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XfireZ51 · 09-19-2011

If you were to use your ZR-1 for vacation where would you go?
I've thought of this often and have imagined taking a 3-4 week vacation in Europe. Ship the ZR to Great Britain, travel thru the Chunnel to France. Head for the wine country and to the southern coast. Over to Germany and the "sacred" Autobahn. Maybe the Nurburgring. down to Austria and Switzerland. Finally Italy, Modena and Maranello. Lake Como, Milan, Venice, Florence and finally down the Adriatic Coast surprising my friends and family in Bari.
How and where would you go with your ZR-1?

Kevin · 09-19-2011

few autobahn blasts are all I need after that pack her up send her home then drive something else around the ring and then head down to Jamaica

GOLDCYLON · 09-19-2011

The Nurenburg Ring

Z Factor · 09-20-2011

Well since my dream vacation is someday spending a month in Australia, I'd love to have it down there to get around a little quicker than a rental might be able to.

jcruz · 09-22-2011

I'm headed to the grocery store tomorrow

tomtom72 · 09-24-2011

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Originally Posted by jcruz

I'm headed to the grocery store tomorrow

I went last night, but I used my Cobalt....

I'd love to do the Nurburgring but It would proly take me a hour for a lap and the other drivers would get cross with me.

I'd love to find that road in northern Italy that they shot in an episode of Top Gear....that looked sweet! I'd love to see the Ferrari and Lambo factories and take a lap at Monza and Spa- Francorchamps.....I'd kill to do a lap on those tracks.

I think as much as I'd love to see Europe, I'd like to see a bit more of our country. I've never been past BG in the west, Fla in the south and New Orleans in the deep south.....all of that, save BG, was by plane. If I had to choose one, I'd say here first, Spa second.

WB9MCW · 09-22-2011

A Route 66 Adventure

One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 -- with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in America, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song (written by Bobby Troup, originally recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio in 1946, and later performed by such artists as Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer and Depeche Mode) and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.

Route 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, changing its path and overall length. Many of the realignments gave travelers faster or safer routes, or detoured around city congestion. One realignment moved the western endpoint farther west from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica.

Route 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.

U.S. 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27, 1985 after it was decided the route was no longer relevant and had been replaced by the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66". It has begun to return to maps in this form. Some portions of the road in southern California have been redesignated "State Route 66", and others bear "Historic Route 66" signs and relevant historic information.

scottfab · 09-22-2011

Beartooth Pass in Montana in the summer.
Over 10 miles of switch back roads going UP!
I could not contain myself when we got to the top.
I got out of the car and began screaming about how
much fun it was. We almost went back just to do it again.
Had to get back in the car quick. We were being swarmed
by little tiny tiny black mosquitoes that instantly bit.

09-19-2011	#1
XfireZ51 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chicagoland, IL Posts: 9,707	Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation If you were to use your ZR-1 for vacation where would you go? I've thought of this often and have imagined taking a 3-4 week vacation in Europe. Ship the ZR to Great Britain, travel thru the Chunnel to France. Head for the wine country and to the southern coast. Over to Germany and the "sacred" Autobahn. Maybe the Nurburgring. down to Austria and Switzerland. Finally Italy, Modena and Maranello. Lake Como, Milan, Venice, Florence and finally down the Adriatic Coast surprising my friends and family in Bari. How and where would you go with your ZR-1? Last edited by XfireZ51; 09-19-2011 at 05:00 PM.

