TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 (edited) I recently took off to the USA, I thought you might like to check out some pics from my road trip. Ferrari 430 Note the dog on fuel tank :) Las Vegas cops Las Vegas __________ __________ I'm lost in the desert somewhere in Arizona :) Found it! This vet somehow drove there too... I was impressed considering the state of the roads, our Jeep was bottoming out, it must of been a very slow trip in! Funny story, we saw him on our way out of the Grand Canyon, and in the middle of no where he nailed it to over take us, and out popped a copper and pulled him over, bad luck Mr Vet. __________ Randoms cars I saw when I was out and about.. _______________________________ I rocked up to say hi to Mr Obama, but he wasn't in, I should of called before hand... _______________________________ Strange Toyota 4x4, Looks pretty cool. Check out the rear wheel archers, hydraulics? Part two, coming up..... mountain roads and awesome American muscle cars! Edited October 2, 2010 by TOMsGPTurbo Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 (edited) Part two, awesome roads, muscle cars and randoms: Muscle cars & Classics: _____________________ Out and about _____________________ I found a Toyota! Coming up: Rental car and Lexus and some more randoms I hope you're enjoying the pics :) Edited October 2, 2010 by TOMsGPTurbo Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 OK, before I get in trouble for posting so many pics, here a few more, the best for last! I wanted to hire this SRT Charger out, but not enough $$$$ I rented this instead! ___________________________________ Only do burnouts when it hails? Pimping humma As I promised, I saved the best for last... Quote
7shades Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 eeeeew you got a Chevy Malibu... You know a car is terrible when only rental fleets buy them :) Strange Toyota is an FJ Cruiser. SWB Prado that got buttraped by the ugly stick. Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 Thanks guys, what's wrong the Malibu? it was a nice car to drive Quote
altezzaclub Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 Thanks for that, nice to see a bit of homegrown USA! What was the speed limit in the those lovely twisty forests?? Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 3, 2010 Author Report Posted October 3, 2010 From memory, I think it was about 80km/h, 50mph? The roads where a lot of fun to drive, it's the Smoky mountains, basically where NASCAR was born in the day of Moonshine Runners :) Moonshine runners hotted up their cars to outrun the cops, google it it's an entertaining read. I hardly saw any hotted up toyota's. Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 3, 2010 Author Report Posted October 3, 2010 Here is a game everyone, how many Toyota's can you spot in total out of all the pics? I count 9 :) Quote
ke70dave Posted October 3, 2010 Report Posted October 3, 2010 america looks like an interesting place to visit. from all reports of mates who have visited it is nothing like i would expect. how did you find driving on the wrong side of the road? i bet thats a weird experience the first few times. Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Posted October 4, 2010 (edited) I found America was great, my parents have moved over there so it's good to have some local knowledge. Everyone I meet from LA Customs to randoms in the street where all friendly and happy to help out if needs be. Driving on the side of the road was interesting at first, seriouslly.. as soon as I drove out of the driveway of the rental car yard in Las Vegas I drove out onto incoming traffic lol, after a HOLY SHIT moment I jumped onto the proper side and was fine. I picked it up really fast, most likely the situation of driving on a HWY for hundreds of miles helped! I flew into LA, jumped onto a plane to Las Vegas straight away, stayed in Vegas for 3 nights, Drove to Grand Canyon (I put grand canyon into GPS and followed the GPS, then it told me I arrived however I was in the middle of a quiet road... had to back track, do some light 4x4'ing and some adventuring and I finally found it) After checking out grand canyon, I drove to Sedona - a beautiful town - ( http://www.sedonaaz.gov/Sedonacms/index.aspx ) the plan was to check-in in the early afternoon and have a nice relaxing night, tho I rocked up at midnight completely stuffed after getting lost in the desert, what should have been a 2hr drive turned into a 6hr drive! At 4:30am I woke up and drove to Phoenix airport, only to learn that my plane was delayed to bad weather in Miami and the next flight would be leaving late afternoon, I put on my charm and scored a flight on Learjet to Knoxville, and from there went to my ma & pa's place and crashed for a week lol I did a lot of driving, road trips every where, I would recommend it 100%. My dream is to drive from the Artic Circle through Alaska, Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America and finish at Cape Horn, jump on a yacht and sail around the world... EDIT - Sorry about the rant... ! :P Edited October 4, 2010 by TOMsGPTurbo Quote
irokin Posted October 4, 2010 Report Posted October 4, 2010 Damn, you sure do know how to have an adventure! Quote
TOMsGPTurbo Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Posted October 4, 2010 It was awesome, there is heaps of great ways to see the states without spending a lot of money. sure it helped me out that I didn't have to pay for 90% of my accommodation. but say if you roughed it sleeping in the car / B&B's etc's .... you could road trip all over the place, food & fuel are dirt cheap, you speak the language (although you have to repeat 90% of what you say due to the Australian accent). If you seriously want to do an awesome adventure - consider this: Quote
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