Posted on 10/31/2013 6:25:00 PM PDT by oxcart
Three men, a souped-up Mercedes, 2,813 miles of American roadway, a bedpan, and a dream.
Ed Bolian, and his team, obliterated a cross-country driving record this month, racing from New York to LA in a heart-pounding 28 hours 50 minutes.
Thats 11 hours faster than Google maps says it should take, and nearly 3 hours faster than the previous record set in 2006 of 31 hours and 4 minutes.
Honestly, I was so shocked at how much we had beat our target and previous record, Bolian, a 27-year-old Lamborghini dealer from Atlanta told ABCNews.com.
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I once drove from Connecticut to Portland, Oregon, in six days. It was January and I had to barrel through two blizzards... Medicine Bow Pass was an incredible experience for a first-time out West trip during near whiteout conditions.
I’m jealous of those guys, though. I often wish that we had autobahn speed limits in this country.
Are you sure it wasn’t “Whats a behind me is a no matter”?
I here they used a different route than the other records were set on.
This is effectively cheatery.
You had a fixed starting point, and a fixed end point. In between was up to you.
How about a contest to see who can make the slowest entry onto an Interstate?
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