Saw "Vanishing Point" again yesterday. Road trips thread

[thebestMAX]

Not much of a movie but made me want to go for a drive like that again.
Dodge Challenger R/T HOOOOO, boy.

Some of my road trips:

New York to Great Falls, Montana 47 hours by my lonesome with NO uppers or alcohol. Not trying to set a record either.

Other solo non stop trips:
Great Falls, Mt to Phoenix, Az.
New York to Champaign , Illinois
Kansas City, Mo to Miami, Fl (several times)
Kansas City to Dallas (Easy)

Many others.

You?

 

[vec]

From Dayton, OH to Canton, OH. That was the longest drive of my entire life and I'm not talking about the length in miles.

 

[gnognugs]

Chicago to Minneapolis to KC to Chicago in roughly (give or take 20 minuets), 24hrs.

Hehe, vec Quantum phychology: "I swear, it was like 10 years."

 

[rgb7]

Fort Worth TX to Chattanooga TN and back on my bike, almost 1700 miles round trip.

 

[Shantanu]

Palm Beach, FL to Toledo, OH when I was a kid. Around 1,300 miles. Took my parents 2 days

 

[ultravox]

Montreal to Calgary then Calgary to Vancouver then Vancouver to Los Angeles.....sore ass after all that.

 

[troglodytis]

when i graduated hs i wanted a break from EVERYTHING.

so i got by big brother to rent me a car for 10 days and i drove.

i live in texas and not having ever been out of the country naturaly i headed straight to canada. i didn't have a lot of cash...so i slept on the side of the road or camped out in a pasture. the whole trip was about 6500 miles. on the 7th day i woke up at 6 am in sioux falls, sd and drove to texas non stop...about 800 miles. i was so sick of being in the car by that time that i went as fast as i could...took me about 11 hours.

during the trip i did get a ticket in montana. it was the crazest thing...got pulled over for going 70 something in a 55. the cop said 'that will be $5'. took me by suprize! i had never heard of paying the COP(ya have to go to the court building to pay in tx or mail it in). and $5?!?!?! i was ready for $150.


the trip was a blast....tons of ME time and met losts of great people. loved every minute of it.


thanks for the opporunity to take that drive down memory lane.

 

[jorken]

you paid the cop $5? bwhahahah

 

[thebestMAX]

Yeah,

When the speed limit was changed to 55 Montana had no speed limit except for "reasonable and prudent". If they didnt enforce 55 they lost Federal funding for roads and so forth so the pay me $5 rule came to exist.

Ill do that anytime, anywhere they catch me anytime.

Trog-

Love those drives. Did many more than listed and most were great fun and lots of fatigue. Sort of like a runner hitting the wall.

Tx to Tenn on a bike, Owchie. I did Sturgis one year form Iowa on a Triumph 650 and a Sporster. (We traded off) Yeah, my Sportster made it.

 

[warcleric]

troglodytis: ummm wouldnt Mexico have been much closer?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Gautamala to Austin, Texas. 56 hours straight by Bus....about 12 of them in all.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Boba_C did you ride the trace?

 

[rahvin]

<<When the speed limit was changed to 55 Montana had no speed limit except for &quot;reasonable and prudent&quot;. If they didnt enforce 55 they lost Federal funding for roads and so forth so the pay me $5 rule came to exist.>>

And as soon as that requirement was dropped they went right back to the same rule. Of course that rule naturally means that if you mess with the cop or he doens't like you, then your speed wasn't &quot;reasonable and prudent&quot;.

 

[gnognugs]

Yeah, but if you actually go to court to fight the ticket, most judges will throw out like up to 110mph, so I hear.

 

[troglodytis]

warecleric: that's exactly why canada was so apealing.

 

[kamiam]

OMG!!! Vanishing Point!!! my cult classic... all my buddies back in the 70's &amp; 80's drove MOPAR MUSCLE and mine was the 440 6-pack 70 Dodge Challenger... drove it thru Georgia in 1982 doing 145 on one stretch....what a ride