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RE: All American road trip - Ruairidh Dunford - 22-09-2019
Tony,
That’s a pity - let me know if your plans change...
RE: All American road trip - Tony Betts - 23-09-2019
Hi R,
Sadly I won't get that far west, could have pulled it in last year.
A good day today.
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Hopefully this says, get an austin 7
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Any free advertising, is good advertising.
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After a six hour drive.
We are now as far west as we are going.
Colorado Springs. Tomorrow we will take the hillclimbs up pikes peek.
Tony.
RE: All American road trip - Ivor Hawkins - 23-09-2019
Can you believe that the idiots just throw the empty aerosols on the floor? Grrr!
Great pics though Tony, I’ll take the El Camino, you could put a Seven in the back!
RE: All American road trip - David.H - 23-09-2019
Here is a pic of my second seven in 1957(?) at Sandhurst next to a Kuwaiti's Impala....the back of the cars were level!
I think it is now an Ulster (no, not the Impala!) Taken on a box brownie or something & I cannot blow up the image before adding it! I hope viewers may be able to expand it! The Camino & Impala had similar rear fins...perhaps Reckless should find a Camino for his return trip.....
RE: All American road trip - Duncan Grimmond - 23-09-2019
Could it be that throwing the cans on the ground is part of the statement?
Personally I would have buried them to half depth ath the same angle as the cars but I've a strange view on modern art...
RE: All American road trip - Tony Betts - 24-09-2019
Hi Duncan,
Don't worry, it's not as bad as the picture looks.
I took two cans with me, well it's a long way just to look.
We got to Cadillac ranch around 10.00am, so plenty had been before us.
It looks like the cans are collected up in the evening. As there were around 30 cans that had been put together to one side of the first caddy.
This way cans were not being thrown away part full.
I like the idea of that.
Notice it's wet around the cars, we had the tail end of the hurricane the evening before.
So the cans around the first car, had been used that day. And will be cleared in the evening. The other can around are what people have picked up, then decided they don't want to get wet.
I'd give this place a 10 out of 10.
It's free, fun, interactive, just pull in of the highway.
Tony.
Well, we done pikes peek yesterday.
Wow Wow and more Wow.
If you are interested in a drive up the side of a 14,113 ft mountain. It's a must.
As there were road works at the top, and suggestions you could drive the last 300ft. We got there early, just in case.
Paid to get in, and at 12,000 there was nobody on the gate so we drove to the very top.wow what a view.
Sorry the pics won't show the true 100 mile plus vista.
I had heard the mountain was so high, you could loose your breath at the top. (Yeh right, they wouldn't let the public up there). But O now, it's true. Walk round, and your chest tightens.
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More austin reference,
Well I do need a new TEA mug for the shed.
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We pulled into DODGE CITY today.
And there has been a lot of this. In between.
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Not seen them stacked like this since Norfolk in the 80s.
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RE: All American road trip - Tony Betts - 26-09-2019
Now traveling back to Dallas, 1,800 miles this week.
Spent a lot of the day on Route 66.
An old garage for R,
Probably the most pictured in the world.
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RE: All American road trip - Tony Betts - 27-09-2019
We done the hot rod show at the lone star circle today.
A very big round race track.
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A lot of nicely restored cars.
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The recest of all, this mini.
Well it is over here.
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We keep bumping into this monkey.
Doing his next show.
Tony.
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For the next four days, we will be driving the long haul to Nebraska, ???
RE: All American road trip - Tony Betts - 30-09-2019
Not a lot of car stuff to show.
We have four days to get to the next stoopid car thing to do.
We drove Dallas to fort smith.
Then to Wichita yesterday.
And today will be more driving to McCook, were we should hit Nebraska.
3,500 miles so far.
Tony.
RE: All American road trip - Charles P - 30-09-2019
(30-09-2019, 03:03 PM)Tony Betts Wrote: Not a lot of car stuff to show.
We have four days to get to the next stoopid car thing to do.
We drove Dallas to fort smith.
Then to Wichita yesterday.
And today will be more driving to McCook, were we should hit Nebraska.
3,500 miles so far.
Tony.
Blimey
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and then mid Nebraska.
I hope that you rented a car with an unlimited mileage deal!
c