After a long work day, an even longer dinner with my wife, I took the longer, out of the way home last night and headed up to the Bizan Parkway for an uphill climb followed by a downhill run. Bizan Parkway is the roadway through Mount Bizan in Tokushima. It stops at the top with a parking lot, a small park with few points over the city, and a hotel. I believe it has three access/exit roads. The access road I use is lined by hourly rate hotels and one amazing high speed section of hairpins. There is a downside and a upside to this mountain. I'll start with the upside. After 10:00pm, there is no charge, there are very few people, if any, walking or biking on this parkway at that time of night, and you may see a few naked girls in their cars with bleached blond hair and Way too much make up on. The downside...It is a know place for high speed hill climbing and the police will show up. This makes it difficult to use the full RPM range on a car if it has a straight through muffler...... Although I have a loud muffler, I still headed up hill for a slow drive to study the course. After that, I went down hill slightly faster in neutral to get a feel for the course at a higher speed and headed home. As soon as I left the mountain, I saw two patrol cars head up there... I left just in time. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the mountain or the drive. But, I here are a few pics of the car that was used. A 1999? Toyota Altezza RS200 Z. It's fast, but it is still a boat compared to my old 240sx.
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