"......Wouldn't that be a dream job, working on old muscle cars?......."
I asked Rick that......he still loves it....but some of the neatness wears off after a while..........sort of becomes a job.
Well I guess it's about time to close this thread out.....we pulled into the driveway about 1PM this afternoon. The car is unloaded and back in the garage and I'm just unwinding. Man what a trip....I would not have traded it for the worlds. Donna also had a great time :eek: The hotel was close enough to everything at Tulsa she didn't have to stick around past when she wanted to. Her and Rick's girlfriend hit it off great so they went shopping...while Rick and I baby sat the garage and cars with a cooler full of beer.......what could go wrong :LOL:
BY the way they seem to have located the winner of the car
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/artic..._A1_iEdit41017
All in all we did 3600 miles in the last 2 weeks. Total problems with the car were 1 lost hub cap and 1 broken sway bar support (Des Moines pothole).
The car was not babied during the trip ....we stuck mostly to the interstate running 70-80 MPH. The drive included of a total of about 5 hours driving in rain from light to "if it gets worse I'm pulling over cause I can't see.:whacked:" We drove thru about 50 miles of fog inTexas and even hit a couple of gravel roads back where I grew up at. The car preformed flawlessly.
I Figured the biggest test would be if it would cool running 80 MPH on a 100degree day (oh say like TODAY in AZ) with the air on. It did great temp never got above 200 and that was pulling some hills.
The car averaged 20 MPG and for a 50 year old car was actually pretty confortable even on the 18 hour strech we pulled yesterday. It does not have all the comforts of a newer car but after this shakedown trip I'm pretty confident I can take it juist about anywhere.