Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Fwd: Fun Drive - NFC What is faster than a tank on an unpaved road....

[Ferrarisimo [at] hotmail.com (ferrarisimo]

Willi:

The Skywalk is 4000' and you are half a football field OVER the edge.

No beers allowed.

Scottie

On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:29 AM, red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: red5hilser [at] aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Fun Drive - NFC What is faster than a tank  
> on an unpaved road....
>
>
> Hey Wacko: $75.00 to stand on the 'Skywalk?' And I always was led  
> to believe that Custer died for our sins! If you want the same  
> effect on the cheap, climb and summit Mt. Whitney (14,495'), go to  
> the eastern edge of?the summit next to the stone hut, sit down and  
> dangle your?boots over the edge and look down. You will see nothing  
> but air between your boots for 1,600 vertical feet. After I coaxed  
> my balls back down from where my tonsils used to be, I had the can  
> of beer that I smuggled up in my rucksack and started down.
>
> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LtWacko [at] aol.com
>
>
>
> No Ferrari content but I have to share....
>
> In between business meetings, I decided to visit my mother in   
> Phoenix.  Late
> last night, we were trying to decide if we should make the  trip to  
> the new
> Skywalk at the west end of the Grand Canyon.  Was it really  worth  
> the 5 hour
> drive and the $75 per person to stand on a glass platform over  the  
> Canyon?
> Well, at 6 am this morning, we left Mom's place in my  rental PT  
> Cruiser.  Most
> fun on the first part of the drive was almost  getting killed each  
> time trying
> to pass on hwy 60. Damn slow and worse with  the A/C going.  As  
> some of you
> know, the best/only true access is  on a 20 mile gravel road just  
> before
> getting there.  Not just any gravel  road.  We are talking rally  
> type switch
> backs
> and elevation changes made  for a...  RENTAL CAR!!!  I would only  
> punish a well
> prepared rally car  or my rental at the rate I was going.  My  
> mother was
> already sort of used  to my driving on the track and highway.   
> Never anything
> really crazy and  nothing compared to what I put her through  
> today.  Now I
> didn't
> totally  scare my mother the entire way.  It was an unfamiliar road  
> so I drove
> below  50% of being an idiot...   most of the time.  I gave my  
> mother a
> taste of out of control/in control slides.  She was screaming in  
> terror at  the
> hand brake induced power slides.  I gave up after a dozen.  She   
> just couldn't
> stomach them.  Cresting the hills and getting airborne though  got her
> laughing.  God bless her!  Anyway, being respectful to the  land  
> and the owners,
> I
> kept most of the "rally style" driving discreet.  It  didn't take  
> much to have
> "fun" in a PT Cruiser on that road.  My only  regret is that I  
> forgot that I
> could record the excursion both ways on my  camera.  Anyone ever  
> tape themselves
>
> on that road?  Similar  experiences?  Funny watching all (very few  
> in my way)
> the driver owned  vehicles very cautiously proceeding as I covered  
> them in
> dust as I passed.   Most were driving the road at 25 mph or less.   
> It was that
> rough.   Best was when a great group of Chinese tourists in a club  
> wagon van was
>
> power  sliding with me.  Alas, they just couldn't keep up.  Oh  
> yeah, the
> Skywalk was great.  The "package deal" of the drive and unique  
> experience  was
> worth it for me.
>
> Rodney
>
> The road is very rough and I worried about puncturing a tire.  Did  
> try  to
> remember as much of my rally buddies' words of advice as possible,   
> avoiding
> hazards and flip over potentials.  I would only recommend driving   
> the way I did
>
> if your car is prepared or you have full renter's insurance from   
> the rental
> company.  LOL  I used almost 4 gallons of  gas just for that  
> portion of the
> round trip - 45 miles.  4 cyl PT  Cruiser.
>
>
>
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