3,400 miles in 8 days

I am happy to report that my Superleggera has held up really well

during a 3,400-mile 8-day road trip from the Bay Area to Moab UT

through AZ on the way out and NV on the way back.

 

No tickets. Two CEL codes (P0105 on 1-5 and 6-10 -- the car noted

the low barometric pressure when I turned it on at 9,600 ft, after a

brief stop at the pass on Boulder Mountain -- no problem at 10,420

ft on Brian Head two days later :-). And eight loose screws, on the

two air intake top covers (slightly insufficient torque after the last

time they had come off at the shop, coupled with two days of extra

rough pavement in the Four Corners area -- no big deal).

 

The all-around protective clear bra installed just before the trip was

absolutely worth it. No paint chips. No rolling bushes hit. Just a bird

strike at 50 mph (bird got sucked under front bumper, hit the road,

and then hit the front scrape guard, resulting in a puff of feathers).

Withstood rain, sleet, one inch of ice on the front and mirrors, and

plenty of dust (car went from black to yellow to white to orange to

red to gray to camo black-and-yellow due to a layer of bugs).

 

The car turned out to be *way* more comfortable than I expected.

 

Drove 10 hours total on the first and last day, respectively. Drove

a 325-mile leg without stepping out. Got 20.6 mpg at 75 mph. And

up to almost 23 mpg at slightly lower speeds. Drove tons and tons

of twisty mountain roads, to bring that back well below 20. In fact,

drove Boulder to Escalante on Hwy 12 back and forth... five times,

for a little over three hours. (I theorized a while back that one can

do 500 miles on one tank. Turns out I was right. :-)

 

Met a film crew in Goblin Valley State Park. Stayed after they left,

to watch the Milky Way. Yes, stars rising at the horizon! I saw that

only once before, when I visited the Maldives.

 

And yes, met a lot of friendly & good people. I hope all your photos

turned out as well as mine. Oh, and yeah, I took hours and hours of

1080p video with the ContourHD cam mounted in the car. Have not

had a chance yet to review all of that footage though.

 

Anyway.

 

In short, my trip to celebrate Ferruccio's 94th birthday was a success.

 

PS: Let me know if you have questions.

 

 

Very nice, must be a dream trip in a G-SL. I'm doing a 2.5k mile roadtrip through Europe (Germany, Italy, South France and then through France back home) starting this weekend.....in a Mini Cooper S

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Now see people, YOU CAN drive these cars and ENJOY every frickn minute of it..Rain, snow and even sunshine!!

 

I am so glad you enjoyed your car and YOUR LIFE!!

 

101 extra life points to you.........

 

You are now officialy a part of the "Roy-drive them like they wer ment to be driven club" !!!

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Great to see them driven!

Great to see them driven!

That was cool.

Why is the front plate mounted so strangely?

Would say its probably mounted on the tow hook to avoid holes being drilled.

That is awesome.

 

Did you proceed further on that road covered with snow? If so...damn!

> probably mounted on the tow hook to avoid holes being drilled

 

Correct.

 

Visit gominigo. Paste "GMG-NH-Lamborghini.html" after the .com.

 

Why? Because CA + daily driving = regular annoying fix-it tickets.

> Did you proceed further on that road covered with snow?

 

Of course I did. (While the 30F air resulted in snow, road

surface temperature was ~34F, preventing accumulation

during the half hour I was in this storm.)

 

That was AZ-87, crossing the Mogollon Rim. I had driven

on 260 from I-17 and wanted to go to Winslow (and then

on to Petrified Forest NP). So I had to go on. Because my

alternative was to turn around, go up I-17, and then east

on I-40.

 

Why 260+87? Because unlike the Interstates, it provided

me with both, twisty and long straight stretches. Also, 40

had been closed the day before because of 90 mph cross

winds. Yes, you read that right... ninety. (All that was left

of the green road signs were metal stumps. :-)

 

Definitely an interesting weather day that one -- Petrified

Forest greeted me with rain, and then lightning+thunder,

which I watched ~20 mi away, from a hill top. And south

of Chinle I hit that storm again, resulting in a layer of red

mud which I washed off the next day.

 

(This was my first time in the desert during the season of

rain and green growth. I liked it a lot.)

Nicely done! I hate garage queens.

Very nice write ups and kudos for driving that thing!