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Your Favorite TR Road

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One thing about the Blue Ridge Parkway; no stop signs, traffic lights, or commercial vehicles! There is the occasional deer in the road around a blind turn and the odd slow RV, though. The speed limit is 45 MPH, but believe me, in some places that is plenty fast enough to bring out the Fangio in one! There are scenic overlooks aplenty, too. And interesting things to look at. I lost count of how many high signs I got from drivers of minivans full of screaming kids. At least, I think they were high signs.

I highly recommend the Blue Ridge Parkway.
 
For my TR-7, one of the best roads is Route 2 from eastern Maine to western Vermont. You cross hills, mountains and valleys past farms, vast tracts of open land, and stunning villages.

Routes 100 and 12 in Vermont, which run north-south, is narrower and outstanding for sports car drives.

Route 9 in Maine has a 70 mile stretch from Eddington to Calais, at the Canadian border, that's wide ridge road with only 3 villages to interfere with rapid driving.

But these are just a few. Rural New England, even in states like Connecticut. Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has dozens of outstanding sports car drives. Even better, there's a suprising number of knowledgable shops in these little towns.

Jeff
 
There are some great roads between Hwy 101,
& Hwy 1,just South of San Francisco.
There was a run the day day before the Palo-
- Alto British Car Meet that I took the Cortina MKIII
on.I was keeping up with a guy in a nice highly modified
TR3.I thought that he'd want to punch me out for staying with him.He later told me that he was surprised that I
stayed with him.What a rush!

- Doug
 
The roads along the foothills of the Yosemite Valley https://www.yosemitefilm.com/roads.htm . With the changing seasons and the solitude makes this large animal veterinarian a happy camper. Can't wait to take the TR up to the Yosemite Valley.

Paul
 
I am sooo jealous. I first have to drive at least 10-15 miles of crowded streets or busy expressways to get out of Dallas, and then I'm lucky to find a reasonably uncrowded two-lane country road. And then these roads have few curves, and there's probably less than 50 feet of elevation change within 100 miles.

But at least I get to drive it pretty much year-round. And then again, pretty much whichever road I happen to be on in my TR3A is a favorite.
 
tdskip said:
Has to be the Palms to Pines Highway, Route 74 in SoCal.

If you've ever seen a cool desert background in Car and Driver you've seen it.
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Actually, that's not usually where we go to shoot a cool desert background /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif




I have shot up on rte 74 for some Hyundai shoots though. Great road for sure! Wish it was closer

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There are tons of great roads in SoCal






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Any road in New Orleans is now an adventure in your Triumph. They all look as if a B52 made a bombing run over them. They were always bad before Katrina, now they are worse. Potholes that will swallow your car. Ah, New Orleans. Love it or leave it.
 
WidespreadPanic said:
ok, I gotta ask.........

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]This from a recent business trip to Bolivia.
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what the heck kinda business are you in ? You're not hanging around with Pablo Escobar's friends are ya? [/QUOTE]

I'm service manager for a large electrical equipment manufacturer. My responsibility is Latin America and the Caribbean. We sold a pre-packaged substation to a mine in the Bolivian Andes. We encountered a number of problems during the manufacturing stages and the job became a political nightmare. Fortunately our field engineering team were able to sort things out and the customer was eventually very pleased. This trip was arranged so we could iron out any remaining issues and to witness the final commissioning and start-up of the equipment. I wasn't even aware of this road until our rep. suggested a scenic weekend drive. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
urchin said:
Routes 100 and 12 in Vermont, which run north-south, is narrower and outstanding for sports car drives
Jeff
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Agree - drove this road last summer in the TR250. Fantastic scenery and lots of nice windey bits.

A couple of international favourates -

In Australia - the Sunshine Hinterland/Glasshouse Mtns. Through Maleny, Mapleton, Montvile and Kenelworth. Loved taking my '63 Spitfire over these at speed. Also around Cairns, and the Atherton Tablelands are some great roads.

