California St. Rt. 1. Big Sur country.
Yeah, that's a rental minivan (Dodge Grand Cara), but I still did it, and I'm claiming it. Sue me. 
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June 30, 2010 9:41 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
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June 30, 2010 10:02 p.m. JeepinMatt HalfDork
You stole another rental minivan? How many are left on that list?
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July 1, 2010 7:52 a.m. pilotbraden Reader
The road wasn't packed with 18mph RVs?
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July 1, 2010 8:21 a.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
No, just rental minivans. Ha ha.
Actually, conventional wisdom states that the fastest vehicle you can drive is often a rental car! -
July 1, 2010 8:28 a.m. modernbeat HalfDork
Did you just do the San Francisco to L.A. portion? Or did you start further north?
I've done it a number of times. Best one was a February drive in a Dodge 300 Hemi rental.
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July 1, 2010 8:30 a.m. pilotbraden Reader
I drove that road in 1989 in a 1965 Coupe de Ville. I made some passes of big groups of RVs holding up 5-15 cars of non drivers. They would sit there at 15mph and not pass when there was no reason not to. The old 429 was sounding good!
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July 1, 2010 11:09 a.m. Autolex HalfDork
My dad's graduation (high school) gift to me was to fly us (he and I) to vegas and rent us a convertible mustang with unlimited mileage.
We did vegas -> L.A. at night, like 5ish hours if I remember correctly.
spent 3 days driving up the california coast on hwy 1 visiting family friends in ojai along the way.
Easily my fondest memories of my (still living) father, now and forever.
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July 1, 2010 11:17 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
Autolex wrote:
spent 3 days driving up the california coast on hwy 1 visiting family friends in ojai along the way.
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July 1, 2010 12:34 p.m. PeterAK Dork
Drove SF to LA and took the fun route in my brother's '87 4000 Quattro over my spring break in '96. Good times.
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July 1, 2010 1:44 p.m. MadScientistMatt Dork
I drove that one in a rented Stratus myself. Great road if you're not trying to make it to the airport in time and running way too late...
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July 1, 2010 1:56 p.m. dyintorace SuperDork
Last week we drove from SF to Muir Woods and then on to Stinson Beach on 1, and also in a rental. Brand new Taurus with flappy paddles. My wife and kids weren't thrilled, but I had a lot of fun!! What a road.
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July 1, 2010 1:57 p.m. racerfink Reader
Was it a man van edition?
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July 1, 2010 9:49 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
Well, it did have that Chrysler copy of the "Tiptronic", whatever it's called..I used to think these "manual automatics" were silly, but after playing with the ones in the van and my BIL's 06 Outback this week, I gotta say that if I ever lose a leg, I'll be looking for one.
We flew into San Jose, rode over to the coast from there, and took it south to Hwy. 46. (Fam reunion, doing the Paso Robles wine country for my aunt's 70th b-day). Also had enough time to visit Laguna Seca.
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July 1, 2010 9:53 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
JeepinMatt wrote:
You stole another rental minivan? How many are left on that list?
I could tell you, but then my customers would start going somewhere else..
(I was gonna hotlink Nick Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds" here, but can't figure out how to find the pic properties on my mom's Apple)
