Event Coverage The Edsel adventure

Have fun Jim...Picture of you and your brother screams Woodstock to me

 

Looks like fun, different too. Are you running in Drag Week this year? I hope to attend the Martin, MI day.

 

I'm signed up for drag week. Towing the Chevy II to Ohio.

We made it through Death Valley OK, to Bakersfield.

 

Foreign tourists taking pictures.



Strange rocks.



Felt really good to reach the hotel.

 

Looking awesome!

 

That Pontiac Aztek has got to be sticking out like a sore thumb

 

But the Edsel and that Rambler are the class of the field.

 

Ok, now I understand why Spiro Agnew is the mascot. Have fun.

 

The New York Times called the Aztec "the Edsel of our Day". Anytime someone comes up with a list of the ugliest or worst cars of all time, often you'll see the Aztec and Edsel make the same list. My favorite was from a Pontiac press conference. Pontiac was admitting that the Aztec was unpopular and either discontinuing it or seeking cosmetic improvements. Someone from the gallery suggested adding a horse collar grill. The response from the Pontiac spokesman showed their feelings were a little hurt,but they could not deny the sentiment.

 

The result so far. Moved down to fifth, but fortunately we don't give a crap.

 

Looks like some kind of BIZZARO Cannon Ball Run !

Oldmics

 

Whimsical Spiro Agnew anangrams...

http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/spiroa.html

 

How do you accumulate points? There's a Rambler and Edsel in the top 5 and 3 of the bottom 4 are Porsches....

 

Start with an old car made in France. Big points. Have a good story about how helpless you are. Rescue a fellow raver who is about to die in death Valley. And also go to all the checkpoints

 

I can't decide what I am more impressed by- the dingle balls, the Nixon sticker, or the swamp cooker.
What is this event called?? At first I thought it might be the 24 hours of LeMONS and I saw a sticker on the passenger side of the Edsel, but I thought that was a weekend closed course race.
This looks totally different.
Is it a rally, a race, sprint, road course, endurance survival,going the extra mile where there's less traffic?
Please enlighten this ol boy from flyover country

PS how is your tranny doing?

 

https://www.24hoursoflemons.com/rally Google is you friend

 

8 tracks and a CB radio man you're stylin'.
Breaker one nine ya got your ears on Squirrel?

 

I dig it Jim .........

 

How Butt-Turrible Is It?

• +0-66 for hooptieness of marque & model
• +0-66 for hooptieness of this particular example
• +0-66 for hooptieness of driver & passenger

Can we assume you made an easy 198 points?

 

Should've got at least 25 points for welding on one of the old cam bearings as a hood ornament.

 

Fantastic. I want to run in this now!

 

We started with 498 points.

The voltage regulator is now acting up. The trip from Santa Cruz to Monterey tomorrow is short, but then we need to get back home.

 

We figured out the regulator problem. Dirty contact. Made it to the finish line. Yay!

 

We'll stay tuned for the trip home!

 

We got third place! Woo-hoo!

 

Awesome thread.

 

Cool! In such a rally, that is arguably a more auspicious placing than winning outright.

 

YEEEeeeee HAAAAaaaaaa!!! Load the swamp cooler with Party Ice and fire up the 8-track! But no ABBA tapes, please.

 

Whoa, third place, that's a bronze medal or something, isn't it?