Car rental and what road - LA
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Hey guys, after some advice please. I'm stopping over in LA around the 8th October for 4/5 days and really wanna rent out a V8 muscle car for a day or two. Anyone you can recommend or roads to drive on would be great. Also any cheap accommodation would be cool too!
Yes I know about Google but you can't beat a good personal recommendation. Any help would be great and if you wanna come along for a drive round then that would be awesome too.
Cheers
Yes I know about Google but you can't beat a good personal recommendation. Any help would be great and if you wanna come along for a drive round then that would be awesome too.
Cheers
There are innumerable canyon roads in the Santa Monica mountains, to the north of Los Angeles, the most famous of which is Mulholland Drive/Highway. There are a billion YouTube vids, to give you a canyon-carving flavor of these roads (which CHP patrol heavily at weekends).
PCH is a snore (and virtually a motorway) in comparison.
PCH is a snore (and virtually a motorway) in comparison.
Angeles Crest Highway is the road you're looking for, great fun straight out of LA. 60 odd miles long and takes you up to 7 thousand feet (ish).
Mulholland is quite good as well but can be quite busy. The PCH is very pretty but usually full of tourists driving slowly as they look at the sights.
Mulholland is quite good as well but can be quite busy. The PCH is very pretty but usually full of tourists driving slowly as they look at the sights.
HH - I would recommend Hwy 33 north of Ojai. You'll have to travel farther away from Los Angeles to get there, but there will be that much less traffic. Doing this on a weekday, all the better. Here are a couple of photos from drives I have taken on Hwy 33 previously:
At the summit:
At the northern end of the twisty bits; intersection of Hwy 33 and Lockwood Valley Rd. (which is also a good one!):
If you see this sign, you almost surely will want to turn left.
At the summit:
At the northern end of the twisty bits; intersection of Hwy 33 and Lockwood Valley Rd. (which is also a good one!):
If you see this sign, you almost surely will want to turn left.
Edited by BBL-Sean on Thursday 2nd October 23:07
BBL-Sean said:
HH - I would recommend Hwy 33 north of Ojai. You'll have to travel farther away from Los Angeles to get there, but there will be that much less traffic. Doing this on a weekday, all the better. Here are a couple of photos from drives I have taken on Hwy 33 previously:
At the summit:
At the northern end of the twisty bits; intersection of Hwy 33 and Lockwood Valley Rd. (which is also a good one!):
If you see this sign, you almost surely will want to turn left.
Just watch for crazy sport bike riders on weekend mornings! But its probably one of the best driving roads around, also the canyon roads going from PCH into Thousand Oaks can be alot of fun if you dont get behind traffic.At the summit:
At the northern end of the twisty bits; intersection of Hwy 33 and Lockwood Valley Rd. (which is also a good one!):
If you see this sign, you almost surely will want to turn left.
Edited by BBL-Sean on Thursday 2nd October 23:07
Haha I can't tell you what roads I drove on, well actually I can but I need a PC to dig out the toll road payment confirmation emails. I drove from LA to Mexico and back again in a v6 mustang, automatic as " we don't do stick shift sir" good time had and car returned to Alamo without any additional charges, unlike the bike renters in Cambodia.
Excuse the pants
Excuse the pants
Edited by Hill Hunter on Wednesday 4th February 04:30
Matt Harper said:
There are innumerable canyon roads in the Santa Monica mountains, to the north of Los Angeles, the most famous of which is Mulholland Drive/Highway. There are a billion YouTube vids, to give you a canyon-carving flavor of these roads (which CHP patrol heavily at weekends).
PCH is a snore (and virtually a motorway) in comparison.
Haven't had chance to visit any yet but I agree with this. Have a look at the youtube channel 'the smoking tire' the chap drives the roads that are worth going to.PCH is a snore (and virtually a motorway) in comparison.
PCH is amazing if you've never done it before, but only really gets interesting between Monterey and San Francisco in my opinion.
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