Pictorial where did you go in your Stinger today

[MerlintheMad]

The family decided that Disneyland was on next week. They're driving down variously today; some staying in Mesquite tonight, some in Vegas, some making it actually to Anaheim. The weekend is for getting settled and contacting local family; and Monday is "family day", whatever that is supposed to entail; I'll be told, I'm sure.

I am not going into Disneyland. But I drove my wife's vegan food down here; three ice chests of it. It fits! Amazing. She flies. I met her at John Wayne Airport. And while she was deplaning I dusted off my car. It was very dusty. There were bugs in front too. It got up to 91F on the freeway, if you can believe it. The 1st of February, and 91F on the freeway!? The psi in my tires was up to 48. I did not come down here to "enjoy" temperatures in the 80s, much less 90s; I came down here to enjoy temperatures in the 60s. Away from the freeway it was still 73F. I won't complain about that.

We're staying in Huntington Beach at the Surf City Inn. It's quaint. So quaint, in fact, that it is all built over a ground level garage with two stories of rooms on the second and third floor. And (get this) NO elevator!? I'm not kidding. This place is for kids. Not Baby Boomers whose wives are vegan and require literally hundreds of pounds of stuff when they go on trips. I nearly died going up 36 flights of stairs (if I was in a Hitchcock film, those last three steps would have done me in). First trip up was with an ice chest; ditto the second; ditto the third (a fairly light one, though, being smaller than the other two). Then came the suitcase. The monster. If it weighed 50 lbs I am a wet nosed kid. I dragged it up, one stair at a time. Or I would not be writing this. Heh.

Row One: I managed to get all three ice chests into the hatch with room to spare for my car cleaning supplies; Dawn lightens the sky over the Wasatch Range above Provo; the Virgin River gorge, my favorite part (but "they" ruined it by posting 55 MPH speed limits, and having road construction going on; I even saw a cop pull over a speeder; I've NEVER seen a cop in that canyon before); a typical view of southern Nevada-NW Arizona.
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Row Two: "Black Mountain", east of Barstow, at least that's my name for it; and a close up of Black Mountain, the freeway cuts north of it; NAV waiting in the "cellphone waiting lot", waiting for my wife to say that she's on the ground and forty minutes out (occupied the time dusting my car); I picked up my wife at the passenger pickup, and she added three suitcases of various sizes (the smallest one is on her lap).
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Row Three: I managed to cram everything in; the first view of Surf City Inn, from the middle turn lane; I backed into a precious end stall; and it was a very tight squeeze (I worked my way in by doing ten point turns, JK, but only a little)
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Row Four: closeup detail of the wall at the entrance to the parking garage (which I did not use, deeming it too cramped and dangerous, and opting for outside instead); pull back and show the wider view; the 36 stairs from hell.
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(edit to add: I forgot to mention, that on the way down, the freeways were hazardous with junk lying around; actually, mostly in LA area, including Riverside, where I saw an entire front bumper cover still lying off to the left shoulder. WTH!? The worst was an aftermarket exhaust pipe, easily 40" long, still all chrome looking and new, lying/straddling the lane line, threating traffic in both lanes. Earlier, traffic ahead was slowing, where you come down in that giant "S" bend below Victorville on I-15: and when it was my turn to arrive at the panic spot, I saw what looked to be large pieces of aluminum lying all over the road. So far, so good. But sometime after the aluminum and before the exhaust pipe, I heard a *whack* somewhere up front. Not until I was dusting my LF wheel in the cellphone waiting lot, did I see the impact mark to the extreme edge of the rim, which had lifted the powder coat into a little "spike", which I picked off with my fingernail. The last thing I did before driving around to fetch my wife was get out the gloss black touchup and go along the c. 2" of abused area. Looks pretty good, so much so that a picture would not show anything, so, I didn't bother, and even forgot about it until much later; or earlier, depending on how you look at it, since it was only this morning that I remembered! )

 

[eflyguy]

Nice..

 

[eljay]

Welcome to sunny SoCal, Merlin. But coals to Newcastle: vegan food to Orange County! (I know, best to be prepared.)

And I don't know what's up, but yeah, the last few weeks the freeways have looked like destruction derby.

Stay safe; have fun.

 

[Ozstung]

More of an endurance event. Nice photos.

