Rocket Power
09-03-2006, 06:47 PM
Well I am back from Colorado and now my ebay 64 Cutlass is home safe.
A HUGE thanks to Memphis for letting me use his trailer for the trip.
We took my friends Dually Pickup rather than mine since I didn't know if mine would like towing in OD and his is fine with it. Yahoo maps said around 18hrs but that doesn't figure in stops so it actually took us about 23hours to get there with a rest stop to take a nap and terrible storm in CO. I actually called back here to have my mom look on the internet to see if there were tornado warnings where we were . The odd thing in Iowa and some of nebraska was that mid grade was cheaper than 87 because of it being 10% ethenol. The cheapest gas I got was 2.39/gal for mid grade. Colorado actually was higher in a lot of places than here, but it was all small towns I bought it in. I probably spent about $500-600 in gas. But being that 64's in good shape are hard to find at any price I figure it's worth it.
Another lesson learned is just because it's a small town doesn't mean there won't be problems getting hotel rooms:goof
I didn't make reservations so we ended up driving to Pueblo about an hour away and staying in a not so great part of town because of a race and fair in the area. Sometime between us cheacking in @1am and leaving at 7 am a brand new buick got graffitied at a dealership a block away. The part of CO that we saw was mostly big ranches with little towns every 60-100 miles. So I didn't let the gas get below 1/2 tank since I didn't know when I'd get some next.
You would not believe all the old 50's and 60's pickups I saw just sitting in peoples yards that look better than most 80's pickups around here.
Here's a few pics before i go to bed.
And don't be getting all jealous of my 14" aluminum slots either. I hauled those all the way out there just to be cool on the ride home:rolf
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/64-1.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/64-2.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/64-3.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/Iowagas.jpg
A HUGE thanks to Memphis for letting me use his trailer for the trip.
We took my friends Dually Pickup rather than mine since I didn't know if mine would like towing in OD and his is fine with it. Yahoo maps said around 18hrs but that doesn't figure in stops so it actually took us about 23hours to get there with a rest stop to take a nap and terrible storm in CO. I actually called back here to have my mom look on the internet to see if there were tornado warnings where we were . The odd thing in Iowa and some of nebraska was that mid grade was cheaper than 87 because of it being 10% ethenol. The cheapest gas I got was 2.39/gal for mid grade. Colorado actually was higher in a lot of places than here, but it was all small towns I bought it in. I probably spent about $500-600 in gas. But being that 64's in good shape are hard to find at any price I figure it's worth it.
Another lesson learned is just because it's a small town doesn't mean there won't be problems getting hotel rooms:goof
I didn't make reservations so we ended up driving to Pueblo about an hour away and staying in a not so great part of town because of a race and fair in the area. Sometime between us cheacking in @1am and leaving at 7 am a brand new buick got graffitied at a dealership a block away. The part of CO that we saw was mostly big ranches with little towns every 60-100 miles. So I didn't let the gas get below 1/2 tank since I didn't know when I'd get some next.
You would not believe all the old 50's and 60's pickups I saw just sitting in peoples yards that look better than most 80's pickups around here.
Here's a few pics before i go to bed.
And don't be getting all jealous of my 14" aluminum slots either. I hauled those all the way out there just to be cool on the ride home:rolf
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/64-1.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/64-2.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/64-3.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/64cutlass/Iowagas.jpg