Autotrain for polkfest?

ohskigod
ohskigod Posts: 6,502
edited May 2011 in The Clubhouse
Considering doing the amtrack Autotrain for polkfest. Anyone else from the northeast doing that? Just checking opinions to see if there is anything I am kidding about going this route. I am digging having my car there and avoiding the tsa hullabaloo for such a short trip
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    I don't see why it wouldn't work. I've heard good and bad things about it but, like TireRack.com, you have to wade through the garbage to find the real valuable opinions. Unfortunately, like TireRack.com, 90% of the opinions/reviews are nothing more than adults acting like petulant children with unrealistic expectations. Some people seem to think the train should only take a couple of hours but it takes a good bit of time. Plan some extra travel days in there. Also, check fares and any extra fees that might be included. It might end up being more expensive than just driving. Then again, the train allows you to sit on your butt, take a nap, have a few beverages or whatever while someone else deals with the drive and any traffic that might ensue.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,611
    edited May 2011
    Wouldnt it be ideal for the person heading furthest north to pick up everyone between their house and flordia that is going and everyone split gas??? ;)
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited May 2011
    The drive from my house is silly long. No effing way I am driving the whole thing. Call me lazy

    I figured the Autotrain would be nice as I could avoid car rental and long drive. Problem is round trip with a sleeping berth was 800 and change. Sleeping in a **** recliner for 17 hours? Eff thT noise

    Already booked airfair. 320 round trip. Also have to take 2 less days off to account for train travel. Flying in Friday morning. Leaving Monday noonish. Gives a free day to hit a park if I choose Win!!!



    Just gotta rent a car and I'm good to go.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2011
    Would anybody be interested in a ride down to Polkfest from NYC?

    I'll be driving the Vette (mom is letting me use her car) so I can pick up one person...
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited May 2011
    Dude....... 15 hours in a vette? Good luck. Lol. First 4 hours will be an effing blast. I'll give you that
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2011
    ohskigod wrote: »
    Dude....... 15 hours in a vette? Good luck. Lol. First 4 hours will be an effing blast. I'll give you that

    Huh? I've been in long road trips in the C6 and the car is very comfortable.

    At the speed I drive it may take longer, I usually go 5 under the speed limit.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited May 2011
    ohskigod wrote: »
    Dude....... 15 hours in a vette? Good luck. Lol. First 4 hours will be an effing blast. I'll give you that

    15 hours??? Pfft, more like 11, maybe 12...:wink:
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    Wouldnt it be ideal for the person heading furthest north to pick up everyone between their house and flordia that is going and everyone split gas??? ;)

    If you're going to traverse the entire East Coast like that (let's face it, nothing north of NYC counts! :tongue:) you're going to need a frickin' bus to pick up every freeloader along the way. Especially all those mooches in the Carolinas!


    ohskigod wrote: »
    The drive from my house is silly long. No effing way I am driving the whole thing. Call me lazy

    I figured the Autotrain would be nice as I could avoid car rental and long drive. Problem is round trip with a sleeping berth was 800 and change. Sleeping in a **** recliner for 17 hours? Eff thT noise

    Already booked airfair. 320 round trip. Also have to take 2 less days off to account for train travel. Flying in Friday morning. Leaving Monday noonish. Gives a free day to hit a park if I choose Win!!!



    Just gotta rent a car and I'm good to go.

    Yeah but how much is the car rental going to cost you?

    Honestly, the train is not a bad solution at all. And $800 for a round trip, you gets to watch the scenery go by, you're not stuffed in to a high pressure pathogen incubation unit, nobody molests you before you get on (unless doro's around) and you get to take your own car with you instead of some crummy, funky, beat up rental car.

    If I were going, I'd take the train.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    amulford wrote: »
    15 hours??? Pfft, more like 11, maybe 12...:wink:

    The way you drive, maybe.

    But you forget, grandma here:
    Serendipity wrote: »
    Huh? I've been in long road trips in the C6 and the car is very comfortable.

    At the speed I drive it may take longer, I usually go 5 under the speed limit.


    Drives a Corvette like it's a Yugo.

    Now I spent 16 straight hours stopping only for gas and potty breaks in the Lightning and it was one of the best long-haulers I've ever driven, bested only by my Thunderbird. That car was made for the highways!
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2011
    I usually try to hypermile whatever I drive to get the best gas mileage. At 50MPH (5 under the limit) I usually get 33.5MPG with the Vette. More if I don't use the air conditioning and in good weather.

    Popular Mechanics drove a Corvette in 6th gear at 55MPH and it returned 32.8 miles per gallon:

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/4320856
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,611
    edited May 2011
    If I drove that vette we'd be going 120 on the straights
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2011
    Which pretty much guarantees you are not driving it.

    I'd like to get there alive. Seriously.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    I drove a Lightning at 135 MPH in 4th gear and got 2 MPG. Got there a hell of alot faster than everybody else too.
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited May 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    I drove a Lightning at 135 MPH in 4th gear and got 2 MPG. Got there a hell of alot faster than everybody else too.

    I know you are joking, but... at that speed and if your MPG is accurate you would be burning 67 gal per hour. I would think you spent most of your time at the pump.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    I drove a Lightning at 135 MPH in 4th gear and got 2 MPG. Got there a hell of alot faster than everybody else too.

    I call BS. At least not around here (tri-state area).
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  • Jstas
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    edited May 2011
    maximillian wrote: »
    I know you are joking, but... at that speed and if your MPG is accurate you would be burning 67 gal per hour. I would think you spent most of your time at the pump.

    No.

    5.4L engine, 2.0L supercharger, 10 pounds of boost at an effective 7.4L of displacement. One fuel injector moves more fuel per hour than most family sedan fuel pumps.

    25 gallon tank too. Accelerating at wide open throttle, the dual fuel pumps put out about 62 pounds of pressure. Ends up being in the 240 lph range of flow. I do believe that's for one pump. I have to check the numbers when I get home. It's something sick though. Stock fuel system will support 16 pounds of boost and 700 horsepower. That's a ton of flow.
    Serendipity wrote: »
    I call BS. At least not around here (tri-state area).

    I live almost 2 hours away from New York. Plenty of open roads down here plus:

    http://www.njmp.com/index.php

    is a 20 minute drive and I know a couple guys on the B.o.D. for the track.

    I know places in NJ I could get going that fast. It'll hit 120 in just over a mile. But I also know places up in western Michigan and Montana where there is miles of open, straight highway to really stretch the legs.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited May 2011
    Lou are we going to split the hotel room? I plan on flying on on Friday and leave Monday as well.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited May 2011
    Fireman32 wrote: »
    Lou are we going to split the hotel room? I plan on flying on on Friday and leave Monday as well.

    Yeah. I'll get the room and car. We'll figure out something to make us square when were there :-). Betcha glad I'm not **** (not that there is anything wrong with that. Lolz.

    Well figure out what to do Sunday. If you didn't book flight book it now. Silly cheap. I was shocked. That's what easy bumped the Autotrain plans
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited May 2011
    sounds good bud. I will call you to get your flight plans so I can try to get a flight in around the same time.
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