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How many of you guys have driven the Pacific Coast Highway in your 370z? I'm on vacation and drove about 40 mi from Monterey down through Big Sur and back today. The scenery is spectacular but the poor rental car... a Hyundai Sonata :roflpuke2: just isn't cutting it no matter how hard I pretend I'm behind the wheel of the Z. I'm so jealous of you NorCal guys who live in the area.

Beautiful area. Driven it plenty but not in my Z.

I did it in June. We had been up in the Clear Lake area north of San Francisco, which had some major twisties. We put 2500 miles on the Z in a week.

Cell phone pics from the trip:

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lol... I have the same shot of the Bixby bridge. There were more twisties with sudden elevation changes the farther south I went near McWay falls. Hugging the rail on descending curves with ocean on one side and mountain cliff face on the other side was great. The 370 would be awesome on this stretch of road. And you don't even have to drive fast for the thrill.

http://www.the370z.com/members/needf...rnia-hwy-1.jpg

every weekend i use to take pch up from santa monica to malibu when i lived in LA... but not in my z. was over a decade ago. :D

I took it last month and totally regret it. There's way too many huge rocks and potholes along the Bixby area going north.

Funny you mention the rocks and such, I was thinking about heading up big sur this year once football season starts, I think ill stick with the 5 now :ugh2:

Cool roads, but lots of H.P. around there too. And they don't like fast cars or sport bikes ripping through there!

I love that stretch of Hwy 1. I live on Hwy 1 just north of SF, so I drive the road every day, hence a "Z".
Currently California roads are developing more potholes with fewer repairs. The repair money seemingly will come from the Highway Patrol issuing tickets. So keep your eyes peeled and be careful.

We were south bound and had no problems.

This seems to be a universal theme lately. The Chicago streets are the worst I've ever seen them. Now we're in the middle of summer, and they aren't repaving anything. My Z is going to have a nasty next 12 months if they don't start repaving...

Anyone raise their Z and put 15" rims with huge mud tires on it? That may have to be my next winter setup.

Wow that is a beautiful bridge!

fyi, road is out past that bridge... had a storm a while back and the road is now gone, the only way to get to big sur from SF is via 101 >< found out the hard way

Yeah -- CHP's version of "Pay to Play", or...

"Play to pay to pave" :tup:

Is this the same bridge?