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<Reply # 1 on 2/27/2009 12:35 AM >
|  | | | No idea where that is, but I LOVE THAT VIDEO!
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Amateur
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Central Coast
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<Reply # 2 on 2/27/2009 3:19 AM >
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It is very, very close to you, aka "The Bull"
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Morbid_Frost
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The Hesh Pit
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 3 on 2/27/2009 3:21 AM >
| | | | i dont know where its at....but that fucker really knows how to drift...sick vid
"The world needs darkness, because the excess of light neither illuminates us nor shelters us but it blinds us and burns us". - Varg Vikernes
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/-/ooligan
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Las Vegas area
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When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
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<Reply # 4 on 2/27/2009 5:21 AM >
| | | | As Amateur hinted, it's the former Marine Corps Air Station (Master Jet) El Toro.
The airfield area has been used a lot over the past 10 years or so for auto race type activity.
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JesseC
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Lake Forest, Ca
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 5 on 2/27/2009 4:28 PM >
| | | | Posted by Amateur
It is very, very close to you, aka "The Bull"
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Ok, I kinda thought that's where it might be. I've never been so I didn't know what it looked like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jchilders/ |
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sYnOnYx
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Las Vegas , NV
Gender: Male
what happens here, doesnt stay here.
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<Reply # 6 on 2/27/2009 8:44 PM >
| | | | Been there , done that.
That place is always being used for auto testing, Just wish I could have been there to see ken !
the show "24" shot some scenes there also not too long ago in the hangars.
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maxx233
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Redding, Northern California (CA)
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 7 on 2/27/2009 10:18 PM >
| | | | holy shit... I thought it was gonna be lame when it started... some idiot dressed up in a suit with his spiffied up car. That was some badass driving though 
No.. no idea where the airfield is though. George AFB maybe? (total guess)
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RomanKam
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Los Angeles
Gender: Male
Allison's Gulch
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<Reply # 8 on 6/13/2009 1:28 AM >
| | | | I've been there but I don't have any pictures! Arrggg! There was a section of building and hangars ripe for UE and I explored them twice until they locked the perimeter when they closed the golf course. I went back the other side but security stopped me as I drifted off course from the college on the west side.
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/-/ooligan
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Las Vegas area
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When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
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<Reply # 9 on 7/8/2009 2:22 AM >
| | | | Photos of El Toro and Tustin, people and facilities, ground and aerial:
http://www.ocregis...2483489/pid2483517
Article:
http://www.ocregis...81972-million-toro
Transforming El Toro into Great Park a slow process
By SEAN EMERY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Thursday, July 2, 2009
IRVINE - The transformation from a stark military base to a lush Great Park
is still a work in progress a decade after the shuttering of El Toro, but the
recent completion of park designs has local leaders promising to soon move
from the drawing table to the bulldozer.
Orange County voters in 2002 ended a contentious decade-long fight for the
future of the El Toro base, scrapping plans for a commercial airport in favor
of the ambitious Great Park.
Lennar Corp. purchased the bulk of the El Toro land in 2005, giving Irvine
the 1,347-acre Great Park property, along with $200 million in developer
fees, in return for the rights to build residential, commercial and retail
space around the property.
As the ensuing housing downturn delayed Lennar's plans, Great Park leaders
focused their attention on the project's design, hiring Ken Smith to prepare
a comprehensive vision for the park.
By 2008, Great Park leaders came under fire from critics questioning the pace
of park development.
Park leaders responded by opening a 27.5-acre preview park and kicking off a
series of concerts, dances and special events that drew more than 40,000 in
its first year.
Park leaders with much fanfare earlier this year signed off on Smith's
comprehensive park design, which includes active sports fields, cultural
meeting places, agricultural fields, natural landmarks and protected
ecological environments.
Park leaders a month later laid the groundwork for actual construction by
setting aside $61 million for the first wave of park construction, which is
expected to include a 500-acre swath of sports fields, community gardens,
farm land and a man-made lake.
In three and a half years, more than $100 million has been spent on the park.
A $97 million 2009-10 fiscal year budget is expected to leave about $33
million in unallocated funds in Great Park coffers.
But the Great Park's long-term future is still unclear. Promised sports
fields have not yet materialized, the cost of the project has risen from $1.2
billion to $1.4 billion, and city officials have yet to finalize with Lennar
an updated development agreement key to future park financing
Meanwhile, Navy officials continue to move forward with their
multimillion-dollar, decades-long effort to remove toxic leftovers from the
base. The cleanup, which focuses on both Lennar and city-owned portions of El
Toro, includes the removal of TCE, the capping of former landfills, and the
patching of leaks from aging sewer lines.
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edsel
location:
Under your skin
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<Reply # 10 on 8/18/2009 11:21 PM >
| | | | Ya looks like El Toro.
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robk700
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Los Angeles / D.C.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 11 on 8/19/2009 12:44 AM >
| | | | I think were all agreed on the location. But dear baby jesus what a rad (am I the only person who still uses that term) video. I would have loved to have been there for something like that.
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