Its over 9000!

I took the P-car on the first really long adventure today. Drove her to Snowbowl resort in Flagstaff,AZ. 9,500 feet elevation at the base, 11,500 at the top. Car did well at high elevation, expected power loss, but no drivability issues. On the way back, I ended up driving through monumental thunderstorm for hours. Had to slow down to 50MPH because the rain was so hard.

Drive back video. Warning: not for fair weather drivers or garage queen owners, might cause heart attack. http://s251.photobucket.com/user/lon...be071.mp4.html

Cool pics, but will look better with some snow on the slopes.

Nice pics. Looks like a fun trip

I get close to 9,000 feet going to the grocery store! Glad you had a fun trip and a nice drive. These cars are a blast to drive on a twisty mountain road.

On the freeway in that kind of rain I slow way down and get in the right lane. This lane is usually drier as the big rigs tend to remove some water. Their drivers have a better view too so they tend to react sooner to trouble ahead so you can an earlier warning something's amiss. But still give yourself plenty of room to react and slow down just in case. Also, I get over and slow down not only to ensure the car doesn't hydroplane but to let the speeding idiots pass in the left lane and to give myself an extra margin of safety and time to react in case one of the passing vehicles hydroplanes and spins out in front of me. Oftentimes (with no guard rail) they'll spin out into the median but just in case they don't I want to be able to slow/stop and avoid any contact. Last but not least if due to real bad visibility if you ever have to pull over try to take an off ramp and and then drive up it and down on to the on ramp side so your tail lights are not visible to traffic coming from behind. In real bad weather with very low visibility following traffic will use the tail lights of the vehicle in front and can drive right into the back of your car if you just pull over on the shoulder of the road.

I thought I was going to have a heart attack, waiting, waiting, waiting for my computer buffering and showing your vid in 10 second increments. Had my C2 Cab in the pouring rain a couple of times from Rock Springs to SLC and Elko to SLC @ 125+ mph, didn't need wipers as rain was deflected over the windshield. Roads were straight and tires felt secure. I used to race motorcycles, a few times in the rain, a bit un-nerving when over 130 on 2 wheels, then having to brake as hard as possible without upsetting your grip.

Cool pics, but why did someone pile all those rocks there?

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I thought it would be like buckets of rain pouring on the windshield. I've ridden in weather like that in Colorado on a R1200RT BMW, at the 10,000 foot level.

125+ mph in heavy rain is impressive and bit insane. I've driven in heavy rain in my Boxster and my Turbo (and other cars too) and even with new tires 125mph would have been too fast. My experience is the tires just can't deal with that much water. At legal speeds in some areas where the road surface tends to let water puddle sometimes in long troughs where the tires roll the car will get light. At speed I would be afraid the car would be off the road before I knew it. There is the problem too of spray from other cars, big rigs, which if the wind is just right can have one driving into a blinding spray of water. Even at slower speeds visibility has been reduced to just a few car lengths. I've heard CB radio traffic that the big rig drivers have a tough time seeing "4-wheelers" under these conditions so I always drive with my car lights on. There is in some areas the concern about debris on the road. On 50 highway west of Austin NV came upon some rocks -- one the size of a 19" TV -- in a sharp turn in the road in the lane going in the other direction. The rocks had fallen down helped no doubt by the unseasonable wet weather. Part of the drive from the CA/NV state line had me in bright sunshine, torrential downpours, even lighting/thunder and some hail. I was going slow so had the rocks been in my lane I would have had time to react. However, there is another risk: animals. It was on this trip not too far down the road towards Ely NV that a mule deer stepped out from behind a guard rail and ended the trip for me and my car. No way I'd drive 125mph in wet weather.

great pics and vid ! PS. driving thru storms like that, I put my blinkers on so other cars see me, great tip I picked up driving down south in Florida storms

Looks like a fun trip. Thanks for sharing the photos

Ditto. Makes me look forward to a road trip I've penciled in scheduled in a few weeks if things work out.