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    The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America

    Bad Drivers Must Smell The Boot Of Mistress WTF!

    Advances In The 24 Hours Of LeMons Correctional System: The Burning Man Penalty

    Brother, Can You Spare A Transmission? Broken Cars At The Goin' For Broken 24 Hours Of LeMons

    Ready To Dispense Some Nevada-Style Justice!

    Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!

    Uncounted Treasures Sleep In Desert Junkyards

    Nevada Sen. John Ensign May Stall Auto Bailout, Thinks Casinos Deserve Cash

    Tunachucker Hero Eats Nevada Sand For A Week, Brings Back Mutant Vehicle Photos

    Pahrump: Whores, Poker, Drive-Thru Bars=Good... 24 Hours of LeMons=Bad
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    06/28/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    I did it alone on a Honda PC800 in the mid-1990's, on a week's worth of screwing around out west. There is freaking nothing out there. Every once in a while, I would just stop, and walk about 2-300 yards off the road. Could have been Mars. Seriously. And at night, the stars aren't in the sky, so much as pressing down on you in swarms, like millions of blue-white bees.


    Oh, and never eat the jimson weed. Don't ask.

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    Image of bdon bdon
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @bdon: Err... right. See ya.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    06/27/09

    @bdon: The EGR recirculates a bit of exhaust into the intake air charge to help with emissions.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    I don't think I'd want to go any faster than 85 or so, anyway, no matter how straight and barren it is. The half-fishbowls would fall off my headlamp buckets.


    I need to pull and re-hot-glue those.

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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    Murilee,I don't know how you accomplished this. Each and every time I stare at a 6 hour trip across the New York State Thruway (from Buffalo through Albany) and then onto the Mass Turnpike, I just want to shoot myself. And I do this with an Altima! I set the Cruise to 74, and inevitably, within the first two hours, I have to pull off the highway to keep from falling asleep.


    The lure of driving from CT to the South has lost it's allure for me, same with going west. I would just as well get on a plane, rather than drive the distance anymore. It might be the car, but I feel the same way in most rentals, so maybe not.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @UDMan: The drive I just did has very few long boring stretches. Mostly hills and curves.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    I don't hear any crazy middle eastern jihad music, is this in the right car?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    By the way, the Civic averaged 42 MPG, loaded with 500 pounds of crap and doing 80+ with the AC on most of the way. I knew there was some payoff for the lack of power and comfort!
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    /Threadjack/


    Is the front page completely hosed for anyone else?


    All I'm getting are the 1-liners where they link to a post from another blog.


    /threajack

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @Mad_Science: Authorities have been notified. It should be fixed now.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    06/27/09

    @Murilee Martin: Much better.


    Did they deploy the Hamster Dragoon Brigade?

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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    06/27/09

    @Mad_Science: I thought it was only me....
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    Add a little veer-to-the-right misalignment and you've got a real world approximation of Desert Bus.
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    Image of Xargs: LeMonaider Xargs: LeMonaider
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    er 'swimming', and it's not like I've only ever gotten ONE ticket in my driving career, just one in NV, ever.
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    Image of diddiyo diddiyo
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    kansas isn't any better:


    [i78.photobucket.com]

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    Image of eatadonut eatadonut
    06/28/09

    @diddiyo: 40 is pretty much always "busy" in the daytime (coming from a guy who lives on the Eisenhower most of the time, busy is relative). At night, you still get a fair number of trucks.


    ">Wichita to Denver in my miata.
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    Image of eatadonut eatadonut
    06/28/09

    @eatadonut:


    I got a C- in markup class. One more try, and then I'll give up.

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    06/28/09

    @eatadonut: I think I see the place, around 3:32, where the clouds are moving toward you, and the alien spacecraft looms overhead with a bright light. My only question: was it a quick scan, or anal probing and the whole 9 yards?
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    Image of Xargs: LeMonaider Xargs: LeMonaider
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    I took 50 to St. Louis in my '87 Toyota Tercel 4WD Wagon, and it's brick on the gas pedal and read a book time in one of those. 89mph for hours and hours.


    Bay Area-->Flint,MI-->Corpus Christie,TX-->Bay Area(via Vegas/395) 8000mi in 10 days including swinning in the Gulf and touring the bombed out wasteland that is Flint.


    I've only ever gotten one ticket in over 4000 mi. of 100+ mph driving and riding in the last 20 years, and that one was too close to Vegas 'Hey, that's a Camaro... with a LIGHTBAR!' -wails on brakes and waits for the turnaround- (officer) 'That's 83 in a 70.' $180 and cursed reciprocity w/CA, so raised insurance for a couple years.

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    Should have done the overnight stay in Battle Mountain, Murilee. My parents owned and operated the Desert Club and the Calico Club, legal brothels, in Battle Mountain in the eighties and nineties. Now the Desert Club is closed and the Calico is known as Donna's or some such.
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    Image of Maxx Cracker Maxx Cracker
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    I'm going to find a '91 Plymouth Sundance with ~220K miles for this trip. I'm optimistic.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @Maxx Cracker: Hmmmm... I see a need for a San Diego-to-Maine rally for $250 cars. Winner gets a Greyhound ticket home!
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    Image of Stranger than most Stranger than most
    06/27/09

    @Murilee Martin: better yet a $500 Maine beater to drive home.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @Stranger than most: Talk about parts falling off...
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/28/09

    @Murilee Martin: I'd fly to San Diego, buy a rust-free $250 beater, drive it home, and make a fucking profit.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    I'm thinking that a gleaming new Cadillac would be ideal for that trip. Preferably with a driver, so I can ride in the back with a pair of Eastern European hookers. I wonder if GM would set me up with that...
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/27/09

    @Murilee Martin: Great idea but the Eastern European hookers are no longer available. They were included in management severence packages.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @Alfisted: What? And GM still calls itself a car company?
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    07/04/09

    @Murilee Martin: Eastern European hookers!?! What do you think this is, some high class operation like Škoda? Here in the land of the free, I'm sure we can hook you up with a few of Las Vegas' finest transvestite hookers.
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    Image of clocker clocker
    06/27/09

    In reply to The Ol' Civic Takes On The Loneliest Road In America
    If you're hitting "10,000- and 11,000-foot passes just east of Denver" things have changed around there.

    Or you're taking a really weird route.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @clocker: Whoops, I meant west. They haven't moved Denver.
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