After a full year in the making Wake the Devil 2012 is sadly now over. The trip was unbelievable. This was the second year in a row that I planned and organized the event and it exceeded my expectations in every way. 20 S2000's, 1 911 Turbo, 1 E46 M3, and 1 335i. We had a total of 36 people attend this years event which was mainly held in AZ and we spent a few hrs driving through NM. People came from Florida, South Carolina, Montana, Utah, and primarily AZ. I took off work for about 5 days just to relax and enjoy myself. I had out of town guests stay at my house so for me the trip really began Wed. 34Witt whom I met in Germany drove down from Montana to stay with me. He brought his friend from South Caroline along. We attended a local AZ Wed night meet with 20 other S2000's. Then Thursday we took his CR to UMS tuning for some dyno time. Thursday night Pastoli and his wife drove down from Utah and also stayed with me. So I had a house full of people I barely know but now I have some close friends for life. It was def awesome have 3 S2000's at my house hanging out days prior to the actual trip!

Quick details: 8055 Ft. of Elevation Change, 1000+ Turns, 750 Miles, 3 Days, 2 States. For those not familiar the run takes place on the current HWY 191 (Coronado Trail). This section of road was originally HWY 666 but was renamed in 1992.

"Over the years, U.S. 666 has sometimes been the object of controversy because "666" is the "number of the beast" (or Antichrist) in the Bible. Revelation 13:18 states:

Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

The association with the "beast" earned U.S. 666 the nickname "Devil's Highway." USA Today quoted a State trooper who recalled one drunken-driving suspect on U.S. 666 who told him, "Triple 6 is evil. Everyone dies on that highway" (August 4, 1990). The Wall Street Journal titled an article "Beast of a Highway: Does Asphalt Stretch Have Biblical Curse?" (August 3, 1995). Referring to the highway's dangers, the article quoted a resident who "blames Satan. After all, 'the highway has the devil's name.'" It was also the subject of a cartoon in The New Yorker's issue of February 23/March 2, 1998 (a Corvette-type open top sports car is passing the U.S. 666 sign; the driver and his passenger are depicted as satanic figures)."

Thank you everyone for everything these past two years.

Big thank you to this years Sponsors. It def helped make the trip feel bigger and more official! Thank you to SOS for the free lunch and allowing us to use your gorgeous new shop for our meet and great. Also thank you for fitting in a last minute oil change. Thank you to Detailer’s Domain for the month long 20% discount on your site and for sending me 12 cans of Stoner Invisible Glass. Thank you to Stoner Car Care for sending me 12 cans of you Invisible Glass. Thank you to BC (Back Cracker) for sending me some leftover HCII swag that I was able to hand out to members Sunday morning. Also thank you to the Amberian Peaks Lodge for providing a fantastic lodge and allowing us to pretty much take over and own the place for a weekend. I think there were memories made that will last a life time!

On to the pics and a few videos. I still have a lot of video to edit. What I have so far is the still images stitched together which document the drive from Phx to Greer on Friday, and Saturday mornings drive. I have actual full video footage of the rest of Saturday when the roads got really twisty. I hope to finish that up this weekend.

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Here are three videos that are still images stitched together. Kinda cool. Figured it would be a good mix instead of having all video. As for music selection I just used whatever songs fit the video length. Tried to do these quickly so no high dollar editing

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6L0...1&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbkZ...2&feature=plcp

I still need to now go and edit all the actual video footage...

 

Reserved.

 

How I wish I was a part of this run !!

 

Great drive, great pics, to SOS for being so supportive of the community.

Seeing these meets makes me miss Arizona.

 

One of these days I'm going to stop being an idiot and go on these trips.

 

Awesome!

 

uehara...are you from okinawa? random, i know.