Gumball 3000
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From: NorCal, SF East Bay
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I intended on falling in line with the cars as they made their way to LA via Highway 5 since I was headed to San Diego yesterday.
BUT a few blocks from my house there was a hit & run accident. This Grand Marquis destroyed a Dodge Neon right in front of me, I had to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid both cars. The Grand Marquis decided to takeoff so I to bust a "Bullitt" and give chase while tryn to get 911 on the phone.
Ended up being 45min behind schedule and only made contact with one Gumballer....a purple Murcielago
BUT a few blocks from my house there was a hit & run accident. This Grand Marquis destroyed a Dodge Neon right in front of me, I had to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid both cars. The Grand Marquis decided to takeoff so I to bust a "Bullitt" and give chase while tryn to get 911 on the phone.
Ended up being 45min behind schedule and only made contact with one Gumballer....a purple Murcielago
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I completely forgot about this and was working in SF this morning. We were off loading trucks on 2nd street and earlier in the morning some awesome sounding/looking MR2's went by, and then later in the afternoon I heard a couple bad *** cars fly by. Thats when I looked out of the truck and gotta chance to see a whole stream of Gumball cars driving by!!! Talk about being star struck!! Some sick cars were there, including a white M6 with white lip deep dish wheels that sounded amazingly mean. Not to mention the legion of Ferrari's that were screaming by. God I wish I had my camera 
Oh yeah, has anyone seen the cost of being in the Gumball 3000??? If you havent, its 60,000lbs Euro for each car for you and one other if this is your first event. 50,000lbs Euro if youve attended before, and 20,000lbs Euro for each addtional person in your car!!!! I didnt think it was that high, but GOOD LORD!!!!
In US Dollar that would be around....
60,000lbs Euro=90,285.30 USD
50,000lbs Euro=75,237.75 USD
20,000lbs Euro=30,095.10 USD
Oh yeah, has anyone seen the cost of being in the Gumball 3000??? If you havent, its 60,000lbs Euro for each car for you and one other if this is your first event. 50,000lbs Euro if youve attended before, and 20,000lbs Euro for each addtional person in your car!!!! I didnt think it was that high, but GOOD LORD!!!!
In US Dollar that would be around....
60,000lbs Euro=90,285.30 USD
50,000lbs Euro=75,237.75 USD
20,000lbs Euro=30,095.10 USD
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they were on their way to buttonwillow yesterday going down hwy 101 while i was on my way back up. apparently saturday night they were supposed to arrive at 5pm and be on track till the sun went down. I was at the speedventures event, but left before they arrived
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