It counts only if you were sitting in the car while being towed, with the
top down and the radio playing! Doesn't count if your butt was in a comfy
motor home!!!!!!!
66 Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry and Donna Cost <tcost@vvm.com>
To: Datsun Roadsters <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 12:59 PM
Subject: long trips
> Does it count if you tow the Roadster? My adventure this summer took 26
> days and 5800 miles. Donna and I did a top-down roadster side trip of 400
> miles when we went to Mt Ranier and Mt St Helens in the same day, and we
did
> a 200 mile side trip up to Crater Lake while waiting for a repair shop to
> weld up the hole in my motor home gas tank, so that's another 600 for a
> total of 6400 miles. I don't know if Tom Phelan's solo drive from East
> Coast to West Coast and back in his roadster would count because he had a
> several month "turnaround" at Vista, CA. TDROC has gone from Texas to
> Missouri and back as a club, and we went from Texas to Colorado and back,
> but that was over a several day period each time. I wanted to have a trip
> where we toured only the border around Texas, but that would also take
more
> than a day. Has anyone done a "One Lap Of" for their state? You would have
> to be less than , say, 30 or 50 miles from the border at all times, drive
on
> paved roads, and stay inside the state. Except for Death Valley I think
> Californians could do a "One Lap". I don't know about Nevada. Does New
> York State have paved roads? You could simply sit in your parked car in
> Rhode Island and do a "One Lap". I'll make a route for Texas if anyone
> wants it.
>
> Thanks again to Calspeed and his family for the wonderful hospitality
while
> we were in San Francisco, to Les Cannady for his help with my suspension
> problems, and for the warm reception all you Shasta folks gave us on our
> trip. I wish we were closer. We'll try to make it back out there soon,
and
> you're always welcome here in Texas. Our next TDROC meet is in New
> Braunfels in August, and you're all invited.
>
>
> Leisure Suit Terry
>
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