Canadian cars rulled the rally this year!
2 996's a 360 and a Murcielago all from Ontario, were some of the fastest cars there.

The German guys were hard to catch in there SL 55 AMG's, as they were driving flat out most of the way.



We had a hard time on the run this year, We had troubles starting the Nsx on the 2nd day.
It was stalling out at 100mph+, we lost a cap to the header sensors, and had to find a all night Home Depot to get a couple of brass fittings.
Then the Nsx blew a tire, so one of the chase trucks picked him up.
We couldn't get a tire anywere, so we had the Tire Rack ship us one to Denver, then we took off the rim and it was cracked.
We tried to find someone to fix it but had no luck.
So we left the Nsx in Aspen, to be picked up later.

The first day I rode in a Murcielago (sp) the 2nd day in the Nsx.
The 3rd day in Dado's 500 hp M3, the 4th day I dove a Ferrari TR through Kanasas flat out 178mph.
The 5th day in a modifed white 930.
On the 6th day I rode in a yellow 996, and NYSE guy and I had some fun with a 360 stradle.
The 7th day I rode in a 360 spyder, and a Dodge Hemi wagon.

When I was driving from KC to denver we hit hail, dust storms, wicked thunder storms, high winds, and tons of tumble weeds at 150mph+.

We had a track day in Topeka, and I rode in a M3 and we chased 2 F40's around the track for ten laps.

No tickets for me this year, or jail time.

Some other problems were.
Magusta blew a tire DNF.
Yellow viper out with steering problems.
Blue Corvette blown motor DNF.
Yellow GT3 blew a tire.
SL 55 blew a tire.
350z blew a tire
General Lee needed new wheel bearings.
Testerossa needed a new battery.
Prodrive SUV concept car was impounded by police, for no plates, no ins, no sn number.
996 broke a steering linkage, then he lost his clutch, and had to power shift the rest of the way.

993 hit a bird at 150+ shattered the windshield, got a new one installed and it was too small. Then he blew the motor on the track, when he missed a shift. He shipped the car to LA and installed a new motor, so he could finish the race.

Some of my pics.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286559073

The Enzo didn't make it on the run this year, the dealer in Denver started the car when it was cold a reved it up, it bent a few valves. They had to fly in a crew from Ferrari to pull the engine and fix it.
The owner of the Enzo has a 70+ car collection, he owns the S7 that joined us in Denver. He drove it hard and fast, until it started blowing oil all over the Ferraris behind him. They had to tow it to LA for repairs. DNF
Some one in Denver was driving a 959 on the street in the rain, and stoped to talk to us.
The Vector showed up at the end of the race for 2 hours, they slapped some stickers on it like it was in the race, but it only made it four blocks before it over heated.

Next year I want Tire Rack to sponsor my car, there were 11 people who had tire's blow out. We went from cold weather to hot in a few hours, most people didn't check there psi and paid the price.

We got it bad in Kansass, the police gave us an escort out of town, then 3 hours later they were waiting for us everywhere.
8 people went to jail, most got out after paying 500 bucks.
One person spent 3 days there for avoiding the police he was going over 180+.

At one point I was in the 500+ hp BMW M3, and we were in the lead when we had to pull over to rotate our tires.
When we pulled up to the Goodyear tire, 3 guy's came out and started going crazy shouting your the guys.
They had been listing to the police scanner and heard that we had been clocked at 184mph. The police were setting up a road block 2 miles ahead for us.
Good thing we got off!

