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Best Wishes and Safe Travels. Like I said if you guys get into trouble in Eastern Co. or Ks give me a call. Honestly it doesn't matter if it's 3:00 am. The number is 316-263-4199 ofr the shop and if you would like I can email you or PM you with my cell. Hopefully you won't need to use this info, but I'm more than willing to extend a helping hand. That's what this site is all about.
 
bluewhale,

Thank you again -- a most magnanamous offer, and deeply appreciated. I'm pretty sure we'll go south to Bakersfield, cross the Mojave, and then drop down to I-10. But you can rest assured I'll have your information with us in case we take a more northerly route.

Bernard
 
Bernard, FYI, 99 has more stops available than I-5. If your in Southern Oregon near dusk, spend the night at the Rice Hill Exit (just north of Sutherlin) for a cheap clean hotel and some neat photo ops...
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Great Balls,

TY -- will revist the Atlas tonight.

Great car; what's under the hood?

B
 
Can one mill the head of a 248 a bit for more power, and not put the valves at risk?
 
Dee and I fly out tomorrow (3/19/05) and beging the return trip Suday, 20th.

Last year my game warden daugher was almost killed in a line-of-duty ATV accident. She's giving herself a Survival Party in northeast Virginia on the 25th. If I-90 over the Sierras is dry Sunday/Monday, we'll go east from there to make the party. If not, we'll go south through California to Bakersfield to see friends, then cross the Mojave and wiggle our way down through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Missippi, and Alabama. Here are the Mice and Men's plans, which are sure to go asunder at some point:

IF EAST FROM WA:

Stanwood to Moses Lake, WA, Sunday afternoon/evening, 252 miles

Moses Lake, WA to Big Timber, MT, Monday, 564 miles

Big Timber, MT to Vivian, SD Tuesday, 610 miles

Vivian, SD to Des Moines, IA, Wednesday, 581 miles

Des Moines, IA to Mansfield, OH Thursday, 673 miles

Mansfield, OH to Colonial Beach, VA, Friday, 517 miles

Colonial Beach to London, Ky, Saturday, 560 miles

London, Ky to Pensacola, FL, Sunday, 599 miles

If I can talk Dee into missing work Monday, we'll take the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway from Colonial Beach to London and take 1.5 to 2 days doing it.

IF SOUTH FROM WASHINGTON:

Stanwood, WA to Portland, OR Sunday afternoon/evening, 225 miles

Portland, OR to Weed, CA via Crater Lake, OR and Klamath, OR, Monday, 477 miles

Weed, CA to Bakersfield, CA, Tuesday, 417.70 miles

Bakersfield, CA, to Williams, AZ, Wednesday, 449.62 miles

Williams, AZ, to Albuquerque, NM, via Grand Canyon, Thursday, 459 miles

Albuqureque, NM to Fort Worth, TX, Friday, 597 miles

Fort Worth, TX to Pensacola, FL, Saturday, 688 miles

Apparently illogical routings and stops are for visiting friends along the way.

As of this morning (Friday, 18th), the forecasts for I-90 east out of Washington and across Idaho and South Dakota weren't promising. We'll make the call after one last check from the seller's computer, but right now it looks like we'll be ging south.

Y'all all hold a good thought for us . . . .
 
P.S>: We'll be carrying cell phones 850/516-9488 and 850/516-9489, keeping one on until it fades, then turning the other on, since we can't charge from the 6-volt system. If we're passing close by anyone, give us a shout and come out and honk us some encourgement !

(I'll try to remember to ask the seller, a super nice gentleman named Don Schultz, to post a notice here to say which way we headed.)
 
I hate to be the pessimist here, but I think that this is a bad idea. I considered driving my newly purchased '63 Rivi from K.C., MO to Tampa, FL. I fortunately found a decent transport company to bring the car down for $600. Trust me, money well spent. I was going to do the drive myself. Counting gasoline, motel/hotel nights, food, airline flight, and the cost of my time, it was seriously a "No Brainer" decision. This was further reimforced when I started working on the car. The electrical system sensed a high impedance load when the headlights were on. So the voltage to the headlight s would fluctuate about 1V. Absolutely, annoying and probably could not have driven the car longer than 15 min in the dark. All four brake cylinders were leaking badly. Power steering hoses were fixin' to go....... I hope my Florida Buick brethren make it home, OK.
 
I don't get the feeling that Bernard was looking at this trip from an economy standpoint.
The impression I get is that he wanted the "adventure" of it all.
We all made some valid points pro and con about this trip.
Let's hope his "adventure" is safe, so that he can share his experience with the rest of us, once he is home.
 
Here's another problem that I can envision... Even if you bring a box full of parts, finding a shop that will install customer supplied parts can be very frustrating. It seems that repair shops don't wont to miss out on the profit margins on the parts. All of the chains, (goodyear, firestone, tires plus, etc.) all refuse to install customer supplied parts. They claim that they are "unable to warranty" the work. I even called a "mom and pop" shop, and even they refused.
 
Well, Boyz and Girlz, we're home. I'm going to start at new thread about the trip, and will probably post a day or two's adventures each day for the next several days.

Thanx for all the advice, offers of help, and good wishes!

B
 
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Bernard:
Dunno if I had the right to appear here, but I'm dying of envy reading all those fabulous experiences of yours.
Only recall you MUST mind how things go when you're Spanish and reach the glory when pay 25000 $ for this incredible beautiful 'Nette '49 ex-Texan. No-no-no-no-no rust NOWHERE. (How's that possible?) Only trouble: Except tacho, no instrument goes. None, yup! Same with the vacuum-operated wiper. Two hell of winters without wipers, oh boy, you can't simply imagine what can be.
Then, two years later,
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, my daughter (envidious, naturrally), bought in the same shop (Paris, France), a beautiful HT Caddy '57, comes to Barcelona 90 mph, came my home and shout: "Hi, daddy, we got a classy too. AND THE WIPER GOES!!!!" I think I shoulda kill her tem.
Those little aircraft wiper engines are impossible to adjust. Sob!
Finally, in Sweden, July 2002, we found a wreck Caddy '48 in a junkyard and bought the entire damn device by just 10 $. :D .
My daughter's ironic expression turned just plain. :rolleyes:
And now seriously, how fortunate all of you are!
Viva 8 en línea!!!
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Quijote,

I would have killed my daugher then. . . . lol

We used a liquid on the windshield that so reduces surface friction that water drops draw up into tiny spheres and bounce or roll off, with no sheeting of the water across the wildshield--it is much easier to see when the wipers stop moving---much, much easier. You probably have such a project in Spain. One US brand name is Rain-X, but there are others. Of coures, you cheated and installed an electric wiper system from a Caddy . . . . .(but would still be good to use the product). I still have to use a momentary twitch of my foot on the gas pedal to get a quick sweep out of the wipers . . .
 
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