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1. Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:46:12 -0600
Their preparation consisted of a new set of fuel pump points in the Sprite, oil changes, and replacing the spark plugs. Off they went, across country. Successfully. Real men. Real cars. No worries.
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00098.html (8,260 bytes)

2. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:44:30 -0800 filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net
The first two trips I made from NY to the west coast all I carried was a rock for the fuel pump and a set of points. Granted, the car was nearly new then, but she was still a Spridget and made the ro
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00099.html (8,470 bytes)

3. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:28:44 -0800
Cap'n style? Pa
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00103.html (8,777 bytes)

4. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:31:29 -0800 filter05.roc.ny.frontiernet.net
Hell no! Kate
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00106.html (8,393 bytes)

5. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:43:44 -0800 (PST)
When I bought my Bugeye, I had never seen the car before, only knew the rep of the great guy I bought it from. So I asked him if it would make it from Louisville to cenral Florida. He said "it's got
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00107.html (11,041 bytes)

6. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:21:28 -0800 reply-type=original
"That means back roads, avoiding I have done it both ways (interstate vs surface roads) more than once. The back road version is only possible when you have plenty of time. It takes at least twice as
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00109.html (9,131 bytes)

7. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:20:58 -0800 filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net
I'm retired. Time I have plenty of. Interstate driving is boring, even in a fast car. In a slow one, it can be deadly. I can still run long hours, so I doubt that there would be over 10 - 12 hours di
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00110.html (9,021 bytes)

8. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 02:23:23 -0600
Way to go, Kate!! I put about 12,000 a year on motorcycles and NEVER the interstates unless there's no avoiding it! I learned a long time ago that you don't make much better time on the super slab th
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00112.html (10,876 bytes)

9. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 08:08:12 -0800 filter07.roc.ny.frontiernet.net
I'm damned near as old as Cap'n Bob I'm afraid I'm getting closer to the big "60" than I care to admit, but I will always be a kid at heart, just like my grandmother and mother. Both would embrace an
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00113.html (9,897 bytes)

10. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:08:40 -0600 {sentby:smtp 192.190.246.2 authed with dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com} with any abuse report
at That all depends on your definition of surface roads. For the last Sprite Spree I drove from Chicago's northwest suburbs to PA via US30. Did not pay a single toll and the trip that Google optimis
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00114.html (9,883 bytes)

11. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:13:28 -0500
I put about 6K a year on a bike. A friend has the slogan, "Back Roads. Period." He doesn't do highways. He's a real fanatic, though -- he'll do dirt roads (not hard to find in NH). -- Kent '56 100 BN
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00117.html (9,855 bytes)

12. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:33:41 -0800
All of this reminiscences of driving long trips sent me to scrounging around in boxes of my old records (including 40-year old Texaco credit card receipts), a task that conjured up so many fond memor
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00118.html (12,392 bytes)

13. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:43:54 -0600
<<(And yes, this is yet another note destined for my "autobiography".)>> At least SOME of will have one, Buster!! We ALL know a certain Ret. piletto whom will NOT!! LOL Thanks!! Ed
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00119.html (9,185 bytes)

14. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:45:06 GMT jB5NjMr1024852
"real men"....hah! I used to drive regularly out to Penn State from Stamford way back when. Trips up to Limerock, Bridgehampton, Watkins Glen, etc. .....great fun. But, BTDT. Today, long range "cruis
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00120.html (9,515 bytes)

15. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:03:12 GMT jB603RtG025507
"Back roads and avoiding the interstates..." Oh, yeah.... more time consuming no doubt, but definitley a more fun way to go for sure. Were I driving the distance (NOT!), I'd definitely be going this
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00121.html (9,259 bytes)

16. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:27:36 -0600
Guess I must be a "fanatic too, then... My bike travels have taken me: Coast to coast more times than I can remember...8? 10? Twice around mainland Europe - 8 countries, Once around the entire Medite
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00122.html (11,470 bytes)

17. RE: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:46:43 -0600
All this talk of distances and back roads gets me thinking... Is anybody up for the Missouri Endurance Rally this upcoming April 1-2? Phil Vanner Mini Appolis --Original Message-- From owner-spridget
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00124.html (9,558 bytes)

18. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:22:58 -0800
Is that anything like the old 5-State Rally? Buster Evans
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00125.html (9,942 bytes)

19. RE: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:37:58 -0600
You start in St Louis at 9AM. They give you 10 or a dozen places you have to visit in Missouri; and you have to visit, prove you were there, and return to the start within 24hrs. Whoever does it in t
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00126.html (9,817 bytes)

20. Re: Cap'n Bob and driving distances (score: 1)
Author: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:57:50 -0500
<long list of trips snipped> Wow. I bow to you, sir. I'd love to be able to ride/drive cross country, just once. But to do it right, I'd need about 6-8 weeks, and that won't happen any time soon. And
/html/spridgets/2005-12/msg00127.html (10,380 bytes)


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