Ali brought his own ride, innit.....tell them where you is from, ali.
i left my home in northern VA on the 13th, at around 7 AM....traffic already sucked going north into the city, you can see the Potomic Mills shopping mall sign in my rearview.
aah, richmond...
Welcome to North Carolina! If only there were some way to know that i was really and truely in the south...oh, wait! what's that in the distance?
okay, i guess that means i'm in the south.
What'd you think of that truck, Ali? (Click him, dammit.)
After seeing about 100 signs for this "South of the Border" place, i finally took a pic of one of them....
...right before seeign this amusingly pathetic excuse for a theme park! I hear tell it sucks, but it sure made me laugh....a nice oasis of scenery on an otherwise very monotonous trip.
What does Ali think of a big stupid sombrero suspended above the border between north and south carolina?
There was a lot of construction for a while in the carolinas...looks like somebody screwed up this optional slalom.
Heh, this amused me, a pilot car for a wide load truck was a camaro...actually, half of the state trooper cars i saw in NC and SC were bitchin camaros...
And this was the reason for the camaro...there were several of these big muthas on 95 south.
So, after 6 hours strapped into my Evo seat, i'm surprisingly OK. After 2 hours of road ass being in effect, you start to ignore it, right Ali?
heh, werd. Tried to get a pic of the factory, but i was going a bit too fast to get the camera out in time once i realized you could see it from the highway.
The only thing on my mind about georgia was the fact that i did not want to get a ticket, at least 3 people told me that they throw your ass in jail half the time. Still, people in the south drive fast, and 70 MPH speed limits rule...i spent alot of the trip drafting a horse trailer doing about 90.
Finally, no more states to go through! Of course, this one is pretty frickin long...
And here we have lovely Jacksonville...home of the stunna!
This was one of several thousand silly cars i saw with altezza tails...dual pipez ownz j00!
I got alot of flybys in the R....funny how you care even less when you've been in a car for 10 hours.
What's your opinion on all the ricey hot stunnas, Ali?
Sunshine state, eh? That looks like it's getting kinda dark up there...
Okay, cruise control off....
well, it is still sunny, but the rain is starting to come down like a mofo...
I'll be damned, it's a deluge and it's STILL sunny! They ain't lying on the sign...of course, shortly after this it starting coming down so hard i had to swerve to avoid noah and his big ark....no pix, it was just dark and rain and half the people on the road were pulled off to the side.
Here's near orlando, that's the storm cloud looking like it wants to make a tornado...
so very dark, pix do it no justice.
Independance day ship, anyone?
After some amusing coordination on the bling bling cellphones, we managed to make an intercept. Matt, and his filthy car, dead ahead!! We met up with Dave at Matt's appartment, scarfed down some Wendys, and got to work on the ATS FD...but that's covered in another page. Check out some pix of the wickid stuff in Orlando...
This is one of the NASCAR motors that Matt and his school chums get to play with all day...they blew up their 700+ Horsepower Hendricks motor, this is a restricted Penske motor, a bit shy of 400 horses. They like to do smokey burnouts in the engine lab on the water brake dyno.
this engine is loud as fawk.
I don't think this is going in the R anytime soon.
This is the tube frame mustang that another of Matt's buddies is going to be flying down the 1320 in...this guy is a Jedi welder, just look at this bad boy. FROM SCRATCH!!!
You gotta have a little somethin for tha ladies :)
uber-welds. This frame should be good for 8s.
Matt and his girlfriend, surfing honda-tech.com....his neighbors all chipped in and got him this hottie for his birthday...she's a great companion at the pool!
the printed on face scares the hell out of me.
baby got back!
what do you think of tha ho's ali?
Matt's neighbor nicole, after getting creamed with about 10 water baloons...shouldn't have fired those first shots, nicole. The night after this, i began my northward journey with an ATS final drive, clickin about 5k on the tach all the way back, wickid! Just a few pics for the drive home...
that's funny.
This guy was hauling.
Stopped off in charlottesville to visit an old friend of mine, we realized we go back to frickin pre-school....how's that for back in the day?
Ali sums up the trip nicely.
Summary: Florida is a frickin hot state, mad props to Matt and Dave for helping make my car super-angry in a very short time, Hot Tubs are sweet, but sitting in florida in a hot tub is pretty we-todd-did, Ali G is the funniest thing i've seen in a long time, a sparco evo is more comfortable than you might think for long trips (better than stock seat), and i can't wait to visit agian sometime....not sure if i'll be takin the R again tho :) Fo real.
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