My wife and I recently drove from LA to Denver and back. Here's a couple pics of the car in some scenic areas. The car behaved flawlessly in Desert heat and over 12,000' in the Rockies.

Capitol Reef NP in Utah



Balanced Rock in Arches NP in Utah




Bryce Canyon National Park



Rocky Mountain NP in Colorado



Utah Sunset in Motel Parking Lot

 

very niSe!

 

congrats on finding ur new car. i always wanted to drive through Arches with the S. can u give anymore details on pros/cons/experiences?


thnx

 

So where did you get your luggage rack? How much did you pay?

 

My dad and I went to Utah about four years ago. Really awesome parks - wouldn't want to live there (:

Ballanced Rock was cool, but did you hike out to Dark Angel? That's some serious stone.

 

The trip was 2970 miles in 10 days. We left LA then drove through Vegas and then followed small hiways or backroads whenever feasible. We hit these National Parks in this order... Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, Rocky Mountain, Black Canyon of Gunnison, Mesa Verde, Monument Valley (Navajo tribal park). My favorite stretch of road for driving and scenery reasons was the hiway from Montrose Colorado through the San Juans to Ouray, Silverton and Durango.
There is no better way to make a mountain/National Park tour than with a convertible. The scenic view with top down is GREAT.

Steve



About the luggage rack....

Made by Surco. It is fully removeable with no drilling needed. Takes about 10 minutes to install or remove. Cost $147. There is a bit of a problem though. It is made for the Miata despite being called "Luggage Rack for S2000". The seams between the trunk lid and fenders are much narrorer and more precision on an S2k than on Miata. If you go to the Surco website link you see three small photos of rack. Click on photo and you see detail of the attachment to trunk lid.

The brackets that grab under the lid are a bit too thick to fit the narrower seam on an S2K. Ask Surco for the brackets that are undersize in thickness by 1/1000. The inside curve of the bracket is already rubberized to protect the paint. You need to ruberize the outside curve to avoid damaging the paint on fenders when the car is vibrating at speed and hitting road roughness. I used a piece of double-sided foam tape wrapped around outside curve of the bracket. Then I used baby powder to coat the exposed adhesive of the second sticky side of tape. When closing trunk I pushed to latch rather than slaming it shut. It worked fine.

http://www.racksforall.com/index.asp?PageA...earch=GO&Page=1

 

2970 miles in 10 days? Shiza ...

My girlfriend (now wife) and I did 6500 miles in 22 days. The car actually sat turned off for 6 or 7 of those days, in parking garages. We left Little Rock, Arkansas and headed to the Grand Canyon. Then up through LV to Monteray, then to San Fran, then up to Portland and then to Victoria BC. Then to Seattle. Back down to Vancouver (by Portland) and across Idaho into Montana. Then down to Custard's mistake, into Wyoming to see Devil's Tower, over to South Dekota for Mount Rushmore, Grasslands / Badlands, then into Iowa and down to Nebraska to spend the night in Lincoln, and then back home to Arkansas.

I'd do it all again tomorrow.

 

rack actually looks pretty good on s2k!