Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many Americans, Rusty Wallace likes to take the car for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. But Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside. Helmeted, buckled up and clad in a fireproof jumpsuit, he averages about 150 m.p.h. in his 670-horsepower gold-on-black Pontiac and is usually hotly pursued by a roaring pack of heavily decaled Chevys, Fords and Chryslers. A Wallace outing, in short, is like a scene from the current Tom Cruise movie about stock-car racing, Days of Thunder. And no wonder: Wallace is the world-champion...
...than settling down with a guy named Bill. With a guy named Neal she got both excitement and domestic drudgery. The title, Off the Road, refers mainly to being bogged down trying to raise three children on a shoestring while waiting for Neal to return from his latest motorized jaunt...