Vegas for non-gamblers?

The Evel Knievel Museum is moving to Las Vegas later this year. Relocating from Topeka. It is a pretty amazing collection/history, and the new space will be even bigger.

z31maniac said:

I know this is another old bump, but Exotics Racing south of town. 

I want to buy a lottery ticket just so I can buy a GT4 RS after driving it on track. 

You know you don't have to go to Vegas to drive a GT4 RS, right?  Xtreme Xperience will bring them to a track near you!  This weekend is Atlanta Motorsports Park, one of the best tracks in the country.

SKJSS (formerly Klayfish) said:

z31maniac said:

I know this is another old bump, but Exotics Racing south of town. 

I want to buy a lottery ticket just so I can buy a GT4 RS after driving it on track. 

You know you don't have to go to Vegas to drive a GT4 RS, right?  Xtreme Xperience will bring them to a track near you!  This weekend is Atlanta Motorsports Park, one of the best tracks in the country.

I have a buddy that used to instruct for them, he told me even at a small track like Hallett (our local track here in Oklahoma), they use cones on the front straight to make a chicane to keep the speed way down. 

This is not something they do at Exotics Racing. In the 488 Pista, I was touching ~130-135 on the front straight. Of course the Porsche didn't have quite that much pull. 

Just a guess about what may have bumped this thread....

In reply to MadScientistMatt :

Isn't that a Ford Econobox?

z31maniac said:

SKJSS (formerly Klayfish) said:

z31maniac said:

I know this is another old bump, but Exotics Racing south of town. 

I want to buy a lottery ticket just so I can buy a GT4 RS after driving it on track. 

You know you don't have to go to Vegas to drive a GT4 RS, right?  Xtreme Xperience will bring them to a track near you!  This weekend is Atlanta Motorsports Park, one of the best tracks in the country.

I have a buddy that used to instruct for them, he told me even at a small track like Hallett (our local track here in Oklahoma), they use cones on the front straight to make a chicane to keep the speed way down. 

This is not something they do at Exotics Racing. In the 488 Pista, I was touching ~130-135 on the front straight. Of course the Porsche didn't have quite that much pull. 

Are you sure it was Xtreme?  I instruct for them and the only track we use a chicane is Portland.  Even then it's not in the middle of the straight.  There are plenty of tracks where we see 130-150+mph.  

Speaking of Xtreme, beautiful morning here at AMP.  If you're in Atlanta, stop by!!

Things To Do:

• Hoover Dam Tour
• Spring Mountain raceway
• Mob Museum
• Ferrari dealership in the Wynn hotel
• Shelby-American
• Gold/Silver Pawn--it's small but cool.
• Kounts Customs.
• Las Vegas Motor Speedway
• Nellis AFB
• RTCSNV- Tour
• Eldorado Canyon Mine tours
• Atomic Testing Museum 
• Pinball Hall of Fame and Museum
• Mandalay/Luxor/Excalibur tram
• Clark County Museum

 

Food/Drinks:

• Evel Pie:
• Henry (Cosmopolitan) - Good breakfast.
• STK (Cosmopolitan) - Awesome steak, get the truffle butter, great lobster mac & cheese. Holds the record for most expensive meal I've ever eaten.
• Burger Bar (Mandalay Bay) - Nothing spectacular, great beer selection.
• Noodles (Caesars Palace) - Good authentic Asian grub, there were a lot of actual Asian folks eating there, cheapest meal I had in Vegas.
• Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab (Forum Shops) - Surf & Turf! King Crab was great, steak was great, Oysters Rockefeller were great, service was outstanding, best waiter I've ever had.
• Diablo's (On the Strip near NY-NY) - Came highly recommended, it was typical Tex Mex, nothing phenomenal.
• Holstein's (Cosmopolitan) - Best burger I had in Vegas pretty high on the list of all burgers I've had, it's called the "Gold Standard."
• Vesper Bar (Cosmopolitan) - conveniently located by the elevator to our room, a little snobby, but I discovered my new favorite mixed drink, Moscow Mule.
  Bond (Cosmopolitan) - GoGo dancers, girls swinging from the ceiling, looked fun. There were several empty tables, we sat at one, waitress came and told us it was a 1 bottle & $275 minimum, our jaws on the floor we got up and left quickly.
• The Chandelier (Cosmopolitan) - A 3 story bar that IS a chandelier, drinks were nothing special, service sucked, but the bar was neat.
• Mon Ami Gabi (Paris) - Great food, steak, muscles, pâté, cheeses, sit on the patio and watch the fountains at the Bellagio.
• Hexx Kitchen (Paris) - Decent food, their take on chicken & waffles is a little weird, I wouldn't recommend it. Their complementary chocolate was the bitterest thing I've ever tasted, maybe they didn't like me?
• The Grand Wok (MGM) - Only had the Sushi, it was good, but for what I paid, I'd expect better.
• Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak (MGM) - Recommended by our concierge at Tropicana, it was good, steak was good, but STK and Joe's are better.
• MGM Grand Buffet (MGM Duh?) - Go early or late to miss the crowd, kind of pricey, but everything is, endless mimosas provided with your meal, everything was above average for a buffet, but they don't know how to make gravy, and the chef(s) seemed to want to put chorizo in everything.
• Tender Steak & Seafood (Luxor) - Scallops were great, had a cheese platter, you got to pick 3 cheeses from a big list, and it came with quince paste, we didn't know what a quince was, but we liked it.

Okay I am going to Vegas flying solo this June for a conference. I have Tuesday afternoon and evening,  Wednesdays morning is available,  Thursday I will be done about 3:30pm Friday I will be done at 1pm, and Saturday morning I flyout.  In the quotes I tried to summarize  all of what is said. The convention is at the Caesars Forum and I am staying at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Convention Center Las Vegas. I am interested in the Mob Museum and Hoover dam would be at the top of my list, but I do like food. What can I reasonably do with no transportation or cheap transportation (my employer won't pay) to make it a fun trip?

Anywhere on the strip is walkable, but in the summer I'd want to wait til after dark to go very far.  IIRC, the mob museum is not too far from Fremont, so that should just be a bus ride away.

Not sure about Hoover Dam transportation , that would probably require an expensive taxi or Uber ride.