Charley,
More details on the trip, please. Put it a couple of emails and tell the
whole story.
Thanks
Larry
>>>>On 9/13/00 8:52 PM so and so (Charley & Peggy Robinson) said. (And I
quote:)
>Hi All,
>
> Been off the list since the day before we left for our MGB drive to
>northern California. We left on 26 August, got back on Sept. 12th.
>The round trip covered roughly 4,400 miles. Except for a broken
>speedometer cable, replaced at the Taos Garage in Albuquerque, NM, the B
>ran fine for the entire trip. Although they were closed on Mondays, the
>owners of the Taos garage, Don & Carol Tyrack, had some catch-up work to
>do that day and kindly let me use their facility and equipment to
>replace the cable. They also sold me the cable at Moss's catalogue
>price, since they're a Moss reseller. I was put in touch with them
>through a friend of Kevin Sullivan, an MG Lister. Thanks Kevin!!
>Unfortunately the broken cable froze in the housing and broke the driven
>gear in the tranny, which Taos didn't have in stock, so I drove ~3500
>miles using the tach for a speedometer. I sure got adept at converting
>RPM to car speed, both in direct and OD! (G)
>
> We called Walt & Marlene Goddard when we stopped for the night in
>Elko, NV, on our way from Provo UT to Reno. They were kind enough to
>pick us up at the Motel 6 the next morning and treat us to breakfast at
>a local casino/restaraunt; thanks Walt & Marlene!! Then we went on thru
>Reno, Susanville, CA and Mt. Shasta to Yreka, CA. We spent the night in
>Yreka and went west to Happy Camp, in the Klamath River valley, the next
>morning; ~2290 miles on the way up. Took us 6 day to get there, what
>with the delay in Albuquerque and half a day spent in Provo, UT, drying
>our wet clothes & sleeping bags after a 10-hour heavy rain made our tent
>leak in a Nat'l Forest campground between Price and Provo. (G)
>
> We spent a week in Happy Camp. We came home in 4 four days, mainly
>running on I-5 & I-40 thru Albuquerque to Clines Corners, then south
>thru Roswell, NM and San Angelo, TX to Kerrville. The B hummed all the
>way, got between 25 and 28 MPG on the way home, cruising at 75 on the
>freeways and 65 - 70 on the back roads. Not bad with the load we were
>carrying and the large backpack on the luggage rack.
>
> We saw some beautiful country (mountains!) in NM, CO, UT, NV and CA.
>Had the top down most of the way, the only way to see the scenery!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charley & Peggy Robinson
> Dirty '69 B
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Keep your top down and your chin up.
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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