{"id":18944,"date":"2012-05-16T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T00:44:18","slug":"road-trippin-bangshift-hits-the-road-with-the-2012-car-craft-magazine-anti-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/general-news\/road-trippin-bangshift-hits-the-road-with-the-2012-car-craft-magazine-anti-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trippin’: BangShift Hits the Road With the 2012 Car Craft Magazine Anti-Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – I had been hitting up the Car Craft Magazine’s Anti-Tour since 2006 when we headed down to San Diego to hit up Race Legal’s Friday Night Drags at the parking lot of Qualcomm Stadium (Or, whatever they call it these days). But, I haven’t gone since 2009 when the Tour drove out in the desert to Firebird Raceway near Chandler, AZ to go drag racing. That’s what I liked about the Anti-Tour. They drove someplace cool and we beat on our cars.<\/div>\n
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I fell off the wagon for a couple years. In 2010, they headed out to Pheonix to go to a car show, but mostly got rained on. Last year, they drove up to the coast to Morro Bay for a car show in downtown. I didn’t go in 2010 because I didn’t feel like driving seven hours across the desert just park my car in front of a lawn chair. Last year, I missed the Anti-Tour because I was on a cruise to Italy and Greece. At least our ship wasn’t run aground by a captain showing off and we missed riots in Athens because they had a soccer game that day.<\/div>\n
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When I heard the itinerary for this year’s Anti-Tour; I surprised to hear that they were repeating last year’s tour. The dudes over at Car Craft decided to hit up the big show in Morro Bay again. I was a bit let down. I was hoping to go and pound on my Impala again on the drag strip or autocross, not drive all the way up there just to sit at a car show.<\/div>\n
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I talked to some of the regulars of the Anti-Tour and the consensus was that it was a great time. Also, I never been to Morro Bay and was curious to explore another town in the giant state of California. We also wouldn’t taking the boring freeways there and I’m always for a drive on the side roads.<\/div>\n
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This year the meet up and kick off point was at Wilwood Brake’s headquarters in Camarillo, CA. To get there, I had a couple choices; drive my ’65 Impala SS up the Hwy 101 in morning traffic, or take the Pacific Coast Highway up to Camarillo. I took the latter for no other reason is that it’s a gorgeous drive at sunrise.<\/div>\n
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Once at Wilwood’s facility, the guys from Wilwood gave us a great tour of their facility in action. Unfortunately, pictures weren’t allowed on the work room floor, so all I have are these two of a ’69 Camaro getting it’s suspension digitized for a new disc brake setup. I was amazed how many brake systems they make for the car and truck manufacturers. They whittle so many brake calipers that they sweep up 30 tons of aluminum to be recycled each month!!<\/div>\n
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After the tour, we had a kick off car show right in Wilwood’s parking lot. Check out the gallery of pictures we took that morning while downing bagels and coffee with our other two hands.<\/div>\n
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