Yup, I will add you to the sign up list as "tentative".

I'll be driving a 370z. I have a buddy with a vette z06 that will be attending as well.

^ kewl, you gotta a name for the buddy? Or I can just add him as your buddy with Vette.

Tips on things to bring

• 2 way radios
• Water
• Energy bars
• Camera, extra memory card and batteries.
• A fully charged cel phone
• Preferred currency to pay for lunch and dinner = CASH
• Absolutely no ATM cards.
• A light jacket
• Parka rain jacket

His name is Vishal.

Hi Curtis, please add me to the list.

Jim - 2010 370Z

My son (Greg) will probably be joining me as a passenger/co-driver.

Is it a good idea to apply blue masking tape on my front bumper and hood? I bet there are bugs on our cruise right?

Jim, added you and Greg to the sign up list. There are a couple of caravans. Bay Area and a meetup in Fairfield to join another caravan.

Sign up if interested in caravan.

A good coat of wax should do it. There are bugs, but not nearly as many at the altitude we will be at versus what you would catch in the valley. You want a clean car for those photo stops...right? I usually carry little plastic toolbox in the hatch with all of my cleaning supplies and when the oppurtunity arises thru out the run I will clean the bumper, windshield and mirrors. I will share if you like. :tup:

Sure. I also will carry a bottle of mcguires quick detailer.

Final post before the run, call my cel listed on first post if you need to contact me.

The weather looks great, 93 degrees in Quincy….ouch and I thought we were getting out of the heat in the valley. It should be much cooler along the Feather River thru the canyon.

The final sign up list is on post # 2.

See everyone at the main staging area tomorrow at 9:00 am sharp for registration and lunch/dinner selection followed by a drivers meeting at 9:45 am and then we depart at 10:00 am. We are on a tight schedule so please be on time.

I am able to make it, so I will see you guys at 9 am in the morning. Yay...

WalMart didn't have any of the 2 way radio...so I may be radio-less tomorrow...

Thanks Curtis for all you effort arranging this! Had a great time....

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Jim, it was great having you and your son (Greg) along on the run. We will have to do this again.

Great pix, I could not see that section of the caravan. I like alot.

From G35driver forum. Juan was driving the blue G35.

Great turn out!

This years run topped last year, allot more people and we could not have asked for better weather. The people really made this run!

Some came as far north as Chico, Santa Rosa, Oakland, south bay area and as far east as Reno. Met allot of new friends and caught up with old
friends. The food at both restaurants was delicious and the roads were absolutely in great condition. Very little traffic and overall we pretty
much had the road to ourselves.

Thanks to everyone that made the run. I will be hosting the run in 2011.

Pics soon.

There were more than what meets the eye, we had a total of 28 cars.

Thx for grabbing a shot of my Z, not sure if it was visible with the blk 240sx in front of me. We really had the road to ourselves; people were standing out in the road taking pics for several minutes before another vehicle came thru. I see your nice 49th Anniv there to the left about half way down.

There were four 370Z’s on the run.

This was a great shot, looks like a steeple hill race. The incline was steep and I was in 4th gear and after about four turns and allot of incline I noticed my oil temp was one hash mark away from LIMP mode (260 degrees). Shifted the 5th gear and prayed I would make it to the top and hope it would cool down on the downward spiral to the canyon floor where the double bridge was located.

I made it, but was VERY disappointed in the oil temp. I have been hearing of oil temp rising in Los Angles traffic at rush hour and just out climbing small mountains. I have all along intended on getting an oil cooler, now I just confirmed it not only in my Z34 but also my bro’s red Z34 also climbed to near limp mode. The incline was not even that steep, it was gradual but a fast gradual if you know what I mean. Probably about a 6% incline in about 2 miles.

The blue Z34 is Tong's (TongMan)

Hwy 70 and Hwy 89 junction at the big old barn. We had just been in 93 degree temperature on the canyon floor and Quincy was no better. We had climbed another 2k feet and it was like someone turned on the air conditioner. It was a nice resting spot and to swap stories of the 6 that were told not to come back to Quincy and they have their plate numbers. Jim were you in the outlaw group of 6?

Nice selection of Z's / G's and mix of other sport cars.

My favorite shot and you got it with our caravan crossing the bridge. I think the blue car on the bridge is either TongMan’s Z34 or Juan’s G35. You can probably see me and my copilot standing on the rails at the far end of the bridge taking photos.

Thanks Jim for the great shot.


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Curtis, My oil temp also hit 260 on that part of the run but from what I've read limp mode does not kick in until 280 degrees.

Good to know I had some reserve on the oil temp gauge. Oil cooler still in the works.

Did anyone in the outlaws group shoot any video? I coined the 6 that missed the photo stop "the outlaws".

Here are some of my pictures:

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Soccer mom has no knowledge of these "outlaws". shhhhhh

Oh noice, put the blame on some innocent looking family wagons.

"I know nothing"
Quote from Shultz of Hogan’s Heroes

Should rebadge em as "Desperate Outlaws"

Tong, thx for the great pics.

Pic #1: Sure fooled me the way its cropped makes it look like Colorado. :tup:

Pic #3: A great rep of the cars.

Pic #4 If I could only see the Desperate Outlaws under the tree. Who were those Mystery Menaces???

Pic #5 Nice color combo

Pic #6 Even nicer color combo

Pic#8 Isn’t that a great feeling.

I nominate 80 coming out of Truckee as the roughest freeway in California. I know times are tough but gravel on dirt would be better then that.

+1
I could not believe the pitted road for about 5 miles. It was so bad I had to turn the music up very loud to deafen the road noise.

As it turned out the next day my front end was plastered with giant squashed bugs. I washed it down and found my paint on the front grill had chipped (the size of dime) in a stress spot near the fang. At first I thought it was a bug that had toxic guts that ate thru my paint. Then I looked at some photos I had taken priot to the wash and there was no bugs in the chipped spot. So the wash pulled the paint from stress and I could only think it was the hammering of I-80 in that 5 mile stretch. Oh well you cannot see it unless really looking for it. I will get repaired and recovered with Venture Shield.

Slow on the pix, due to issues with my photobucket account. So I will be using a new server to host my pix - Picaso.

May have to put off the pix until after the Brunch Casino Run. Sry guys. I will try and to post up some teaser pix.

My co pilot and very good photographer was just accepted to some fancy Art school in San Francisco, dropped off his pix and they are astounding.

One of our good friends Bill Newcomb shot and edited some great onboard video. It's a long video but worth the wait. I could not believe the scenery and sky; it really described A Day in The Sierra's. Thanks Bill for an awesome job!

YouTube - 2010-06-26 Z Owners Sierra Run