[Sharroll Celby]

The Location: Angeles Crest Highway in Northern Los Angeles County
The Destination: Newcomb's Ranch, a popular roadside diner frequented by sport bikes, Harley-type cruisers, and Hot Rodders.
The Participants: Lynn Park in one of his 427 Street Cobras (undercar exhaust, and a HARDTOP!); another original 427 Competition Cobra, driven by its owner who happens to have ANOTHER 427 Comp Cobra; an original 289 Cobra driven by its owner, and yours truly in his fiberglass replica.

Angeles Crest Highway is a two-lane road from the 210 Freeway north, passing 3 or 4 ski resorts, past the quaint town of Wrightwood, then finally meeting up with I 15, the road to Las Vegas.

We left Lynn Park's house about 10:30, and headed north up "the Crest". The Crest is your typical CURVY mountain road, with the longest straight stretch about 100 yards long, and the straight stretches are few and far apart.

We averaged about 45 MPH, just a leisurely cruise really, with a few bursts on the straights up to maybe 80 MPH, then HARD on the brakes to set up for the next turn.

We had a nice late breakfast/early lunch, then back down the mountain. The weather was perfect, high 60's to low 70's, and we passed quite a few areas of snow still piled against the granite mountain on the northern, shaded sides of the road.