this is absolutely the worst thing I've ever done in my entire life
ever just anyone could drive cross-country to the new car no good
drive across country to new Morgan
why am I doing this you know I'm best known for having been
the first guy in 24 years to cross the United States and break the 32:07 record
in 2006 with David Maher when I learned that our record had been broken much
faster and I really in just under 29 hours I became fascinated with other
records like what would it be like to go across country in a vintage car using no
technology no GPS now cell phones are write architectures no jammers the way
it was done when Cannonball Baker did it so I immediately knew I wanted to go out
as quickly as possible in the Morgan three-wheeler there is no more primitive
new vehicle you can buy so I don't really see the challenge and getting in
a modern car and trying to escape the police and maximize fuel economy I see a
great challenge and going across in this handbag crossed with a casket alive and well
it's Sunday now Friday afternoon I got a phone call that asked if I wanted to
participate in a transcontinental record in a Morgan three-wheeler and I said yes
and I was on a plane Saturday night and Here I am well I have never driven a
Morgan three-wheeler before and this is actually the first time I've ever seen
one in the flesh so experience levels I have zero experience with the Morgan
three-wheeler if you could have negative experience I would probably have a
negative experience met Alex a couple times reputation certainly precedes him
everyone has told me that I'm gonna freeze to death wearing my traditional
thin leather bonnet this is the nice little bonnet they've got I know where
my goggles are you could wear every day is Halloween you're driving a Morgan now
will this be comfortable and waterproof and safe no no despite whether or not he
has a reputation for being a little crazy you know he's done it enough times
that it's safe and he knows how to do it and get there in one piece so today
thank goodness Zach Bowman showed up at spot 44 the only mechanic George Meyer
who can really be trusted if you're going to risk your life in such a
vehicle who gave us a crash course and basic repairs tire changes things that
go wrong you're gonna get some heat in your legs you're coming straight for the
end is opened and coming straight over here
and things can go wrong with maybe a blow a tire if you drive too hard the
engine temperature but he can manage that I don't think the car is gonna
break down that's for sure I think it's gonna make it my favorite part of any
cross-country drive is the research and testing of bathroom solutions this time
I'll be bringing my Baja certified external catheter Bowman has declined to
use such a device however one thing these young guys like Bowman don't
understand when you hit 43 is the vibration in such a vehicle drink
anything and drive this thing for two hours if you can not pee in your pants
that'd be a miracle my name is Amber Blonagan and I own gie Automotive Group
and we do repair and maintenance and also customization on high-end exotic
cars as far as the Morgans going across the country I don't know that they're
well known for reliability I think driving one across the country would be
very brave I I don't know that I'd be able to do it am I worried about police
not particularly as far as collecting citations you know
that's that's part and parcel of what you're doing I'm more concerned about
the safety aspect than I am the legal aspect there are several
records claimed for Morgan three brothers cross country one of them is
nine days which included a severe vehicle fire I don't know if one can
ever get into a Morgan three-wheeler with complete confidence one will get
even ten miles without a problem so 2,900 2,800 2,900 miles if it can be
done we can do it BAM it's almost midnight and we were getting
ready to embark I've had probably six hours of sleep in the last 24 hours
so we're on there and it'll be another 40 before we get to New York one or two
people have suggested we might make it out of breakdown
neither remove ever driven such a vehicle past the LA basin but the
presence of Zach Bowman without a doubt has increased my optimism I have not
driven the car my first time driving it will probably be somewhere around dawn
maybe a little bit early and that when morale is at its absolute
lowest I'm most nervous about fatigue and honestly other drivers
it's a tiny car and it's low when it's black and it's the middle of the night
and it's loud as hell which is good but it's an easy thing to run over we live
in an age the automobile is coming to an end
autonomous driving safety technologies traction control and what we're doing
here tonight is a an ice pick in the face of sloth laziness and an era of
cowards that's coming and in the war on driving I am pro-choice and there's no
more raw driving than this
the book says 105 okay but safely
so we learned that period-correct clothing is not so good not so good
blankets baby well he's gonna want to do this again in like a week and beat this
record and not anymore not anymore this is good for
now you can stay like this this is the toughest one I've ever done these guys
these guys with heat and a roof but you kidding me
oh the blankets hang on who you want pass me a blanket
that's there anything else any other band right off
what
we're we're foing Zach hey George we have some kind of fluid leakage
Zach thinks it's transmission fluid leakage George will help prep the car
says it's because he overfilled the bubble box to be safe
that's squishy oh that's real quick
where's the metal box get out the back now face
just anyone could drive cross-country to the new car no good drive across country
to new Morgan bevel box really can't wait for the Internet to tell me how
unsafe this is it's definitely the bevel box
he said it's topped off it's overflowing it's fine we should drive thank you
George okay thank you now if you put your hand
to the pipe it warms it up why didn't I do that last night
I suffered I'd like to share something at the last gas stop where they would
not let us use the bathroom even though it said customers only and we were
clearly customers the manager pointed at my boot and said Oh
your shoelace is untied and of course I didn't want to tell him it's not a
shoelace so pretending it was a shoelace I bent
down to tie it and sprayed the protein bar section this what you never buy food
from the bottom Union store
stop top cop all the suspensions killing me laughter here we go
we'll catch you guys are the next off-ramp
he's gotten a second ticket up today
we're approximately 200 miles from New York we've used up the contingencies
that's it Morgan break down more it's done
Alex Roy and I just drove 41 hours and change to from LA to New York this is
absolutely the worst thing I've ever done in my entire life ever if you got
into a gondola and we're towed behind a speedboat during a hurricane would not
describe the discomfort I'm trying to sleep in that car
the low point grew much lower when my catheter would snag on the pavement at
high speed and I could feel the jerking motion through my through the car
through my pant leg it all the way up to my feet my unborn son's future high
points is that I did not receive any speeding tickets and Bowman received two
so these are all my commendations for driving across country
yeah driving 15 to 20 miles an hour over the limit which was nice because we were
doing way more than 15 to 20 miles an hour twin operated a vehicle in
violation of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code on the Pennsylvania Turnpike there
was no high point
I'm more convinced than ever someone's gonna go get killed trying to duplicate
our feat say this is the most dangerous thing I've done I think it's the most
Asian thing I've ever two days ago likes but I fully expected to be dead but the
guy left my wife and it was like the full
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