[Fot] Longest Drive

[Mike Jankowski]

Finally cleaning out the backlog of my FOT emails. Figured I'd throw my
long drive stories out there. Had a 1980 TR7 convertible and went from
Indianapolis, IN back to my parents in Kingston NY, drove all over the
Catskills and Adirondacks and back in about a week and a half. Well over 2k
miles of driving. Also drove a TR4 from Indy to the UP of MI, then down to
a really big lake in KY, (Cumberland?) within 2 days, sailed on a houseboat
on that lake for a week, then drove from there to Montreal for the GP. Then
down to Kingston again, then back to Indy. No clue what the miles were. For
some reason I want to do another epic drive in my current Triumph Spitfire.
Mike


On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:20 PM, robert bownes <bownes at seiri.com> wrote:

> I think the original question was about race hours rather than road
> trips...But if you are going to talk road trips...
>
> Albany, NY to Dallas Tx for the 1989 VTR meet. Nonstop in the TR6. top
> down. Race in Dallas (win), pick up buddy at airport, drive to
> Minneapolis/St. Paul over 1.5 days (top down), spend 2 days in MSP, then
> non stop MSP->ALB some of it in the rain. Total somewhere in the
> neighborhood of 3400 miles in about 8 days. Was an epic road trip that can
> only be pulled off in college. ;)
>
>
> Plenty of other great road trips in that car... All with a race
> destination. My favourite is still autox on the streets of Waterloo, Iowa.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Vintage Racer
> <vintage.racer at comcast.net>wrote:
>
> > During Spring break from college in 1966, a good friend and I decided to
> > drive
> > my 1959 TR3 from the San Francisco Bay Area to Guaymas, Mexico which is
> due
> > south of Nogales.  Guaymas was a very small fishing village on the Gulf
> of
> > California and the only plans we made were to camp on a yet to be
> > determined
> > beach during our week stay.  In order to pack camping essentials and our
> > clothes we had to leave the side curtains behind due to lack of storage
> > space.
> > We left early one morning and arrived in Guaymas the evening of the
> second
> > day.  We alternated driving at each gas stop.  On our third morning we
> were
> > surprised to see two of our dorm mates driving towards the same beach
> > where we
> > were headed.  We joined forces and had an enjoyable time bumming around
> the
> > area.  The drive home was made in two days but the TR required a quart of
> > oil
> > at every gas stop.  Other than that, the car never missed a beat over the
> > 2300
> > miles we covered.  That summer, my father and I rebuilt the TR's
> > engine..great
> > little car but I sure appreciated the roll up windows on my friends new
> > TR4 he
> > acquired shortly after our return.
> >
> > Gary
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