Great Boxster day

[pecivil]

My 10 year old and I went on an extremely nice 2 hour ride today, up to the peak of our local "mountain". 14 miles of the twisties in the exteme, not much traffic, hot and sunny, top down, and 300 horses.....

We were all smiles. It never ceases to amaze me how well the car handles, how balanced it is and how well it stays "stuck". The uphill portion was fun, I kept it mostly in 3rd, with some downshifts, but going down the 4000 feet, the degree of grade and very tight turns was WAY fun. I kept it in 2nd mostly, using the tranny to help keep the downhill speed down, revving between 4 to 6 k rpms all the way down. We got stuck behind slower cars only a couple of times, and we had several nicely cooporative people who used the turnouts to let us zoom past.

San Diego people!! Do any of you to Palomar Mtn runs?? Early Saturday mornings are a great time to really drive your baby on roads that were meant for Porsches.
We went up the 78, through Ramona, up to the 79, then took the 76 to the increadible S7 hwy. Then on to the S6 back down to the 76.

2 hours that I promise will be the best time you could possible spend with your clothes on.

It would be a "cool" thing to get some guys to do this run on some type of regular basis. Saw lots of bikes (of course) and 2 Boxsters, one 993, and one 996 during our drive.

[r9i8c7k]

I am jealous...I wanted to get out for a ride but I had a bedroom to paint.

[pecivil]

I have done this run 3 times now since we moved to SD from the "OC". It was way more fun than the ortega, and equally as fun as Kanan Dume Road from the 101 to the coast at Malibu.

When I think of all the times I have wanted to go and drive these roads and stoped and thought, no it takes too much time and I have all this stuff to do....."hunnydoos" as wifey calls them. Then you free up some time and go and remember how much fun it is.

I wanna go every day.

[r9i8c7k]

I have added to my "To Do List" of Boxster runs. Thanks for the info.

[pecivil]

no problem,....perhaps an interesting idea for a permanent thread would be to post your "sweet to drive roads in my area"

of course there will be those who getting to "talk" about their prime driving playgrounds vil be difficult.

ve have our vays of making you talk......

[7th gear]

Originally Posted by pecivil

no problem,....perhaps an interesting idea for a permanent thread would be to post your "sweet to drive roads in my area"

hi check link
http://986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9229