Quote from 56Hotrod :

...Have you ever driven up to or around Highlands GA (I think it is something like that)? If I remember correctly, it is highway 15? There are some fantastic little sprints up there. From the map, it looks like it is near Dahlonega.

Good stuff.

I found out, it is actually Highlands, NC - but I pass through a lovely part of GA getting there. Looks like it is Highway 28:
http://local.live.com/default. ... 68207fx_Highlands%2c%20NC

I agree. I wish the US or States would mandate more strict forms of testing to dish out licenses. Idiot drivers in America are why we'll never get an autobaun. My biggest pep peeve is people that don't adhear to "slower traffic keep right". They are so afraid, that if they move over, they'll never get to maintain their 5mph over the speed limit - and get trapped driving just under the speed limit. So they stay left, and doddle past at 1mph faster than the right lane. Then there's those folks that just have no clue - with no one in front of them, and won't get over to the right. Argg. If I lived around Atlanta, my blood pressure would go through the roof.

Lateralus, I envy you. I love Boone. I plan on having a nice cabin up on some mountain there when I retire. Boone/Banner Elk/Blowing Rock have some fantastic roads...and are right at the Blue Ridge Parkway. I'm in Greenville, SC - so it is about the same (3 hours to the Gap).

XCNuse - I was in your neighborhood today. Visiting one of our manufacturing plants in Duluth. Atlanta has to be one of the top 5 worst places to live as far as traffic in the US...luckily, there are some escapes around. Have you ever driven up to or around Highlands GA (I think it is something like that)? If I remember correctly, it is highway 15? There are some fantastic little sprints up there. From the map, it looks like it is near Dahlonega.

Good stuff.

Growing up driving the gap, you learn real quick, that you are going to die, or kill someone else if you don't maintain your lanes. Everytime I go, I stress this to the people we're with (the Subi guy was outside of our group I think).

Yes, Darryl is a helluva guy. His EVO is NUTS...I've been frequenting his killboy.com site for years. I just ordered up one of the pics his crew took of my car last month:


They do fantastic work.

I grew up in Tennessee. Went to college in Maryville, then the University of Tennessee. Gap is about 30 minutes from Maryville - and I visited it once a month or so. I now live in South Carolina and miss being close to the gap. I've had a whole lot of fun up there in various cars and my old GSXR-750...but I sold it to get a 2003 Evolution (Buschur stage III). Just got back last month from a trip up there in the EVO. Amazing ride - even though it was raining. Here's a full run (rainy) of the gap [150mb]:
http://www.steven-laura.net/Steven/Videos/dealsgap8.wmv

If someone made a track based on Deal's Gap...I'd be a happy man.