Road trip about to begin...
see you later...

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It's automn, without nay doubt, weather doesn't seem to be with us today :



We're on 2010, october the 23rd. It's about 10 o'clock, ready for action.  



Go ahead to catch my partner for this road trip, like last time, it's "Une ombre noire." (a black shadow).

half an hour later, i'm on Ronald's parking to pick him up :



Another 1/2h later, time for lunch, so that we can forget about this.



I know "Ombre" was a juge Mayonnaise fan, but not at that point...



We're now ready for the afternoon, time for new adventures :



Really cool, weather is gonna be nicer as we drive. We reach the "Vosges" and the weather is really sunny.



So far we're almost blind because of the sun   :



Driving with that weather in such beautiful automn colored montain lanscape is a real pleasure.



During our way we follow some strange vehicules...



We reach the round point of the "wee-wee" pause :





Damned, I've been caught by the patrol




Ad time for our sponsor :



And we're back on track :



We aren't that far now, and overall it will even be faster as a new road is now open.
We couldn't take it 2 weeks ago. We will earn 10 or 15 minutes easliy.
My GPS is now completily lost.



We are now arrived. "Carotte" already prepared some nice goodies for the goal of this road trip.
A spare bezel and user and technical documentations about the pole position cabinet



As usual, we decide to throw away the boring business : loading the cab in the car :



Pole position cab is a bigger cab that the space invaders is. It's a bit tricky to load.



Pfff, The door is closed, it's the most important. Notice the custom small wheels, as an attemps to make the cab self moving :



Now that everything is over before we go, We have some time to spend in the "kitchen garden of the Carott" :
Here the workshop, in an almost panoramic view :







Heyyyyy, wait a minute, You won't pass over the "discs of tron" cab like you did last time ?
No, no, here are some additional pictures (unfortunately we did not move the cab :











Let's go now in the game room :

close to the door,

a nice small Sega Aero City and a classic sega naomi universal cabinet.



Reste of the row featuring a sega rally upright and a hang-on upright cab :



At the end of the row, you find a lost world cab and a super hang-on deluxe :



near you have a  sega touring car twin :



We finish this corner with a Library full of pcbs of all kind (almost only 80ies classics)
Really impressive



What can you find on the other side of the entrance door ?

pac mania and rolling thunder...



blasteroid and roadblaster...



Rampage and creatures of the black lagoon (straight in front of it)


Is it enough for you ? What about the middle of the room :

A babyfoot (don't know the name outside France) with a cult "New Look" magazine from 1982 found in a Space Invaders cabinet :  
this kind of magazine are for male audience only. It includes some X-rated pictiures but not porn. It was famous during the 80ies
as famous people were posing naked for the magazine  



Un massive sega thunder blade :




And a amazing out run deluxe with its galaxian cocktail :




Last time we came, we were frustrated as the speed gear was blocked in hi position, so that we couldn't reach the check points  

This time, as we had some time to spend, "Ombre" replace the broken switch :



Small video  starring "une ombre noire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t83-LB4CLI

Oh, we already have to go, we have some road to drive, do let's go :



Few hours later, we're almost arrived :



Welcome committee :



Pictures of the beast :










Thanks to all the people involved that made this road trip possible
Ombre, aganim, carotte, miss carotte (Lovely cookies) et all his family.

I hope this time there will be enough pictures  

Ready to go :



the roadtrip :


We were agree, with "Une ombre noire", my partner in this roadtrip to meet each other in the town of "Metz", which is located in the middle of the way to our homes.
As we don't have that many kilometers to drive, I gave rendez-vous at the end of the morning, in front a famous US restaurant (if we can named them like that).
Strange days where people prefer to meet in front of such fastfood because everybody know where they are.  

We said 11h00 AM, we're on time.




We begin this roadtrip under a cloudy weather, with sparse light rains all over the way.
We have for about 2h and a half.


As we come back to Nancy to fill the fuel tank, we enjoy a meal the time we are stopping.
shortly after, we're back on track :




It's been a few hour since I 'm driving, listening to electro beats. I need a small technical pause.




Of course, my partner in crime caught me while I was going back from the bushs :




It's nice to wander, but we still have 1/2h to drive. We have to go !
Strange, in that era, GPS is going a bit crazy :





Will we reach our destination ?
Looking for our way...




Swiss direction, good way :




The end was a lot easier, phone to the seller and we are in front of  "superCarotte" home.
We are welcome as kings by "superCarotte" and "Maldoror" come for the occasion to meet us.
Soon arrived, soon dropped in the subject of the day :



I always dreamed to do so !
ghots hands are those from of "Super carotte", jocking behind me.
By the way, curious eyes would have noticed a wonderfull "discs of tron"
in perfect shape : incredible !


So, we are here not only to have fun, we need to finish the boring job first : let's load the old granny :




We need to upper the bottom of the cab to load it straight position on the floor of the car.
Thank god we have loading experts with us  




And here we are, space invaders, ready to go.
Small welcomed bonus, an additional "spacewalk" spare pcb. We will take care when we unload.




After such efforts, we need some rest :
As usual, i'm the only one to drink a beer :




Super carotte cuting chocolate cake for us.




Maldoror, very proud with his nice "toaplan" t-shirt




Unfortunately, we didn't thought to take pictures while we were in the "Super Carotte" gaming room.
This didn't prevent us enjoying playing games on all those present there.
Special mention to the out run deluxe and the super hang on deluxe.
A game room in the making, but already very impressive for its machines and also for its classic pcbs.

As we are enough, "super carotte" asked us to move some big cab parts, such as this daytona deluxe.




later, in the garage :



on the right, the hidden cab for the next roadtrip on the list


It's now time for us to go back hom, we thanked "Super Carotte" for his warm welcome, It's really nice to put Faces on usual board members.
Thanks also to maldoror for his kindness and his help.



Way back home was without any trouble, even if my partner always try to do some indecent proposals



"In french, "charmes" means erotic appeal.

Arrived at destination, unloading was a much more easier than loading..
Small picture of the cab in its provisional # neighborhood :



Works better with the flash at that hour :



Thanks to all the people involved in the making of this road trip.
and also thank you for reading.

roadtrip dedicated to Remy aganim, who is reading us from his hospital bed.
hope to see you soon walking again.

warning, it's in french, no subtitles, sorry.
quite complete and interseting with lots of japan shootings.
even vintage's ones.

http://vimeo.com/2760462