They couldn't rotate our tires because our rims were to big, so they sent us around the road block to another tire shop.
They took pics with us and the car, and made us sign autographs.
I was a rock star for a day.LOL

 

Damn does that sound fun...how i wish i could've joined it...but don't have the mula to waste just like that

 

Video clip
http://www.team-smiley.net/~walrus/movies/prhigh.zip


http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.j...ide%3dtrue&Ux=0

http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.j...ide%3dtrue&Ux=0

http://enjoy.childsale.net/players%20run.htm

http://homepage.mac.com/iluv2xlr8/D...otoAlbum16.html

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbro...selected=903911

http://www.kcpimp.com/gallery/playersrun2004

http://www.importvelocity.org/Video...rsRunLaunch.wmv

 

Bryan, glad you posted those! I'm getting ready to put some video on to dvds to send out to everyone. I have some more pics I'll post up soon.

Ed

 

Wow, this is way cool ... How did the S7 do?
Do you have any pics of the impounded Prodrive SUB prototype? Have no idea what it looks like ...
Thanks for sharing, sounded like a great time!

 

The S7 ended up spewing oil all over the Murci's on the way to vegas.... Ill try to dig up pics later of the Prodrive SUV later, it's basically a hopped up Inifiniti Suv

Ed

 

Day 1
I showed up to the USS Intrepid. were we were starting the race, there were a few Canadian's there standing around waiting for there cars to show up.
There was a semi truck there that had the Eleanor and a ford mustang on it ready to go. At first glance they looked like some one had done a nice restoration job on them. But when they fired them up and backed it of the truck, you could tell they mean bossiness. They were hand built from the ground up. Big brakes, lowered, custom frame work, tuned engine, etc.
This was not my fathers Oldsmobile if you know what I mean. For 100.000 to 150.000 you can have one custom built to your own specs. The guys who built these works of art, were the coolest guys on the rally,

I was checking out the Eleanor gone in 60 second's car, when a few big.....no.....HUGE body guards brush me aside. I looked over and there was Nicholas Cage checking out the car.
They fired it up for him, he said awesome car and went back to work.
Turns out they were shooting his new movie on the same aircraft carrier that we were starting our race on.
They would not let us take pics, as he was in costume at the time. Sorry your just going to have to believe me on this one.

This year there were a few Canadian's besides me, all from Ontario, and they all brought there a game.
red 360, black 996, silver 996, yellow Mercilago.
A few of the guy's were held up at customs and missed there flight's.
We sat around waiting for the truck to show up as people started to trickle in.
Some of the cars at the start were.

4 360's Yellow, red, blue, and black.
360 spider red.
F40lm red.
F40 red
355 spider yellow.
348 spider blue.
456 grey.
Testerrosa black
308 red
2 Mercilago's green, and yellow.
Diablo yellow
Bmw M3 silver, Dado's yellow M3.
Bmw Z3
Bmw Z4
3 MB SL 55's all silver.
Nsx TT red.
General Lee.
12 Smart car's.
Viper black.
3 996's silver, black, yellow
4 993's silver, black, yellow, blue
968 white
Boxster
Hot Rod silver
Mini Cooper black
Magusta bronze
Prodrive SUV grey
Z06 red
Shelby GT silver
Lincoln black
Dodge Hemi wagon black
And they were more still coming in when we left for drinks.

 

Day 2 the start
I was running late after getting in at 430am and all hungover, so I slapped on my costume to get in the spirit of things and garbed cab it to the pier.
When I pulled up there were about 200 people out front waiting for the start.
Don't you people have jobs?

Turns out Arie Luyendyk Jr was not going to make it, so I jumped in his seat for the first leg of the rally.
In a brand new yellow Murcielago, I tried to get on the pier to join my ride but security would not let me in.
I guess they didn't like my Hanson brothers outfit,
So I stood out front to film the start in the middle of the intersection, next to one of New York finest.
The cars were tearing out of there, the crowd went nuts when the General Lee came out and hit his horns.
The yellow lambo was the last car out, he did a burn out right next to the police that were holding up traffic, then he stooped in the middle of the intersection to pick me up.
The crowd went nuts, the NYPD guy's were not to impressed.

