A beautiful day and an Oldsmobile
August 1st, 2020 | 07:28 AM
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From: Chicago, Illinois
A beautiful day and an Oldsmobile
Got bored and hopped in the '75. With a paper map, and the only rule being no interstates, I headed NW from Chicago to the beautiful driftless region of Illinois/Iowa/Wisconsin/Minnesota. 600 miles later I had a wonderful day, made it to the Minnesota state line before heading home.
Car got 12/13 MPG, pounding up the hills with the AC on, and ran excellent. 8 track player kept me company..
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Got to put the new tires to good use, and am just shy of 17k on the odometer now.
George
Car got 12/13 MPG, pounding up the hills with the AC on, and ran excellent. 8 track player kept me company..
zanxkIV.jpg
gydhlD4.jpg
XYHyfRU.jpg
5RUfTUh.jpg
mdZa0CU.jpg
iLfE7Ug.jpg
qdlg0kb.jpg
QJ3taFX.jpg
Got to put the new tires to good use, and am just shy of 17k on the odometer now.
George
August 1st, 2020 | 05:58 PM
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You're not kidding about the recliner part!
Olds really hit the mark on these things. Just massive, comfortable, and built for hundreds of miles of open road.. glad I can experience it, 45 years later. Although listening to Seals and Crofts, windows down, on a deserted 2 lane, there isn't much to make you realize it isn't 1975
Olds really hit the mark on these things. Just massive, comfortable, and built for hundreds of miles of open road.. glad I can experience it, 45 years later. Although listening to Seals and Crofts, windows down, on a deserted 2 lane, there isn't much to make you realize it isn't 1975
August 9th, 2020 | 02:50 PM
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There is nothing like taking a "big damn American car" out on the roads it was built for. Used to do the same thing years ago, head out with a full tank of gas and a DeLorme Gazetteer map book and go nowhere in particular for a couple hundred miles. Just for the sheer joy of it.
I remember ending up on a dirt road in the 76 Ninety Eight once and thinking well, I'm on it so I'll keep going. And then realizing how "Southern" it was, tearing down a dirt road kicking up dust in my "big damn American car". Like something you'd see in the movies, though I wasn't as far removed from the times a big fancy car on a dirt road was an everyday thing as I thought I was.
I remember ending up on a dirt road in the 76 Ninety Eight once and thinking well, I'm on it so I'll keep going. And then realizing how "Southern" it was, tearing down a dirt road kicking up dust in my "big damn American car". Like something you'd see in the movies, though I wasn't as far removed from the times a big fancy car on a dirt road was an everyday thing as I thought I was.
August 10th, 2020 | 06:57 PM
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Very nice trip, thanks for the pictures.
I can just imagine what my young niece would think of this:
OMG, you're sooo lucky to have survived! Like how did you do that? How did you know the map was like correct? What if like one of those roads like wasn't there anymore, like what would you have done? How did you know which way to go without like hearing directions? OMG how did you know which way was what without GPS? Like how did any of your friends know where you were? OMG you're crazy to venture out like that, it's just so dangerous.
I can just imagine what my young niece would think of this:
OMG, you're sooo lucky to have survived! Like how did you do that? How did you know the map was like correct? What if like one of those roads like wasn't there anymore, like what would you have done? How did you know which way to go without like hearing directions? OMG how did you know which way was what without GPS? Like how did any of your friends know where you were? OMG you're crazy to venture out like that, it's just so dangerous.
August 10th, 2020 | 08:14 PM
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^^^😆😆😆
I can truthfully say I've never had a paper map run me into the woods. I cannot say that for GPS.
The gravel county road that runs by the house dead-ends at the NC state line. To go any farther and connect with another gravel road on the NC side requires going thru about 250 yards of woods that only a tractor or ATV can go thru. Yet GPS insists on trying to route VIR rigs thru there to connect with the main road into the track. Hilarious watching them try to turn around at the dead-end or back out over 1/4 mile.
Kenneth, tell yer niece a GPS is a device to route you over the edge of a cliff 😏.
I can truthfully say I've never had a paper map run me into the woods. I cannot say that for GPS.
The gravel county road that runs by the house dead-ends at the NC state line. To go any farther and connect with another gravel road on the NC side requires going thru about 250 yards of woods that only a tractor or ATV can go thru. Yet GPS insists on trying to route VIR rigs thru there to connect with the main road into the track. Hilarious watching them try to turn around at the dead-end or back out over 1/4 mile.
Kenneth, tell yer niece a GPS is a device to route you over the edge of a cliff 😏.
August 10th, 2020 | 09:29 PM
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Online maps show a similar thing at my parents' house. Their street parallels a bayou and there's a road on the other side through the woods that dead ends at the the bayou. The online maps show the bayou is their street and that road makes a T connection to their street. I can't imagine how many people drove down that road just to see it dead end into the bayou in the middle of the woods.
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