I’ve left New York. What started as a ten-day trip to hammer out some business with Alex turned into five weeks of sleeping on his blue velour sectional, plenty of brainstorming, a ton of new friends and adventures the wooly world of startups that I couldn’t conceive of when I boarded that eastbound redeye in Sacramento over 4th of July weekend. But come to an end it has. We’re off to Monterey in 144B. We’ve enlisted the talents of Autoblog’s resident Northern California boy, Damon Lavrinc, to handle additional driving duties. We’re also attempting to warp the poor man’s brain. We’ve never attempted a driveplan that involved meeting an airline flight before, but that’s exactly what we’ll be attempting this time when we pick up Liz Moses.
She claims that she’ll bring some much-needed sense to the proceedings, but we’re a bit curious as to how much sense anyone who hitches a ride in a fake German police car crewed by a bald man, a bearded man and a blogging man could possibly have. Nevertheless, we intend to make our trek a memorable one. We’ll be broadcasting live video from Seero, as well as putting together one of our signature maps. We’ll be ruminating on the nature of driving in today’s America, passing through hamlets large and small as we travel the entire length of Interstate 80 — from the George Washington Bridge in New York to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, then tooling down 101 through Silicon Valley and south to Steinbeck Country — where we’ll take in the goings on during what’s internationally recognized as the most fantastic collection of automotive events in one weekend. If you call yourself a car guy and haven’t made it to Monterey, mark your calendars. And once you experience it, you’ll want to come back every year.
A big congratulations and thanks to our old friend Brian Scotto, founder of the all-new car enthusiast magazine 0-60, whose gorgeous inaugural issue looks and feels like an American version of EVO - my long-time favorite of the UK car mags. Autoblog agrees, calling 0-60 "…a reason to wait by the mailbox again…"
Brian was kind enough to feature my Polizei M5 in the front of the first issue - with a full two-page photospread of the interior taken by master car photographer Jonathan Bushell - but you’ll have to buy it on the news-stand to see it.
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day#6 shows one of our first tests of the Raytheon Thermal Night Vision system custom (and expertly) installed by AI Design last year. The black & white image is displayed on an Alpine display center-mounted atop the dash and angled toward the driver. A second Alpine display is mounted below the passenger-side airbag.
I’ve been getting some comments and a lot of e-mails asking for a full technical break down of what the hell all the gear is in Wallpaper of the Day#5. Ever since I pulled down my (somewhat dated) Polizei M5 Spec page last week, I’ve been getting an increasing number of such questions.
So…I promise that as soon as I get beck from Waterfest tomorrow, I’ll work double-quick on getting the all-new and updated spec page complete!
There will be some things I’ve got to keep secret until release of The Driver in October. Once you’ve read it, you’ll understand why.
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