Posted on 07/26/2013 4:30:32 PM PDT by Daffynition
The sun is out! The birds are singing! The open road calls! Your vinyl interior is burning itself into your thighs! Yes, summer is here and it's time to go on some road trips. What car do you take, though?
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Ah yes ... the older models. The 74 didn’t have that feature.
Electra-Glide Ultra
Funny how, when we young...something like that roof was so radical and cool to us!
Now, we live in an age of massive moon roofs.
Those days are pretty much gone. Just me and the dog now. I’d have to rent a kid or something. I tried to talk my son into a Great Southwest airplane trip but he showed no interest. Told him I’d buy the gas and had the route planned and all. That is the way to see a country that big with things so widely dispersed. A light plane.
You are right though. I need to go. Maybe this fall when everybody goes back to school and before it gets too cold. Maybe make the last cut of hay then head out northwest adn follow the fall south. My buddies I’d be willing to travel with are all gone now though. It is a long road alone.
For head turning factor: 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car.
I worry that my *new* woodie won’t take me off-road like the SUV did.....but there are trade-offs.
How do you get at you *stuff* in a capped truck...don’t you have to unload practically everything?
Our old country preacher’s Son headed the engineering dept. of Chrysler that developed the turbine car.
Dr. Phillip Lett later did the same with the Abrams tank which has a turbine engine.
I hope you get to do it!
Sharing the driving and laughs, makes it fun!
Like I said, two of my friends and I are planning a huge trip next Spring. We're planning on leaving Kentucky at O'Dark Early and driving to somewhere around Strasburg, Colorado that evening. The next morning, we've going through the Rocky Mountain National Park and then up into Wyoming. We're then going to spend a couple of days in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone before heading over to Little Bighorn and Devil's Tower. From there, we are heading down into the Black Hills to visit Mount Rushmore before driving through the Badlands.
My Dad and I took a similar trip a few years ago, and one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen was the Badlands at sunset.
WOW! You can’t fit a toothbrush on that rig!
Returned from a 3,000 mile round trip across 8 states in a trusty 2001 Monte Carlo SS. Not a hitch, stall, flat, alert and averaged 31mpg. I do love the old Chevys.
A Chevy was my first choice...it wasn’t meant to be. :)
Once upon a time, 8 adults and a baby loaded in a split-window camper that had a 3 person bench in the front, from Birmingham through London in the middle of the night to Dover-Calais, one overnight along the Rhine, through the alps, and into Italy, Citta di Castello.
How many are old enough to remember Dinah Shore singing:
See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
America’s the greatest land of all
A very common TV commercial and unabashedly pro America.
Dad had one of these. Buick also made one and that is what he had. Neatest dang car ever. It had split seats in 1964 as I recall. The one he had was kinda yellow. Really a classy wagon. The roof rack whistled and wouldn’t support a canoe.
We always had station wagons starting with a ‘56 Pontiac that was red and white. I think it was a’56. Dads reason for being after the War and his wind down years was to be a DAD. He bummed around, finished school, put bad memories in their place and set his goals in the post war years. The wagons were a signature to his ambition. The best one we had was a ‘76 Chevrolet Caprice wagon with a big block 400. It was blue with a blue letherette interior and tires that were HUGE. I drove it all the way across the United States on our last family vacation together.
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