Morning one and all,
Well my Mark Twain trip to Saint Louis is over and what a ride, but well worth it.
Pulled out of my drive way at 10:24 Thursday and got back at 10:26 on Saturday, that’s not the weird part, and this is no lie, 1776.1 miles round trip how’s that for a 4th of July week end road trip!
Drove 11 hours on Thursday, stopped at the Ark / MO. Boarder about 10 and pulled back out at about 4 the next morning, man that country side around South East Missouri is nice, 56 degrees, low fog banks in the beautiful valley’s another 4 hours to S.L., took the bypass over the Mississippi into ILL and back over to the show room, got there about 8:30 with time to kill before they opened up at 10 and had to have a few beers even that early in the morning to calm the nerves along with a pack of cigars, open open open!, old Wal-Mart turned into a Candy store of fine rides, not a lemon in the bunch,
Start taking pictures (hopefully attached ) first then looked for my new ride, In the back sit the new T-bird and the pictures did not do it justice! , put a couple of initials on the last doc and loaded her up and pulled out at 11, drove for another 10 hours for a total of about 15 hours on the road and had to stop again in Atlanta, TX, then up the next morning and finished the final 5 hours to the house!
6 tanks of fuel, a cracked windshield on the new truck and 10 million bugs in the grill later I was home, felt like Huck Finn.
I never got to check out the car like I wanted to until I got home and the more I looked the more I’m convinced that this car has been locked up in someone’s garage for a long time. Cob webs under the car, found a metal plaque from a cruise night car show dated 1992 sitting between the passenger seat and console and not a towel scratch in the paint.
AC would not cool and had that charged and everything in great now except for the driver’s window won’t roll down, due to the plastic gears they used back then that needs to be replaced. Hope to get the inspection and registration done soon so I can really get it on the road.
Great test run for slick stock, now back to Dallas this week end for a birthday party, then back to Denton the first of August for graduation then Iowa for the national truck show I'm taking my 66 to.
Oh yea, almost got nailed by a hoard of Hornets right off the get go when I went to get the trailer, damn bees had made a nest in the trailer tongue
Well my Mark Twain trip to Saint Louis is over and what a ride, but well worth it.
Pulled out of my drive way at 10:24 Thursday and got back at 10:26 on Saturday, that’s not the weird part, and this is no lie, 1776.1 miles round trip how’s that for a 4th of July week end road trip!
Drove 11 hours on Thursday, stopped at the Ark / MO. Boarder about 10 and pulled back out at about 4 the next morning, man that country side around South East Missouri is nice, 56 degrees, low fog banks in the beautiful valley’s another 4 hours to S.L., took the bypass over the Mississippi into ILL and back over to the show room, got there about 8:30 with time to kill before they opened up at 10 and had to have a few beers even that early in the morning to calm the nerves along with a pack of cigars, open open open!, old Wal-Mart turned into a Candy store of fine rides, not a lemon in the bunch,
Start taking pictures (hopefully attached ) first then looked for my new ride, In the back sit the new T-bird and the pictures did not do it justice! , put a couple of initials on the last doc and loaded her up and pulled out at 11, drove for another 10 hours for a total of about 15 hours on the road and had to stop again in Atlanta, TX, then up the next morning and finished the final 5 hours to the house!
6 tanks of fuel, a cracked windshield on the new truck and 10 million bugs in the grill later I was home, felt like Huck Finn.
I never got to check out the car like I wanted to until I got home and the more I looked the more I’m convinced that this car has been locked up in someone’s garage for a long time. Cob webs under the car, found a metal plaque from a cruise night car show dated 1992 sitting between the passenger seat and console and not a towel scratch in the paint.
AC would not cool and had that charged and everything in great now except for the driver’s window won’t roll down, due to the plastic gears they used back then that needs to be replaced. Hope to get the inspection and registration done soon so I can really get it on the road.
Great test run for slick stock, now back to Dallas this week end for a birthday party, then back to Denton the first of August for graduation then Iowa for the national truck show I'm taking my 66 to.
Oh yea, almost got nailed by a hoard of Hornets right off the get go when I went to get the trailer, damn bees had made a nest in the trailer tongue
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