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225 miles across the high desert in the new 445 444-544

posted by  someone claiming to be SteveW on  Thu Jun 12 05:30 CST 2003 [RELATED]

This sounds like a trip I made many years ago (about 1975) in my 445, from Atlanta to New England around Thanksgiving. Electrical system was fried due to short under the dash, the engine was shot and used more oil than gas, the brakes were suspect, the hood was held on with bailing twine, no heater, no parking brake, and so on. A friend and I drove it (alternately so we could spend time in the following car to get warm) over T'giving weekend. Aside from running out of oil once on an elevated overpass in Philly and not being able to stop for a couple of miles, and blowing a tire in NJ, the car made it home. Didn't get stopped once, lucky considering the car wasn't registered or insured, and the only working lights were the brake lights.

I slowly fixed it up and drove it for many years (brought my first born home from the hospital in it). Now it is in my shop undergoing a frame-off restoration. Hope to have it back together for the fall VOCA fall meet at Mt. Snow, Vermont.





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