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Re: [Healeys] Quite amazing driving

To: Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Quite amazing driving
From: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:47:32 +0800
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All -

I had a good laugh with this because this is the exact route I used to take
daily using my '64 BJ8 & '66 Ford Bronco Sport back when I was getting my
MBA at Cal then driving home across the bridge to my apartment on Russian
Hill.  Well... it was the same all the way up to the cable cars (which are,
incidentally, fake in this video).  I used to go quite fast down that bay
bridge offramp in my Healey because it actually handled through there quite
well.  After the cable car it's rather disjointed - so they were all filmed
at different times.  Its kind of like one minute your on Wall Street and
then the next shot you're in Queens.  The part where he gets air in the
car, I actually filmed myself getting (some) air in my '66 Bronco almost on
the same spot... but to be fair, with its crap suspension it wasn't that
hard to get air in the Bronco.  Driving the wrong way up Lombard St was
fun, would love to do that one day!  The section next to Lombard, on
Filbert, is one of the steepest road sections in the entire US, good fun to
drive it at 15 mph, looks like you are driving off a cliff as you crest
over the lip onto the hill.

Cheers,

Alan

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com>wrote:

> Watch this:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=LuDN2bCIyus&feature=related
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> Best--Michael
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