We were the last ones through time square and got a little lost, so we made up some time with all that hp under the hood.
A half hour later we caught up to a good size pack, and slowed down a bit.
We were leading the group coming over a hill when we got nailed, 102 in a 65. Ouch.

We watched about 20+ cars pass us, as we were getting are awards for stupidity.
We thanked the officer and were on our way again, when we passed a rest stop and there were the 20+ cars with all the drivers standing there clapping and cheering us on.
We stopped and traded stories with them, and we were off again.
2 hours later we were leading the pack coming over a hill when it happened again, this time we were really moving along. We saw him hiding at the last second we jammed on the brakes, too late he pulled out behind us.
He passed everyone else and pulled us over, we stopped on the shoulder. Just then the car's idle started jumping around from running so hard, the cop thought we were going to take off so he got on the loud speaker and started yelling at us to shut down the engine.
We didn't hear him, so he came along side our car with his gun pointed at me.
The window's were tinted and rolled down 1/4 of the way, so he started yelling at us...show me your hands!
Turn off the engine! We shut it off but then we couldn't roll down the windows. That pissed the cop right off, Show me your hands NOW!!
Roll down your windows NOW!!!
We got the windows down, so he put his gun away.

What the hell is going on here?
Who gave you permission to speed on my highway?
We tried to explain to him that we were a couple of dumb Cunucks travailing through, but he was not buying it.
Do you know how fast you were going?
We said we were going 140.
He just stared at us with the most puzzled look on his face.
Until we told him that are Speedo was in kilometers per hour, and we had know idea what that was in mph.
He went back to his car and checked his Speedo, and told us we should not go over 119kl that is the speed limit. Then he gave us some more awards to add to are growing collection, he chewed us out for a few minutes and told us they had towed 4 cars already and slow down.
It was good advice so we took it easy, as NY is a little to close to Canada.

Everyone was waiting at the next toll both for us, cheering and waving at us .

We stopped and waited for the rest of the cars to show up. When the Testerrosa battery went dead, everyone had started to leave so we stayed to help.
He had some cables, but we could not figure out were the battery was on our car,
So I flagged down a pick up truck and we jumped it.
We made it to the border (home) in short time, skipped across to Niagara on the lake. For a helicopter ride around the falls, and a nice dinner.
I then joined Nick in our Nsx for the trip to Cleveland, the people at the toll booths warned us that the police we setting up a speed trap to catch us.
So we took it slow for the next 10 miles.
Getting back into the US was a pain for some of the drivers, one guy was delayed for 3 hours as they searched the car and ran vin numbers.
A few people stayed on the US side waiting for us to come back, because they were from other countries and didn't want to take a chance on getting back in.
The road to Cleveland was dull and boring, we avg, 120mph most of the way.
We got close to Cleveland when we had some engine trouble, the cap that goes on the header came off and was shooting flames in the engine bay.
We were getting really bad gas mileage, lees than 150 per tank full it should have been 300 per.
We had to find a all night Home Depot to get a few brass fittings for the headers.
I went in to get them, and was stopped right away by security. They thought I was going to rob the place, because I still had my costume on.
They escorted me through the building then to the check out and out the door.
The car was to hot to fix so we drove to the Ritz and parked it for the night.

 

Thanks for sharing the write up (very nice, btw), this is way cool!!!!
Can't wait for the rest!!!

 

Dude who are you. I own and drove the 800hp 993 twin and you never rode with me. If you did you would have known ,for 1 this was the fastest car at the Players Run 2004. The only person who was brave enough to hang was Dato. The same day I blew the engine was the same day he went to jail. So how did you ride with me> Much love to the Canadians who were there. I am now friends with most of them. They will also tell you the same, my 993 is a 240mph car. Who else can say that.....

 

What's up Adrien!! Prova4re is Brian. Glad to see you made it back home ok. Give me a call later today

Ed

 

this is way to cool.....!

 

Adrian, welcome to this fine board!!!

--tyson.

