In my experience old cars are like old people, they need plenty of fluids and occassionally they leak a little fluid. So providing you have been doing all the basic maintenance for your car I would say that on the road the importatnt thing is to check fluid levels at regular intervals. I check the oil, coolant,brake fluid levels at every fuel up. I regularily go on 1000 miles + trips in my 120 and I've always arrived (sometimes a little grubby). Re: the generator... if your gen fails you can still travel at least 5 hrs on the battery as long as you aren't using fans, wipers, lights etc.. I once did 10 hrs with a little charge in between. The only problem with this approach is that if the fan belt fails it's only the temp gage that tells you melt down is approaching. I always travel with a spare fan belt, a few basic hand tools, and a multi meter. Have fun, Patrick.