teamzr1
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Some years ago I drove the PCH from San Francisco to San Diego - taking in the Pebble Beach Concours on the way. Then moved inland to drive Death Valley (127° F !) and on the way stopped to take this shot......
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...of the Sierra Nevadas. Very corny I know but the view was just asking to be taken.
Early 1970s I was driving a new Olds from Chicago to LA Ca using Route 66 in mid-summer
I got just close to Ca state line and BANG, all the coolant drained out :-(
Here it is weather in 90s, hot sun and nothing but empty land, snakes and vultures
Cop comes by and says he has a brother who owns a repair shop in Needles, Ca at the state line to come tow me to his shop
He then says he has another brother who has a motel to stay and would have my car fixed within 1 day
That day goes by, nothing from that shop, day 2 still nothing, and now I think I am in a movie where I will never
get out of that dinky town and day 3 sure I will never be seen alive again
4th day I had to call around LA Ca and get a tow truck to drive all that way, then take all the pieces of engine that was ripped down
and tow car and me to LA for a dealer to fix it for nothing under GM warranty
Was when GM started using aluminum heads and in that head 1 head warped and there went the coolant