Road trip story...
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Not ours. A little background - my younger brother and wife sold the house, rehabbed a trailer RV and have been travelling north America the last few years. They are currently in Utah where they noticed an old rusting car off the side of a cliff. While searching online for details, they stumbled across this story - enjoy!
https://patrickcumby.com/finding-the-moki-dugway/
"It was never a good idea to drive an old and defective British roadster into the western desert, but the promise of adventure was so irresistible I did it anyway. It was June, 1987. Ronald Reagan was president and the Berlin Wall had not yet fallen. I was twenty-four years old, heartbroken from a great, failed romance. I was ready to take risks I would normally have never considered."
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I'm very glad you posted that story. It reminded me of what it was like to be young and foolish and still live to tell about it.
I grew up in an area where most cars were big domestic sedans and the earliest compact cars were Chevy Corvairs and Ford Falcons. The most exotic vehicle was a Renault Dauphine that a high school friend's father owned and a VW Beetle that my high school math teacher drove.
When I arrived at university in 1963, I was amazed at the number of sports cars around, especially the smaller British cars like the TR-3s, Austin Healeys, MGs, and so on. There was even a Jaguar XK-E or two. I could understand the allure of such cars. About 10 years later, when I met my wife, she was driving an Opel 1900 that she had bought in California and drove back to Pittsburgh when she decided to return east.
We made some memorable road trips in that car. One of my favorites was a ride up the Blue Ridge Parkway on the cusp of spring with the trees in full leaf in the lower portions and just beginning to leaf out at higher elevations. It was like driving through almost the entire season over a couple of days.
I'm also reminded of the following:
There was a young man from Boston
Who had a cute little Austin
He had room for his ass
And a gallon of gas
But his balls hung out and he lost 'em.Big Al
