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    Quote Originally Posted by NCGreasemonkey View Post
    Heck! You have to make the trip.

    Just poking!
    Made it to Philadelphia for my client meeting just fine though. Just went without the spare. Haven't seen Noir at the Morrisville C and C though.... Missed out on Andy's last one for at least the summer.

    Adam, I know you said that you were looking at getting "the real deal" trunk rack. Which company or companies were you referring to? Is there a huge difference?

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    My guess would be Zoom Engineering...
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    YES where in cali will you be traveling to!?

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    I think the original design of that trunk rack comes from Classic Carriers. I may be remembering the name wrong, but I think that's it. They've got a ton of designs for different sports cars including this Miata one.

    I'll be going to Anaheim and Irvine. And Joshua Tree on the way out. And maybe Grand Canyon on the way home.

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    Would it be safer to have the rack the other way around, so you have to "steel bar" in front of the tire and not behind?

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    Agree with Slampen; forces by braking are much higher that those of acceleration, especially in a Miata . Plus you want your head protected more than the road; although with the rollbar you have more than enough protection already.

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    I would think the bar is more there to keep things from falling off as you go down the road than it is keeping things from launching forward during braking.
    Quote Originally Posted by DazedAndConfused
    I dont know a word you just said, but that **** sounded COOL.

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    HA! I'm not sure which would be the best way for the bar. The instructions have it toward the back like a spoiler and the tire fits well on it that way. So that's how it'll be.

    And nothing's getting through my X-brace from Blackbird. Nothing. I'd be sad if my back window broke though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by revlimiter View Post
    It’s ON there. Not moving. I mean, the whole car moves when you try to shove the tire around. It’s solid. So I’m just gonna use these two lashing straps for the trip.
    Hey, if it's good enough for WRC then it's good enough for Sharka.


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    Where to begin?

    The opportunity arose to drive out to California and do some cool stuff. I’ll show more of that in a very near future post. This one is about the stop I made on the way to the LA area. A place I’ve wanted to visit for years – Joshua Tree!



    Stickers? What stickers? heh, Probably some explanation is in order.

    See, Sharka had (has) this spare tire on the trunk lid. That isn’t the normal “clean” look that I go for with my cars, but it looked kinda purposeful to me. Kinda vintage rally car. So I cut out some big roundels on my vinyl printer. (46cm before you ask). And that looked pretty damn cool, so I printed some big red REV heart stickers. Then I did the large Mazda stickers for the back. And then things progressed from there.

    This is my quicky tribute to the vintage 70s rally cars. I’ve never done a livery on Sharka and had a blast doing it. The reactions from folks on the way were fantastic.



    My route took me along I-10, which passes near the southern entrance to Joshua Tree. It’s in a different climate zone than the north, so it has quite a different look. Gorgeous rock formations, lots of neat desert plants, and a very bleached out landscape.

    And no Joshua trees.







    My original plan was to be in Joshua Tree National Park (called JTNP for most of the rest of this post most likely) for sunset, but… man, the sky was boring. Not a single cloud. The park was gorgeous, but no pretty clouds means boring sunset photos.

    And I didn’t wanna drive all that way for boring photos. So I went to my nearby hotel and resolved to get up super early for sunrise and hit the north side of the park.



    Earlier in the month I searched for a hotel nearby to JTNP. I knew I’d be along I-10 so I started looking in the Palm Desert / Indian Wells area. I found a few hotels near the freeway that looked kinda… not great. Parking Sharka in a hotel that shared an IHOP parking lot didn’t really appeal to me, so I dug a little deeper into town.

    Just down the road was this huge resort with golf, tennis, multiple pools and covered parking for only $60 more than the IHOP hotel. I booked.

    It turned out to be a timeshare resort covering about quite a few hundred acres. I had a view of the golf course and a pond with ducks. Sharka had a protected parking spot with no way of parking anything on either side of him. It was bliss.

    And at 3:30 AM, the bliss came to an end and we boosted up to the north to see some sunrise Joshua trees!







    The road between Palm Desert and JTNP north entrance is fantastic. It rises about 4000 feet in elevation over 20 miles and has some great curves. California canyon driving. Then there were some slow small-town miles. And then I was inside Joshua Tree.

    Joshua trees were EVERYWHERE! The horizon was filthy with them. Success!!!

    The north road into JTNP has these signs saying “55MPH Limit STRICTLY ENFORCED” which were just hilarious. The road is extremely not-straight. Lots of hills and fast turns. And I really did try my best, but I couldn’t maintain 55 over the whole thing. I did a few full drift turns trying to maintain speed (and was the only one on the road at the time) but I was just not enough driver for it. That road had a wildly optimistic speed limit.

    And at the end was my reward – sunrise at JTNP.









    Once I got inside the park, I was in a race against the sun. I was high on adrenaline from the 55mph-strictly-enforced backroad and low on sleep. I was a panicked ferret with boost and a camera. No wife or daughter around to calm my mania. Just my automotive alter-ego urging me to drive faster and beat the earth’s rotation.

    The park was EMPTY. We passed a few cars parked off the road with no humans nearby. I’d guess they belonged to hikers on the way to a good sunrise viewing spot. So it was just me and Sharka.

    The earth rotated under us.





    BOOOST!!!!!!!!!!!!! Squeal! Engine idle. Door slam. Click-click-click! Pause. Door slam. VROOOOOOOOOM!!!

    Over and over. If anyone was around to see or hear us, we were probably pretty obnoxious. I’d find a nice spot, get out, take some pix, and then Sharka raced to the next nice spot ahead.

    Full boost. Full volume.

    Until we found our sunrise spot.







    So worth it. There are no words.

    Once we found our spot and parked, this feeling of serenity washed over me. Sharka and I became a part of the silence. We just sat and watched the sun come up. We listened to the tiny birds call back and forth to each other.

    We existed in the silence.



    Sufficient adjectives are not appearing in my brain to describe our time that morning in Joshua Tree. Words fall short. My photos are decent, but they don’t capture the whole experience.

    It was truly an experience.

    I feel beyond privileged that I was given this. That my life included that morning in Joshua Tree and that my little Roadster was there with me.

    No words. So much love.

    The room is dusty you guys. More on my California road trip soon.

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    First to reply because like me, everyone else is speechless. Holy mother of god those are beautiful shots!! Cannot wait to see more of your trip!

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    . Wow, just.... wow!!

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    Amazing just amazing

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    That road had a wildly optimistic speed limit.
    Guess I'm going to have to take a visit with my tires once the ITBs are on...

    Can't wait to see your coverage of your KINOD Visit!!!
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    Cool pics! There is nothing like a well executed road trip!

    Bravo!

    I'm feeling the wanderlust now... Good thing I got a road trip to the Ozarks coming up in a few weeks!

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