This is a very malicious thread. Vinke knows darn well most southern trappers never finished high school. Shame on him!

That's still over 400 miles. How long did it take to do it? Any good stories from the trip?

I knew a weird guy named Jimmy, who worked as a projectionist at one of the movie theaters we had an account with. He was probably 6' 5" and probably didn't weigh much over 135 pounds. He had a white man's fro of black hair, pale skin, huge nose and Groucho Marx looking glasses. Jimmy decided to hitchhike around the US on around $100.00. Jimmy was very smart and very odd. When he ran out of money, he bought a can of Alpo and a can of chipped beef. He sold the Alpo for a little less than he paid for it to a bum, to feed the bum's dog. He cleaned out the empty can of Alpo in a bathroom and put the chipped beef in it. He would sit outside of grocery stores eating chipped beef out of the Alpo can. Without him asking, people would give him money and food.

He eventually ended up in Phoenix, Arizona. Businesses wouldn't let him in because he was too scuzzy looking. The water faucets on houses mostly had locks on them, so he hadn't drank or eaten for a few days. He passed out in an alley in the morning. He woke up in the evening with a cop tapping him in the ribs with his foot. Jimmy ended up dry heaving on the cop's foot. The cop took him back to the station. He told the cops his story. They fed him, hydrated him and took up a collection to buy him a bus ticket back to Ohio. The cops gave him a ticket and a little money, dropped him off at the bus station and told him not to come back.

Jimmy had a lot of goid stories about crazy things he did.

Keith

I wanted to build a 12 second street car
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It just took 4 years ...and in 1978 ...I ran a 12.69 @ 108.88 mph

In my 57 Chevy Station Wagon

This is a very malicious thread. Vinke knows darn well most southern trappers never finished high school. Shame on him!