What idiot would drive to TX with 80 miles on the car?

Damn. A trip like that is exactly what I want to do.
I hate you.
J/K

Thanks for the great post and pics.

 

Cool pics! Glad to hear it was fun and there were not any major problems. My sister moved to Austin 2 years ago to be with her new hubby. I was there for Christmas - a cooler place than I thought for the middle of Texas.

A low test-driven vehicle/long drive story:
I drove to Miami FL from IL in 1991 in a 80 Fiat Spyder with a rebuilt engine with about 150 miles on it (welded crank, misc other engine parts due to very low oil pan and stupid brother). After about losing a wheel due to loose bolts (no studs on that hub) and changing my shorts (try finding a metric bolt in farm country on sun pm) an hour into the trip, I made the very nervous trip (every bump/vibration - "hey, is the wheel gonna fall off?") with some plain metric bolts and drilled out acorns to seat them.

/threadjack over

Any more pics of Heidi??? What was on her buckle?

 

your coupe is bad to the bone...Nice pictures...thanks for sharing.

 

Great pics. sounds like a heck of a time.

 

thanks kool pics

 

Well she HAD heard of the Hot Rod Hucksters at least, so that was pretty cool too.