Planet 9

We all have our favourite roads for those spirited drives, well I've just found mine. Where I live in Victoria, the Great Ocean Road, is quoted as being one of the great driving roads in the world. Great scenery, however lots of cars and police mean it's not as fun as it could be.

Well, drove the Reefton Spur, an hours drive from Melbourne, in the Yarra Valley ranges yesterday and omg, what a road, a real porsche road. It contains 165 bends in 18 km (11.25 miles). Very smooth tarmac, great scenery. There are 50km of great roads either side of the spurr to wet your appetite before you tackle this amazing road. A few bikes let me through and when i pulled up at the end of the drive, they stopped to and asked if my car was a turbo or was 4wd it was that fast and handled the corners so well, they were very impressed, Cayman converts in the making. What a great day, what a great car.

Tell me about your favourite road.

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Great road that, your lucky to be able to drive it so close to home.

You are indeed very fortunate!

I live in Florida and unfortunately we don't have excellent driving roads-at least none that I have discovered. The road surfaces are almost always well-paved-very few potholes, which is nice-but the roads are incredibly boring.

If any Florida posters know of any hidden gems in our state, I would love to know where they are.

I live about 30 minutes from the base of the Pocono Mts, there are tons of twisty roads and I have been riding motorcycles on them for 37 years. My friends joke that I know every road within 100 miles. I have been afraid of putting the Croc deep into the woods. Been trying to be careful till I understand how to drive this thing...Tough job but someone has got to do it...

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1. CA-18 (Waterman Cyn.)
2. Shoreline Dr. (Long Beach Grand Prix)

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"Don't give up, don't ever give up !"
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Hawk's Nest (RT. 97) in Port Jervis, NY. Short but sweet!

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Pete
2008 Meteor Grey Cayman S
2007 Blue Slate Infiniti G35s 6-speed

Sadly, there are no good roads around here. ()

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Been there on bike, guess the Croc needs to get there...

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Oh there are so many but here's my faves in no particular order:

1. Sea to Sky Highway from from Vancouver to Whistler (Vancouver, BC)
2. NZ Highway 1 from Whangarei to Cape Reinga (North Island, NZ)
3. Mulholland Highway - all of it (Socal)
4. CA Highway 58 from SLO to the 5 (Central Cal)
5. CA 1 from SLO to Monterey (Norcal)
6. Lake Hughes Road (Socal)
7. Angeles Crest Highway (if there were no cops) (Socal)

Give me any decent car, a tank full of gas and any of the above and I will have a permagrin.

Here's one in Africa for those that travel:
Chapman's Peak Drive - Scenic route from Noordhoek to Hout Bay

May I offer for your consideration:

Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap, NC

318 curves in 11 miles.

Chuck

p.s. G'Day Downunderporsche, from a former Lower Templestowe resident, and Camberwell Grammarian.

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Any of the roads on Point Reyes, CA especially a short, but very sweet one, from the Purple Bridge to Olema. On the weekends put the blades on your wheels cause it's full of bicyclers from Marin who think they own it.

+1 for:

The Tail of the Dragon

Sea to Sky Hwy - Vancouver to Whistler

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Alan C.
Cincinnati

2011 Carrera GTS Basalt Black/Black - PDK, LSD, Sharkwerks Center Muffler Delete, Forgeline GA3 Center Locks, MPSS

G'day to you both, from a former South Yarra and Glen Iris resident. I felt compelled to look up Camberwell Grammar and found it on page 46 A8 of my Melway. The Melway sits 3' from my left shoulder when I'm online, for no reason other than when I read The Age for Melbourne news I sometimes like to look up locations.

Oh, and I always loved the road out to the Grampians (forget its name) and the road to Healesville from Melbourne.

That looks like a great road, fantastic scenery.

Awesome looking road, tho looks pretty busy. One thing about some of the country roads in Aus, you have them to yourself mid week. I'm actually orgininally from Queensland, but have been in Victoria for the last 10 years. I'm heading to Tassy next month to trace some of the targa route, should be fun.

Just get out there and ring it's neck, one of the easier and more rewarding cars to drive fast and hard, very forgiving. The car will thank you for it.

Downunderporsche,

Every time I go skiing at Fallscreek (traveling via bus), the conversation alludes to "how about driving your Porsche up the Mountain". Sadly, then I miss the Cayman.

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2010 Cayman S, special build.

Yeah, a road that good draws all kinds, and kind of defeats the purpose. Fortunately we have some less traveled routes in the northeast Georgia mountains that rival the dragon.

Have fun in Tasmania,

Chuck

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It's been over 30 years since I was in Victoria, so my memory has faded, but I remember there were some roads out near Dandenong that were entertaining. Mom's Datsun 1600 (510 in the States) was regularly abused, nice little car to learn in.

Cheers,
Chuck

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