....much like reading the bloody thing.....I took one look and said to hard

 

[MerlintheMad]

This morning I went to the "Pavilions" supermarket in Seal Beach, and then washed off my car in their parking lot, with a gallon of distilled water and ONR. Right around the corner was a "Sudz" coin laundry, so I washed my cleaning terrycloth towels immediately. (Believe it or not, I have only used a coin operated laundromat one other time in my life and that was in SE England back in 2006. . So this was the first time I've used a laundromat in my native land; I had to get the guy working the place to help me. ) This morning when I went out to my car it was speckled with dried on rain drops; during the night, obviously. So, I've moved "inside", if you can call it that; at least it's mostly covered: I have a choice: nose or tailfeathers will be exposed to the next precipitation. I've opted for tailfeathers, mainly because I back into the compact car-sized parking stalls: I don't trust my spatial acuity enough to chance nosing into place. Hah.)

We spent the bulk of the afternoon at Sunset Beach (just across the street and condos from our hotel). I walked to the Anaheim Bay southern breakwater. Shells and pieces of the same are collected there inches deep. I found four perfectly sound shells (one actually on the beach, which is a rare find). I am even less of a boat/ship guy than I am a car guy; I only know it's "battleship grey" so must be military. My grandson is minutes away from destroying the sand castle his daddy built for just that purpose.

 

[Satansfist]

Went to Bunnings yesterday and lo and behold...a twin! First time seeing one in a carpark.

2020-02-04_08-50-50 by satansfist, on Flickr

 

[MerlintheMad]

Drove over to Redondo/Torrance so my wife could link up with her best chum from their high school days (they've, we've, been in contact throughout the years). While those two crazy women went boogie boarding (in wet suits, at least, heh!?), I walked from the south end to the far north end where the Redondo pier is just ahead, and back again; c. an hour or so, while the sunset made the sky glorious.

Afterward we ate at "Fat Burger"; well, I ate the burger and fries, my wife ate here vegan stuff, and her best friend talked.

On the way home, a car pulled up along my side and sort of sat there. This was on the I-405 heading south. I glanced over and it had a familiar look. I slowed a bit and it got in front. "Stinger," I said. "A Silky Silver, too." My wife asked if I wanted a picture and I scrambled to get my camera out of my back pocket. She deployed the camera as I closed in. "It's doing something weird. Everything is jumpy," she said. Well, we missed the shot; the Silky Silver got off at the very next exit. Damnation. My camera had played up; it does that sometimes, and vibrates, and you have to snap your wrist to make it snap out of it and settle down. That's two in the last couple or three weeks that have gotten away, both Silky Silvers too. Maybe we're being stalked? (three States away? nah).

 

[Flameangel]

Went up the Road to Wallington to get some Turtle Food. When I came out, the lady getting out of the car next to me smiled and then I noticed what it was........." An Original Maserati " and my " Smart man/woman's Maserati ", without the price Tag and service costs

 

[app_master]

Local shop trip here too, but I'll see your Maserati and raise you a McLaren...

 

[OliverNuther]

Local shop trip here too, but I'll see your Maserati and raise you a McLaren...

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‘Wow! Where was that?

 

[ShannonC]

Sorry, a pair of Rollers beats that (but it wasn't "today")

 

[Nasscar]

Sorry, a pair of Rollers beats that (but it wasn't "today")
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Yes I agree Shannon wins this one. I wonder if the owners of the Rolls are saying the same thing.

 

[Flameangel]

Local shop trip here too, but I'll see your Maserati and raise you a McLaren...

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You Win

 

[Pumbaa]

You Win

As soon as I get home I will take a pic in my Apartments Garage... next bay to mine is a Ferrari f40, 3 bays over is a Corvette Zr1 and there are a few different Porsche's scattered around.. will try get them all in one Pic...

 

[eflyguy]

That Maclaren easily out-prices those two Rolls (assuming it's the speedtail?). I personally think it's butt-ugly but it's $2.25 million..

 

[MerlintheMad]

That Maclaren easily out-prices those two Rolls (assuming it's the speedtail?). I personally think it's butt-ugly but it's $2.25 million..

And you have to be a contortionist to get in and out of it. Unless this model has the winged doors; even then, it's so low that you might as well be sitting on the ground.

 

[eflyguy]

And you have to be a contortionist to get in and out of it. Unless this model has the winged doors; even then, it's so low that you might as well be sitting on the ground.

The speedtail doors open vertically.

You do have to climb over the side seats to get to the drivers seat, and it's nowhere near as elegant as the F1.

 

[ShannonC]

That Maclaren easily out-prices those two Rolls (assuming it's the speedtail?). I personally think it's butt-ugly but it's $2.25 million..

It's not the Speedtail.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

New 720S approx. AU$600K

 

[87and66]

That Maclaren easily out-prices those two Rolls (assuming it's the speedtail?). I personally think it's butt-ugly but it's $2.25 million..

McLarens tend to look alike (yeah i said it). But, that's a 570GT