From: mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: DAC Classic Trip Report
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 9:55 AM
Where's the pictures of the girls kissing????
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From: wuzmop@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:23:16 AM GMT -06:00
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Subject: [tcb] DAC Classic Trip Report
We head out Thursday at 9:30 am right on time. Mike and I
are in our buses from Dallas to Alvarado to meet Bodean and
Luke and family to head out. Two unproven cars in Lukes ghia
and Mike’s new 23. My bus has made this trip many times.
This time, it got a new shift coupler and the tranny fluid
changed before the trip, in addition to the normal
preparations.
Going around the loop and on to I35, hit 4 th gear GRRRR,
THUD, POP! I’m down. We pull off, and there are virtually
no flat spots, so I park it and get out. The bus didn’t
hold in gear and went for a ride with the family in it.
Luckily, it was a short ride and I had the wheels pointed to
the curb so it stopped, but the wife’s rapid heartbeat
continued. I had a good 30 minute ride at 40 mph in 3 rd
back to the house with Mike following to think up plan B.
Plan B, cram a bus full of crap and the family in the bug.
Now we have 3 unproven cars on the trip, and I’m scared to
death because the bug is my cruise around town hot rod, I
never intended it for long trips. Plus my daily driver bus
is at home dead, if I kill this one, I’m in trouble.
We baby the rides, cruising at a brisk 55 or so, I’m in
front, and 5 behind me including Bodeans truck and Sara’s
mini van. Cruise is going great until well after Hico in the
sticks somewhere some jackhole in a pick up yelled at a DPS
officer in front of us. The officer gets behind me, A) I’m
going up a hill B) I’ve slowed to pass him, he pulls me
over and says I was impeding traffic and he clocked me at
50. I explained the cruise, blah, blah, he gives me a
warning. I continue up to where the rest of the guys pulled
over, and Sara and Lukes mini van took a dump. They had AAA
and insisted that we continue, they would be back tomorrow.
We had a brief linkage issue with Mike’s bus, but made it
before the rain, I ran to Walmart and bought a tent and we
all set up camp. We had been there a couple of hours, went
to eat. I guess Bodean ran back to get his wallet and was
informed we couldn’t camp where we were, no signs, and
there was nobody to check in with when we got there. Steve C
worked it out in the morning, we were pretty adamant about
not moving since we managed to beat the rain and set up on
dry ground. Moving would mean putting our tents in the wet
grass. All is good!
Torrential storm on Friday morning and we hunkered down in
the tent and survived it unscathed. I think we all slept
thru it. Free nap! Yay!
I left early for the cruise to open the rest rooms at the
park. Got lost an hour out of the way, but still beat the
cruise there!
The rest of the weekend is a blur, saw a bunch of folks,
ran Murray through a brick wall, mud wrestling at the camp
site, girls kissing, the usual. Had a blast. Any more
information regarding the events is confidential.
We came home on Monday, got pulled over in a school zone on
the highway that I didn’t see. Had a wonderful debate
with a super nice officer on why I don’t have to have an
inspection on my antique registered car. Got a ticket for
speeding. Awesome.
The bug did fantastic! All our cars made it back home safe,
now I want to build a road trip bug!
