Here is some of the eye candy. Great turnout and diversity of cars. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Saturday 9/11/10 - Report #6 Location: War Eagle, Arkansas Miles Driven (since last report): 31 Miles Driven (total): 594 --- Time to make up for the lost miles today! Started the morning with police escort through downtown. We then made a hard run to War Eagle and I was upfront to pay for the FerrariChat sponsored breakfeast. 99 people had breakfeast in our group! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Saturday 9/11/10 - Report #7 Location: Jasper, Arkansas Miles Driven (since last report): 136 Miles Driven (total): 630 --- Awesome new route to Jasper! 90-95% of these roads up here are the same good surface condition, twisty, mountains, with great views. These are all awesome and the reason Crescent is such a good event, but today we got into several miles of simply unbelievable roads. In the drivers meeting the section was described Lombard Street and that wasn't a lie! Coming off the mountain a couple dozen turns just staying in 2nd the entire way. Simply awesome. Lunch at a neat little place in Jasper called Ozark Cafe. If you go there look for the Crescent Rally sticker now. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Saturday 9/11/10 - Report #8 Location: Eureka Springs, Arkansas Miles Driven (since last report): 72 Miles Driven (total): 702 --- Again, Crescent finds all the best routes. Even on this Saturday with the Ozarks crowded these routes were mostly clear for WOT. Some neat little backroads getting into Eureka Springs. Catching up now, doubt I will post again until on the highway coming home tomorrow. Here in a little we have our Renaissance party at some Castle and then F1 Watching in the morning. Too much fun.
It was sure nice to meet everyone today and see alot of beautiful cars that alot of us dream about owning! Kinda nice to meet down to earth people like yourselves whom don't act like they are above others like some Corvette owners I've met in the past.
Saturday 9/11/10 - Report #9 Location: Eureka Springs, Arkansas Miles Driven (since last report): 0 Miles Driven (total): 702 --- The castle turned out to be really cool. I don't remember the name right now, but believe it was someone's mansion built right on this river north of Eureka Springs. Several pictures on the wall from years back of an older gentleman powerboat racing and stuff with helicopters. My guess without knowing better someone with a ton of money decades ago and now they rent the place out for parties. I know all the Ferrari owners recognized that grinding noise, but this time it was our bus. I hand it to all our chicks getting out there to dance, especially the few that went for "sexy" Renaissance. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sunday 9/12/10 - Report #10 Location: Eureka Springs, Arkansas Miles Driven (since last report): 0 Miles Driven (total): 702 --- What a F1 race for our Crescent Tour live watching party! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sunday 9/12/10 - Report #11 Location: Sallisaw, OK Miles Driven (since last report): 132 Miles Driven (total): 834 --- For once a dry trip home! Another blow out for the DFW caravan. John in the silver 430 had his right front pop in Springdale. Scratching our heads what to do on a Sunday with no spare we tried my Maserati spare and it worked perfect. So John is on my spare SLOWLY trying to make it back to Dallas, maybe stopping somewhere like Ft. Smith for a tire tomorrow. We kept the pace up to Sallisaw for lunch. Jennie driving now behind Rob & Stephanie. The pace is still up. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks for breakfast Rob! For those of you that missed the Crescent, you missed the company of some of the most genuine people around, and some of the greatest roads in the US. Saturdays drive was nothing less than simply incredible..... Thanks guys! Dave
Sunday 9/12/10 - Report #12 Location: Southlake, TX Miles Driven (since last report): 270 Miles Driven (total): 1104 --- We made it home about 3:45 PM. 400 miles and about 6.5 hours door to door. The ladies pace back into town was blistering! I need to retire from driving. Although we had the heavy rain up and the blow out, Crescent was great yet again and we'll be back. Thanks everyone that puts it together. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Any idea what caused the blowouts for you guys? I drive very fast and it really concerns me about what might happen if I were to get a blowout at high speeds. I try to replace my tires all the time, but this still sounds strange.... Looking for some insight! Glad everyone is okay and had a good time
Excellent summary as usual. First time I've had a chance to check the thread since we left. What a great trip... again. John got back home safely on Rob's spare tire. Glad that worked out. Another great job by Chris Parr and Company. Super roads and events, nice to see our old friends from up north, and meet some of the new Colorado contingent. We were so busy, we didn't have a chance to do any ghostbusting. Too bad, since Doug did some high performance mods to his ghost detector that I wanted to check out. Great score having Derek Bell attend. I think he had so much fun, he may be a regular attendee. He was a great sport putting up with the silliness, especially with his coconut-clapping entourage. He seemed quite comfy in his outfit. Do most Brits already have that kind of gear in their closet?
I think the rain and afterwards will always make you more susceptible to flats and blow outs because of washed up debris. I learned that lesson riding bicycles. In my case we were running the pig trail hard and I don't remember anything specific, but I was hitting all the apexes. In John's case we had just gone over a railroad track or large bump, it was a hard hit for everyone, but just popped his. Both my tire and John's were newer and solid tread. Mine had just been balanced last week and I checked my pressures daily on the trip. John just emailed everyone, he made it all the way back to Dallas on the Maser spare. Actually he only arrived an hour after us.
great write up rob and thanks for sharing. despite the blowouts im happy there weren't any accidents. rob even though you drove the car hard and hit all the apices i can't help but think that pirelli made a crapy tire and it's a manufacturing defect. also you be kind to post a final map of where you found the roads to be fun to drive or are all the roads around eureka springs nice. im thinking of taking a trip up there on my motorcycle.
I'm not sure what brand tire John is on. I have had Pirellis on my 328 for 10 years with no problems (2-3 sets in that time). This is the 2nd flat we've had this year driving about 10k on the Maser. I might try another brand (not Michelin!), but I think the biggest problem is these low profile tires. Not only is it hard on the rims, but I think hard on tires. They look good and handle great though!
I bet I know why 'not Michelin'! Someday I'm going to have a car capable of making that run in comfort at speed. And maybe I'll be done with soccer too. I think I can make it in 2013!
To Rob, and all the Ferrari folks... Please excuse the incursion into the FerrariChat forum, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you fine folks for taking the time to stop over in Jasper and having lunch at the Ozark Cafe. We were having lunch there when all these Ferraris started driving by. I thought I was dreaming!! Fantastic! We retired in Newton County about 5 years ago from Houston and found the country and people just great...hope you did as well and hope you received a warm welcome. As for the roads and "twisty-turnies", yes, they are funtastic. I accidentally bumped into Derek Bell as he was taking pictures out on the sidewalk and had a short conversation with him. Extremely nice fellow and very cordial. Really enjoyed seeing all the F-cars and please return to Newton County anytime! We'd love to have you. Regards, Tom Bates
That is great Tom from a fellow Texan. Certainly is a beautiful area and town. Much cooler right now too.
Hi Rob, This was on my wifes Camera...feel free to "Steal" it if you want ....Sure was Fun. One picture is "Welcome to Huntsville" ....He didn't give us a ticket though....apparently the card swipe machine was broken at the Shell station we all stopped at and it wasn't reading the gas cards, but the pump would turn on.....the station got my Car number and they pulled me over at Huntsville....I gave him my license when I got out and was prepared, but he laughed and No, No, you weren't speeding, you need to call in your Credit card number to the gas station .............Whew!! Mark Milam Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
