The only time I've done anything like that before was when I went with a friend to the 1982 Car Craft Magazine "Street Machine Nationals" somewhere in Illinoise, Springfield I think. We were in my friend's car, a 1971 Nova with a 427 and a 4-speed, and nothing else. This car looked good from the outside but...the interior wasn't done and there was no radio, no 8-track, no A/C. It had vinyl bucket seats, a rubber floor mat and the console wasn't done yet so we just stuffed towels around the hole in the floor to keep the heat out from the headers. It felt like we had driven half-way around the planet once we finally got there. The whole weekend I kept thinking about the return trip and dreading it. So of course, I did it again the next year.
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