I had planned on doing AKA Rally 2006.5 Fall Rally since Chris Conner (the organizer) had told me about it earlier this year. Well, needless to say I was a bit short on a car. So I traded my father the jeep for his 330i and figured “fuck it, I wont be fast, but I’ll still have fun”. Well Thursday, on my way out of town dmoffitt called me asking if he could borrow the Jeep. Well, jokingly I told him that if I could have the APS TT 350z for the weekend, he could have the jeep. To my surprise, he agreed. So two hours later we were swapping all 3 cars and I was getting prepared to leave. The plan was to drive to Boston Thursday night, stay with my friend Luke, and meet up with some fellow ralliers at the Burlington Mall the next day at lunch time.
Cruising up from the 4 of us meeting in Burlington MA.
New M6!
This woman JUMPED when Dale rolled up.
Day 1 + 2: Bar Harbor, Maine and travel to Boston After the Welcome Party at a bar in downtown Bar Harbor, to much champaigne and entirely to many jaeger bombs and other assorted drinks later we all somehow made it back to the hotel (and various other places that I didnt know existed). Morning rolled around and we all slowly made our way out into the crisp morning air to sticker up our cars, see who showed up in the middle of the night, etc. Total for the rally ended up being 33 people IIRC, with people showing up right up until 5am or so.
DAN MOTHERFUCKIN CONNERRRRRRRRR!
We saw this amazing rock wall near a giant expansion bridge being built, my photos sucked from it, hence the lack of them. But it was pretty impressive, we only found it because we turned the wrong way on Rt 1a, and then had to turn around cough whip donuts in the middle of Rt 1a cough.
More photos + Day 2 and 3 commentary coming momentarily, plus some short video clips that have made it online!
Yeah, I’m sure when someone calls in a complain on a Skyline, a 350z and a Cayenne turbo they’ll find the other Skyline, 350z, Cayenne Turbo caravan on the highway…:roll:
After the gorgeous backroads of Maine, we went to dinner at some high end backwoods resteraunt based in an old Meeting Hall/church. The food was amazing, but the service was a bit ehhh and needless to say, I was pissed when my plate got cleared when I went to the restroom. After dinner ended up splitting into several smaller groups of 3 or 4 and heading out to the Boston Westin.
Day 3 - Boston to NYC
Unfortunetly the guy who was hired to drive our party bus (complete with stripper pole) bailed on us after calling to say he was on the way. So we spent the night in various rooms around the hotel, and at the hotel bar. The night ended eventually with the Boston PD threatening a K9 unit. Yeah, we’re loud, and you wanna bring in a German shepard, good idea, I’m sure that’ll be really quiet. He then told us that we better not just move down to Rm 514 next… Which oddly wasnt even one of our rooms, but I suppose there must’ve been 2 kilos of coke down there or something. :roll:
Back on the road, goals of the day were some nuts back roads, the Mohawk Valley Trail, and a nice hairpin turn
Waiting for those who were getting tickets cough Art cough
Let me clarify the "pulled over comment from above. We were cruising at a decent rate of speed down some random ass highway in Mass, we came over a rise saw a state trooper about a mile up behind another rise/turn and all got on the brakes and put the cruise on in the right lane. This guy had BALLS, he walked out into the road and started pointing people to the shoulder. I think 5 or 6 people got pulled over total, the rest of us went down the road and sat in a gas station until we heard on the scanner that more were coming for us. So we all booked out of there. Dan in the blue M3 was still filling up though and was surrounded by 4 cops and recieved a ticket or two for “Unsafe speed” or some bull shit like that because they never clocked us.
“Dan your mother says to put your ass back in your pants!”
Mike Boost OUT!
The next 6 hours of my life.
My weekend ended with an electrical issue in the 350z, a fusable link popped along with a few other things, AS I PULLED INTO THE PARKING SPOT at the final hotel. I got pushed the last few feet into the spot. I then spent a few hours drinking/trouble shooting the car throughout the night and another 3 in the morning. AAA was needless to say, useless. I called them at 10am, at 2:30pm I finally got a tow, after argueing with the woman on the phone about why I needed a flatbed, not a dolley. Rediculous, they’ll be recieving a letter. I then went to two Nissan dealers, where every tech in the building came out to check out the car, until their bosses yelled at them to get back to work and told me they couldnt get me in for 2 days (FUCK THAT). Which is when the flatbed blew a hydrolic line, stranding the Z on the truck bed… my day just kept getting better and better. We ended up back at this shady ass repair shop the truck was based out of, where after about 10 minutes of dicking around their “head mechanic” was done asking me if I was “a fucking idiot” or did I check all the basics? He and I got the car running again, I stuffed the bumper into the hatch and was FINALLY on my way.
Getting gas a few miles from home. Just after I got pulled, no ticket though!
Overall, as always, the weekend was absolutely amazing, from the parties, to the roads, to the people I met. Lifetime memories for sure. Chris Conner (AKA CEO) put on another stellar event and I certainly plan on attending the summer rally in '07. I highly recommend all of you do the same. Anyway, on that note, here are a few videos that have sneaked online so far.
Sadly, I dont have photos of us ambushing my codriver (who was sleeping) at 5am in NYC, and duct taping him in his sheets, or me drinking a 30 rack on the street in time square with the homeless dude with the signs that say “ninjas killed my family, need money for kung fu lessons”. But we do have video of all of that, along with the homeless dude kung fu’ing a light post!
Oh yeah, and a HUGE thanks to Dave Moffitt for loaning me the Z. I cant thank him enough. I owe you some tires though
