Great looking Si and welcome to the forum!
My family have been near Mt Mitchel since horse and wagon days. Awesome roads, not too busy back when I was learning to drive. Had an older Plymouth and dreamed of Lotus. Decades passed and the Lotus came along.Western NC is a great place for twisty mountain roads. I live in Chicagoland and have driven to NC numerous times for hiking vacations to the mountains and waterfalls.