First Road Trip

[majicwrench]

Had my Spider for years, but it never seems to get more than 20 miles from home. But Friday took it to a nearby town to help a friend. Impressions........needs luggage rack. With dogs, Soulmate, picnic stuff, a fishing rod, plus some treasures we bought along the way (she likes to shop), gets crowded fast. Trunk big but shallow. Noise....was worried might get too much tween the wind and the engine. Twas not, until the pipe broke 50 miles from home while we were on a dirt road. Then ear plugs required on the Hwy. Heat, have always been worried about overheating, seems everybody has an issue. Was wonderful, stayed about the "1" in 190 when cruising and would get the "0" in traffic. Speed, cruised 60-65 whole way, smooth, never missed a beat, didn't figure mileage but I can tell you it did great. Overall an amazing trip, gonna do it again. I ponder selling Spider every now and then, but then I go for a drive....

My buddy Terry, an amazing musician


Stopped along the way a few times..

[rlux4]

Cool report.
Cool car.
Cool Hat.
Cool dog.
Nice company.
Kinda dinky fish though.
Ron

[sptcoupe]

Your trip report brought a smile to my face. You had all the right ingredients - wife, dog, fishing poles, what looks like a great stream, and you were kind enough to give a young fish some great experience so that he can better avoid the hook and grow to be real lunker!

And, of course, the car you can't bring yourself to sell, which made me recall dealing with a reluctant owner/seller many years ago...

Mark Allison recently bought the 124 BC coupe that belonged to Dorothy Klendenan, who was (is?) an editor at R&T Magazine (I may have that wrong - but it was a major car mag). The car was actually featured in a late 70's article (I may be wrong there, too ) that had to do with all the things you can do to preserve a car's useful life, and the magazine paid for a paint job on the coupe, which she had owned since new.

In the article she wrote about how the coupe had been neglected, sitting in the garage with flat tires/dead battery, etc, and how many times they had thought about selling it. But every time they decided to sell it, they would charge the battery, pump up the tires, drive it, and fall in love with it all over again. For years after that article appeared, way before the internet, I called and wrote Dorothy on a regular basis trying to get her to sell the car to me. Finally, sometime around 1989, she agreed to sell it to me. We were living in the SF Bay area, I had bought my airline ticket to go to LA to get it, and on the night before I left, she called and told me they had changed their minds after getting it ifired up and ready for me to drive up to SF and taken it for "one last spin". That's what these cars do.

I never did get that car, which I wanted because it was rust free, complete, and dead original. Maybe Mark can fill in the details.

Keep it at the redline... and thanks for the story!

[majicwrench]

You shoulda seen the one that got away..........
All the cricks round here have fish, but not many very good fish. Tis great fun however, to stop and make a few casts. As you can tell, the dogs and I both enjoy it.
Keith

[dmwhiteoak]

Kieth, It's nice to see a smile on your face. You always seem grouchy . A few more fish that size and we would have enough to bait a trot line.