OK Gutless Glen
You would have never survived the BABE Rallye. Not only no top, but no wipers
nedder. !400 miles one way. 4 Days down, 2 days back. Tranny, alt swaps in
transit.
WAH WAH WAH, A Truck?? Buy a Toyota
LOL
Larry
Quoting Glen Byrns <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>:
> The joy of departure, the roar of the exhaust and the bugeye and I set out
> with just a small suitcase jammed in the boot with the tools and tonneau. A
> top?...what are you, some kind of girly-man?? Friends and family wave and
> silently thank God they haven't suffered the kind of brain injury that would
> have them in the seat next to me. Two long hot 500 mile days later, with
> two
> days of the same left to go, hearing shot, hands numb, right knee locked up
> tight, killer sunburn, and a disturbing nervous tick from darting looks at
> the oil pressure guage for the last 200 miles, and the romance of the
> journey
> is pretty much shot to do-do. My only joy is the certainty that the return
> trip will be just like the trip out, but without all that pesky skin on my
> neck.
>
> After a nice long sit with the atlas, I'm beginning to wonder how big a
> rental
> truck I would need to drive a bugeye onto it? A/C, radio, working
> wipers........
>
> name witheld to protect the gutless
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