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Posted by 98_No_Bra (Member # 2351) on
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Very cool read. It's alittle long but you won't motice. A book and movie are being made.
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The gear is all bought and loaded. Twenty packs of Nat Sherman Classic Light cigarettes, check. Breath mints, check. Glucose and guarana, Visine and riboflavin, Gatorade and Red Bull, mail-order porta-pissoir bags of quick-hardening gel, check.
Randolph highway patrol sunglasses, 20-gallon reserve fuel tank, Tasco 8 x 40 binoculars fitted with a Kenyon KS-2 gyro stabilizer, military spec Steiner 7 x 50 binoculars, Hummer H1-style bumper-mounted L-3 Raytheon NightDriver thermal camera and LCD dashboard screens, front-and-rear-mounted sensors for a Valentine One radar/laser detector, flush bumper-mount Blinder M40 laser jammers, redundant Garmin StreetPilot 2650 GPS units, preprogrammed Uniden police radio scanners, ceiling-mount Uniden CB radio with high-gain whip antenna. Check. Check. Check.
Posted by 88DroptopGT (Member # 2535) on
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I thought thats already been done? Is he trying to beat Alex Roy's record holder for driving from NY to Santa Monica pier in 31 hours and 4 minutes?
Thats about ~89 MPH sustained over the whole trip! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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