold Canada on March the 4th and arrived in California where we travelled to Newhall to meet nota4re (Kendall) and his amazing family. We enjoyed their fabulous company for the evening, and then the following morning we picked up the cars for our drive up to Frazier Valley, across New Cuyama in a bit of snow [pic 1]!!, over to Santa Maria, and then we met up with Skyrex (Tom) for lunch and some pictures on the beach at Pismo [pic 2].:cool
After a fabulous lunch and photo opportunity with the boats behind us, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves on the Atascadero highway which took us to the James Dean memorial where we met up with our compatriots, Bob and his wife, who had travelled south from Shadowman’s facilities, across equally enjoyable roads. Despite the range of distances and times, we timed this meeting in the middle of nowhere to within 10 minutes of each other. While there, an older gentleman stopped to admire the cars and tell us that his friend in England has original footage of the GT40s at LeMans in the late 60s – including candid footage of the drivers getting into the cars in the pits and so on. I left contact information to try to get some of that footage. :thumbsup
Atascadero was so much fun that after we met up with Bob we returned down that road, stopping at times to make sure we had clear road ahead [pic 3]. Eventually we made our way to a quaint little resort in San Simeon where we were had a great dinner at Moonstone beach and were treated to some entertaining stories which convinced us to go for a drive on the PCH to Carmel. The next morning gave us some glorious photographs [pic 4] to commence the day before we headed north on one of the most amazing roads ever built [pic 5]. :bow
While the Edmonton crew (Nick – GTNick and Pro – Superfly) were off to LA and Kendall’s shop, Bob (FGT1987) had his car scheduled to go to Shadowman’s for some work but due to the cars being held up at the border for 4 days and the transport truck being in an accident, the 1 week of allocated time for Shadowman was down to 2 days. Please understand there was 3 days worth of work to be performed so obviously something had to give – not if you go by the handle Shadowman. He worked tirelessly until the wee hours of the morning for 2 days to get my Gal ready on time. I can not thank him enough for the effort he put in for me. His reputation in the GT world is well deserved. Thank-you Bill.:cheers
We flew out of cold, cold Canada on March the 4th and arrived in California where we travelled to Newhall to meet nota4re (Kendall) and his amazing family. We enjoyed their fabulous company for the evening, and then the following morning we picked up the cars for our drive up to Frazier Valley, across New Cuyama in a bit of snow [pic 1]!!, over to Santa Maria, and then we met up with Skyrex (Tom) for lunch and some pictures on the beach at Pismo [pic 2].:cool
After a fabulous lunch and photo opportunity with the boats behind us, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves on the Atascadero highway which took us to the James Dean memorial where we met up with our compatriots, Bob and his wife, who had travelled south from Shadowman’s facilities, across equally enjoyable roads. Despite the range of distances and times, we timed this meeting in the middle of nowhere to within 10 minutes of each other. While there, an older gentleman stopped to admire the cars and tell us that his friend in England has original footage of the GT40s at LeMans in the late 60s – including candid footage of the drivers getting into the cars in the pits and so on. I left contact information to try to get some of that footage. :thumbsup
Atascadero was so much fun that after we met up with Bob we returned down that road, stopping at times to make sure we had clear road ahead [pic 3]. Eventually we made our way to a quaint little resort in San Simeon where we were had a great dinner at Moonstone beach and were treated to some entertaining stories which convinced us to go for a drive on the PCH to Carmel. The next morning gave us some glorious photographs [pic 4] to commence the day before we headed north on one of the most amazing roads ever built [pic 5]. :bow
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