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Last week end was our club get together for our annual SLO run (run to San Lois Obisbo) It's about 250 miles north of where I live. It's an invitation only get together for the Bay Area Roadsters,(San Francisco) and the SLO, and the California Roadsters (Southern California). I went over my roadster front to back checking everything I could think of, changed the oil, ran the valves twice and I was ready. My wife had to go to a convention in Las Vegas so it was my grandson and me.
We packed our bags took out the bottom cushion of my rumble seat and packed everything away. We met 6 other club members at Denny's restaurant at 8:30 last Thursday and we all took off at 9:00 a.m. with a meeting place for lunch where we would meet up with the other 18 cars in our club for lunch, then all caravan together into San Louis Obispo.
I was 4th in line about 10 miles into the trip when my car backfired once out of the exhaust, then died. I coasted to the side of the freeway and stopped. I just had a gut feeling it was the ignition. After checking all the fuses and everything seemed fine I was pretty sure it was my distributer. The problem is you can't even see my distributor in my car. So I new I was done. Two of the guys stopped to help but I told them to go on, it was dead.
My grandson says, "Papa let's take the truck," I love this kid!
I called my wife, told her to take one of the guys from work to our house and have him drive the truck to where we were, and have some other guys bring a trailer up to haul my roadster home.
In less than an hour we back on the road trying to make up lost time. We caught everyone at our lunch stop. They were just finishing up, but they waited for us to eat and we were all off.
We pulled into the motel at 3:30, unpacked and looked forward to dinner. My room was next to Steve Moal. I had to take a picture of my truck parked next to his car, what a contradiction of cars
Here are some other shots of the run. My truck went 730 miles and averaged 18.4 mpg. I was amazed and it never missed a beat.
Ken