09-19-2011	#2
Kevin Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: pittsburgh Posts: 4,632	Re: Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation few autobahn blasts are all I need after that pack her up send her home then drive something else around the ring and then head down to Jamaica __________________ It's not the car, it's the people - Doug Johnson 90 r/r "KEYS ON" nick named "T.L.B"

09-19-2011	#3
GOLDCYLON Join Date: May 2007 Location: Peoria, AZ Posts: 9,155	Re: Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation The Nurenburg Ring __________________ GOLDCYLON - 91 ZR-1 #2014 GOLDCYLON - 90 ZR-1 #2794, 4L60e (Formerly Schrade's) GOLDCYLON - 11 CTS-V Arizona State Director 91 WHITE/BLACK #2014. 380 P&P&PCed,Ported Heads, Jeal Long tubes, Corsa Exhaust/FIKSE FM-5s /LED TLs, LED Headlights, Front Wilwood 6 piston narrowlite calipers and rear Wilwood caliper street shop mod,CNCed Coolant Pipes,TPI Cvr,Filter cover,Stainless Bolts, DRM/DOM PROM /ZFDOC mod build #102,DRLs,BMAD with stainless Debris Screen,Coplan Air Blaster, Pioneer APP Radio 4,Brey-Krause HB,Sub Bar,Fire extinguisher seat mount,DRM Coilovers,LEDs everywhere,Compass mirror (orange),V1 DIC hidden display, Homelink sun visor, Carbon Fiber top x3 and APSIS Carbon Fiber interior, APSIS CF Steering Wheel/NAPA Leather, Banski trailing arms, Guldstrand front suspension,urethane bushings from Prothane (total suspension) ZFDoc drive shaft safety loop, raptor shift light (orange),AO engineering louver front plate, Console seat cushion, 96CE seats with black custom Sheepskins, ss billet catch can,Viper remote entry/alarm,Cragar Rear Louvers,LED side louver lights, Dewitts Radiator with SPAL fans and a Woods 160 T-Stat 90 RED/BLACK #2794. 4L60e Automatic Stage V by RPM Transmission, TCI Dedicated TCM, OBX Stainless Headers, Corsa Exhaust, SAN Secondaries and Haibeck PROM, Exotic Muscle Coil overs, LED Interior Lights, LED Tail Lights, LED Headlights, 94 Sport seats with black custom Sheepskins , Cragar rear louvers, GS Front calipers, Banski Trailing arms, APSIS Carbon Fiber steering wheel, Front and Rear Baer Eradispeeds, DRLs, Guldstrand front suspension,urethane bushings from Prothane (total suspension), Dewitt's Raditor with Dual SPAL fans and a Haibeck 170 T-Stat 11 RED/GREY CTS-V

09-20-2011	#4
Z Factor Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: S. Florida Posts: 2,667	Re: Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation Well since my dream vacation is someday spending a month in Australia, I'd love to have it down there to get around a little quicker than a rental might be able to. __________________ --- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt - April 23, 1910

09-22-2011	#5
jcruz Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Fort Myers, FL Posts: 343	Re: Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation I'm headed to the grocery store tomorrow __________________ 1992 #043, Aqua/Gray 40k miles

09-22-2011	#7
WB9MCW Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: McHenry, Il. Posts: 6,607	Re: Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation A Route 66 Adventure One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 -- with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in America, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song (written by Bobby Troup, originally recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio in 1946, and later performed by such artists as Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer and Depeche Mode) and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s. Route 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, changing its path and overall length. Many of the realignments gave travelers faster or safer routes, or detoured around city congestion. One realignment moved the western endpoint farther west from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica. Route 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System. U.S. 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27, 1985 after it was decided the route was no longer relevant and had been replaced by the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66". It has begun to return to maps in this form. Some portions of the road in southern California have been redesignated "State Route 66", and others bear "Historic Route 66" signs and relevant historic information. __________________ http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...9mcw/SIG-2.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o128/wb9mcw/vcm.gif "The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero, 55 BC " We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln

09-22-2011	#8
scottfab Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Portland Oregon metro area (Washington side) Posts: 3,207	Re: Your ZR-1 fantasy vacation Beartooth Pass in Montana in the summer. Over 10 miles of switch back roads going UP! I could not contain myself when we got to the top. I got out of the car and began screaming about how much fun it was. We almost went back just to do it again. Had to get back in the car quick. We were being swarmed by little tiny tiny black mosquitoes that instantly bit. __________________ Scott Vett owner since 1979._It's about the car and the people