Thread: Our recent trip to the mountains

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After the day at the Dragon, we headed over to Hiawassee, Georgia for the car show. The show was actually in Blairsville, but we stayed in Hiawassee. We took the long way and did some of the Moonshiner 28 road. We couldn’t do the whole thing.

In case you’re wondering about these road names, there are several different routes that have been laid out, mostly for motorcycles, and many of them have names. They have names like Thunder Road, The Rattler, and Copperhead. Some are not named, but are just loops that are laid out on websites and in pamphlets that are available at local motorcycle shops. Mostly, it plays into the local motorcycle tourism industry, but it does make it easy for someone from out of town to find interesting roads to ride.

The car show wasn’t super big, but we had a good time and there were many nice cars to look at. There were also some vendors.







The Hemi Under Glass wheelie car was there and was cranked up several times. Wish I could have posted a video. This is the same car that Leno was in when it rolled on his show. They told me that the whole side of the car had to be replaced after that incident. I found the engineering in it interesting. It used a boat type gearbox to redirect the power back to the rearend that had been turned around. The wheelie bars used 6 shocks to soften the hit. If you saw the Roadkill episode where they built Stubby Bob, you saw the same type of gearbox setup.





We made some new friends, too. These folks lived locally and showed up in the first day without a tent. The sun was relentless and we shared our canopy with them. We hung out with them for the rest of the weekend. One day they brought a small grille and we supplied some hot dogs and smoked sausage. Lots of good conversation and visiting.

Then, sadly, it was time to start home. During the week we put just about 2000 miles on the coupe and I don’t think it stumbled once the whole time. The only real trouble we had with the car was on the first day, when we got caught in the rain. The cowl vent apparently leaks and some water dripped onto a relay I have on the brakes. This caused the LED taillights to flicker and the cruise control to not work. It also must have dripped in the sound system and shut that down. I figured the brake and cruise problem out while driving and dried the relay out when we stopped to eat at Rising Fawn, Georgia. The radio issue was a problem off and on the whole week, but that was solved with Bluetooth speakers and headphones on the road.

We’re already looking forward to our next road trip! Thanks for following along.

I remembered your car from here when you showed up for the HRPT in Gonzales, La.
Lamar-Dixon Expo Center is in our back yard. We were there with our HISS and HERZ Camaro's. We did the first leg of the tour in HERZ to Baytown, Texas then headed north and went to visit with Emmett(Meller)(MelloYello) for an afternoon.
I got a photo but you were not around the car, otherwise I would have introduced myself.
Thanks for sharing your trip photos.
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