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...Brock Yates article in Sports Illustrated or in Car and Driver, or perhaps had read the Yates book, "Sunday Driver," all of which mentioned the Yates-Gurney time from New York to Columbus--six hours. Yates said most of the cruising had been at about 80 to 90 mph, with a brief stretch on a western highway at 170 mph. The average speed, including gas stops and speeding delays, was about 80 mph. One incredible thing, though, made this race more than a case of boring elitism, Grand Prix pilot Gurney winning a hoked up race through Howard Johnson land...
...special clinic in time, and for medical reasons, couldn't fly. It worked. Other entrants dressed in priestly garb, and there were other methods as well. (I knew of one fellow, who although he never heard of this race, went across the country in an ambulance at 110 mph. At one point he got a police escort to the nearest hospital, and managed to lose the car at an interchange...
...THERE was an ominous note to the second race, begun sometime around the beginning of the oil boycott, but perhaps before the 55 mph speed limit. Several entrants showed up at the garage that nobody knew. Doped up and pilled up and on the wrong side of the thin line that defined the difference between the Teddy Rooseveltism and anti-Naderism and essentially libertarian philosophy of Yates and the dangerous Hunter Thompson nihilism that no one but children and Hells Angels take seriously. "I mean there was guys rolling up to the line with unvented 50 gallon drums...
...which are philosophic, as "Brock is a complicated man." One of them is to show that speed limits as they are now set up are an infringement upon liberty and good sense as well. One contestant cited the fact that the top speed limits for the country are 55 mph, whether on a two lane country road or on a six lane interstate designed for speeds, well, of the Cannonball. "They tried speed limits in Germany, where gas costs maybe $2 a gallon, and finally had to stop the restrictions after protests. After removing restrictions, the percentage of accidents went...
...Contract. Are these despicable men cousins of the NRA and Birchers, neo-Nazis ready to tromp on the right of the rest of the highway passengers to avoid the shock of a Traveco Mobile Home with mad dog Joe Frasson at the wheel rattling by their VW at 110 mph? Or are they sportsmen and liberators, by their brave example, putting their drivers licenses on the line, trying to get us all out of the prisons we are in? Rousseau noted the motto over the Genoa jails--Libertas--with favor, believing that men who would trample on the rights...