pro street rich
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Well reading some of these posts about road trips maybe it is time to add your best story you have. Keep in mind, this has to do something with car,trucks or something like that to keep it in line on this page...
Here is my best road story...
Many years ago when I first retired from my daily job we went on vacation. My kids were nine & eleven at the time. We all packed into a f250 super cab with a 8' slide in camper. On the back of that we added a 1970 bronco fully built for off roading with a trailer and headed out for the summer. One month in the mountians playing then off to the grand cayon. This is where it gets good. We are in Grand Junction Co. and ask for the shortest way to get to the grand cayon.The guy writes it down and we head out to see the country. Now let me fill in some more info on this truck we are driving. The engine is a 460, with a total of three fuel tanks two are stock and a thrid one is mounted in the right sideunder the bed.. total 62 gallons of go go juice. The bronco also has 30 gallons in it, keep that in mind..
So here we are driving and the road goes from a great paved road to something that looks more like one of the trail's we spent the first month on. Well when we were on the thrid tank on the truck it was not looking too good. Here we were out in the middle of nowhere and not a light to be seen. We have to make a choice, do we keep going or turn around and go kill that guy who sent us this way... we pushed on. When the thrid tank is getting low I stop and pull some gas from the bronco. This gets us down the way some more and then we hit a small town....Boy was that a great site for me. We did make it to the cayon but there were some times when I was not too sure if I would ever see people again... Add to the fact that there are two small kids and a wife that is starting to wonder where this is all going to end.. Next time I will go into the crossing the high desert with the outside temps over 120, and not a cloud in site.....Rich
Here is my best road story...
Many years ago when I first retired from my daily job we went on vacation. My kids were nine & eleven at the time. We all packed into a f250 super cab with a 8' slide in camper. On the back of that we added a 1970 bronco fully built for off roading with a trailer and headed out for the summer. One month in the mountians playing then off to the grand cayon. This is where it gets good. We are in Grand Junction Co. and ask for the shortest way to get to the grand cayon.The guy writes it down and we head out to see the country. Now let me fill in some more info on this truck we are driving. The engine is a 460, with a total of three fuel tanks two are stock and a thrid one is mounted in the right sideunder the bed.. total 62 gallons of go go juice. The bronco also has 30 gallons in it, keep that in mind..
So here we are driving and the road goes from a great paved road to something that looks more like one of the trail's we spent the first month on. Well when we were on the thrid tank on the truck it was not looking too good. Here we were out in the middle of nowhere and not a light to be seen. We have to make a choice, do we keep going or turn around and go kill that guy who sent us this way... we pushed on. When the thrid tank is getting low I stop and pull some gas from the bronco. This gets us down the way some more and then we hit a small town....Boy was that a great site for me. We did make it to the cayon but there were some times when I was not too sure if I would ever see people again... Add to the fact that there are two small kids and a wife that is starting to wonder where this is all going to end.. Next time I will go into the crossing the high desert with the outside temps over 120, and not a cloud in site.....Rich