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Re: Longest 'road trip' on your own wheels
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Posted by Ebbsspeed on November 03, 2004 at 14:46:40 from (24.145.255.215):
In Reply to: Longest 'road trip' on your own wheels posted by gwb on November 03, 2004 at 11:36:44:
Sometime in the middle 30's my grandfathers brother drove his F-12 Farmall from Bridgewater, SD to Wessington Springs, SD. which would be a trip of right at 90 miles or so on today's roads, not sure how far it was back then. This was an F-12 on steel, but grandpa said they removed the lugs and just drove it on the rims. My longest trip on my own "wheels" was about a 200 mile round trip on a 90cc Kawasaki, back in the summer of 1971, to visit a girlfriend at her parents lake home. I was 16, and never did tell my folks about it. If they had known I went that far on that weedwacker-powered cycle they probably would have melted it down. Not to mention the fact that they weren't too fond of the girl, her being Catholic and me being Baptist.
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