Tail of the Dragon - with an interesting friend

[jimmylukeii]

Just finished a fantastic road trip with a friend and his "old" GT40, as opposed to his new one, which he kept in the garage (lucky guy!).

 

Hit Tail of the Dragon, Cherohala Skyway, and lots of surrounding roads.

 

Randomly met an older gentlemen who was an engineer on the LeMans winning GT40 teams.  He and his wife had lots of interesting stories.  What a trip!

[wdb]

Wow, quite a trip! Thanks for sharing.

[panamericano]

Great run I'll bet.  Cool photos.  BTW, "Ford GT", not GT40.

[IamScotticus]

Did you out corner the GT-40?

[jimmylukeii]

10 hours ago, IamScotticus said:

Did you out corner the GT-40?

Sure did, but not by much.  The straights were a different story entirely.

 

But kudos to my driving partner - he really pushes that thing.  He tracks it hard from time to time also.

[theDreamer]

Sorry, no se7ens content. We were there last month with my present fun car, now daily driver. Went down for USDesmo's Ducks Fly South Ducati rally. We have stopped riding and sold our two main motorcycles. We always drove down choosing to tow rather than face long hauls on the super slabs. Had almost as much fun driving as we would have had riding but with one big differences. We were able to converse more and not try to interpret hand and foot signals.

Hope to do it (drive my favourite southern roads) in a se7en someday.

Edited October 25, 2023 by theDreamer