In Equador - "The Valley of the Volcanoes" - the main route from Quito to Banos. Views of 20,000 ft snow capped volcanoes - on the equator. Drove this in a 4WD, not sure a TR is what you really want for this one. And watch out for the other drivers, "driving on the right side of teh road" seems to be optional. Then there is the road from Banos to Puyo - a real terror. Narrow dirt road cut into the side of a mountain with a 500ft drop the other side.

Rob
 
There is a long drive that I like to do in the late Spring and early summer. Any earlier and most of the roads are still closed with snow, any later and half of the roads are clogged with tourists.

From Fort Collins, County Road 38E to 27 (back roads from Fort Collins to Loveland)to Hwy 34 (heading to Estes Park) to Devils Gulch Road back to Hwy 34(bypasses the congestion on Hwy 34 and downtown Estes Park) to the North Gate of Rocky Mountain National Park. Hwy 34 through Rocky Mountain National Park to Grandby where I catch US 40 to Hwy 125 north to Walden (this is the least crowded road of the drive and has some really nice scenery with long sweeping corners). From Walden (Moose capital of Colorado) I catch Hwy 14 through the Poudre Canyon and back to Fort Collins.

This is a 4-5 hour non stop drive. So when adding stops (or slowing down to enjoy the scenery) it becomes a day drive. On this drive we cross three mountain passes. Trail Ridge road through Rocky Mountain National Park at 12,183 feet. Willow Creek Pass (on Hwy 125) at 9,621 feet and Cameron Pass (in the Poudre Canyon) at 10,276.

This drive is not possible before Memorial Day weekend as Hwy 34 over Trail Ridge doesn't open until that weekend (and often gets closed again right away from blowing snow and such). Usually for the first few weeks that Trail Ridge road is open the snow is still 10-12 feet deep. So you end up driving through a snow canal so to speak. When I do that in my TR6, I stay warmer with the top down but windows up (as long as its sunny). Radiation is VERY effective at that altitude. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
The best time to take that (Montana)road is in
May,or September,when schools in,& the traffic's
light.We left our kids at my Sister's place in
Kalispell,& took our time driving it thru Glacier Park.
Incredible scenery!

- Doug
 
I also add ANY road in the Rockies or the eastern or western slope (foothills) of the Rockies
I also include the roads on Cascades chain of mountains in the interior of B.C.
 
MoPho said:
Actually, that's not usually where we go to shoot a cool desert background /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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OK, I won't ask for any trade secrets then.

Guys - if you haven't checked out MoPho's web site and looked at the portfolio pictures there you SHOULD.

Some amazing shots there! (make sure to check out the Rally section).
 
tdskip said:
MoPho said:
Actually, that's not usually where we go to shoot a cool desert background /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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OK, I won't ask for any trade secrets then.

Guys - if you haven't checked out MoPho's web site and looked at the portfolio pictures there you SHOULD.

Some amazing shots there! (make sure to check out the Rally section).
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Thanks! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

I am sure someone has hit 74 over the years, but most of the time it's up in the Mojave region or out in Arizona (one of the Editors lives there)

Another favorite road is the 33 into Ojai
 
You have some pretty amazing roads in the USA. I spent a fantastic three months over there in 1995. What really amazed me was how little traffic there is once you get away from the cities on the east coast. I also couldn't believe how long and straight so many of the roads were. Now I understand what cruise control is for. It is just not possible to use it here for more than about two minutes!
My favourite roads have to be Highway 133 and I50 (in Colorado) driving from Glenwood Springs to Gunnison. I noted in my diary that they beat anything I had driven on previously anywhere. Not in a TR I am afraid, but I was very impressed with my Oldsmobile Delta 88!
The best Scottish road in the TR was in 1994 on the last day of the Highland Fling Rally. After four days rallying around Scotland we left Fort William and travelled on mainly single track roads and a ferry onto the Isle of Mull. After a couple of hours there we took two ferries back to the mainland and then drove on the A82 through Glencoe where we were delayed for an hour while a lorry was pulled out of a peat bog back onto the road. Imagine thirty LBCs on a two-lane undulating road with a time control 90 miles away and us being 60 minutes late. We all made it on time, having topped 100mph for much of the way. I believe the scenery is great, but didn't get much chance to look at it!
 
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