 

Whats bup everybody! Glad to be back in cali, well not really but what the hell. The fun can't last for ever. What's up Tyson. I was really looking forward to seeing you in La but Ed told me you were in the Windy City. No worries. The car is back with Todd being re built and ready for next time, or should I say anytime. I will come down to La pretty soon again. We need to get together. Ed, Whats up. How are things in Fl. I heard the weather is not to nice. I have been getting a lot of invites to other ralleys. If they pan out I will let you know. I am glad you turned me on to 6speedonline. Great site. I will call you later. Peace for now. Talk to you all soon.

 

What's up Adrian?
I rode in the white Porsche that day, I think his plate said 968.

You did have the fastest car there, the only cars that were close was Rollands F40lm, and Dado's M3.

I should have said, the Canadian guys were the fastest everyday.
As you have quite a few problems along the way, you did have the best spirit of all the people there.

Adrian would be the first one to the hotel, the first 3 nights.
When we got there he was holding court, telling everyone about his daily adventure's. They could have made a movie just about him and what he went through, it would be a block buster.
My hats off to you. Can't wait to run with you next year.

Day 3
Cleveland to Chicago

I woke up early to work on our car, it would not start. I tried for 10 minutes to get it going, finally it started.
I had to drive it out of the parking garage, so I could see what I was doing.
I pulled up in front of the line waiting for our police escort, there was a 993 right next to us that hit a crow at 150+, the bird had smashed the windscreen and its legs were stuck in side the hood vent.
I grabbed the floor mats from our car and put them on our engine so I could crall up there and fix it.
It was still hot from the short drive, so I had to get a bucket of water to cool down the header.
I got the fitting on the header with out a problem, but when we went to start it wound not catch.
15 minutes went buy, and I finally got it to start, the camera crews were filming us working on the car the whole time.
I felt like I was on Monster garage, and Jesse was going to jump out and tell me I failed.
The police came and escorted us on the highway, the F40's led the way followed by most of the Ferrari's and Lambo's. We ran up the side of the pack so we could film it, just when we got behind the 2 F40's the car quit.
It just stalled out going 100mph, with 5 million dollars worth of cars running right behind us.
We started to move to the shoulder when we were over taken on both sides by the mob of cars, it made for some great video.
The car glided to a halt on the side of the road, right next to the motor cycle cops that had been escorting us.
I got the car started again, and we were off, until we hit 100 mph then it died again.
We let the car sit for 10 minutes, then we jumped back on the highway keeping it under 100.
I thought it might be bad gas, so we ran it down to empty then we filled up again.
New gas made the car run better, so it was time to catch up to the rest of the pack.
We caught most of them a few hours outside Chicago, we saw the German guy's getting pulled over in there SL's for the 2nd time today.
We pulled over at a rest stop near the tire rack, there were over 30 of us getting gas and eating.
There were so many people stopping to take pic's, and talk to us that it created a big traffic jam. They couldn't fit any more cars in the rest stop.
So guy in the botth asked us to leave, and it turned into something like the old LeMans Races, were the drivers run to there car jump in and floor it.
30 cars racing for the entrance ramp that is only one lane wide, and we were running 3 abreast .That video is going to be insane.

There were people following us with video cameras for miles, they even stopped when we did.
We went over to a few of the that had been with us for a hour or so, they told us they had been waiting for us for three hours.
They found out that we were coming from the net, and wanted to take some pics standing next to the cars.
It was crazy,,,,,,,, every car we passed had a video camera pointed at us.

We decided to step up the pace, so we could ditch all the poperratzi.
When we got to Chicago we hit rush hour traffic........at 4.00 on a Sunday??? The pack broke up quickly, and it became a game of survival.
There were people diving from lane to lane, trying to get a look at the F40 and the Lambo's.
We quickly found another route to the hotel.
Later that night we went on a cruse, for dinner and drinks. Then we tore up Rush street, and called it a night at 4am.