Nothing was so much fun as learning how to drive in San Francisco with a
stick shift praying that I did not have to stop halfway up one of those
hills. Think Parnassas Street at UC Med School in SF.
John Sims, BN6 (another Cal grad)
Aberdeen, NJ
www.healey6.com
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Skip Saunders
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:27 PM
To: 'Alan Seigrist'; 'Michael Oritt'
Cc: bcvaughan@juno.com; 'Austin Healey'; caahc@yahoogroups.com; 'Tom
Surles'; 'Doug Merch'; 'Bob Tourville'; 'Jeb McCarthy'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Quite amazing driving
The trees on Lombard street have grown considerably since my days at Cal...
used to be quite a view going down the street... :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 7:48 PM
To: Michael Oritt
Cc: bcvaughan@juno.com; Austin Healey; caahc@yahoogroups.com; Tom Surles;
Doug Merch; Bob Tourville; Jeb McCarthy
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Quite amazing driving
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
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