coachbarnes
Bronco Guru
Oh man! Seeing those sure brings back memories. Amazing how commonplace they were at one time. Not to mention pull-outs at every surface spring so you could refill, lots of turnouts on those uphill twisty roads at high altitudes, and nobody honking their horn as the line was piling up, because they were, or had at one time been in the same boat.
I remember a Buick that could hit 140mph with ease, pull from 55 to 75 in just a couple of seconds, but sputtered along at about 10mph tops heading over the Continental Divide. Holding the choke plates open with rubber bands so they wouldn't flood above 5000' elevations, running radiator blocks in the winter, desert bags in the summer, and getting in line at the local natural spring on the way to Santa Cruz along with all the other overheating cars and trucks.
We used to have a pretty good time hanging out with strangers having issues in common on the sides of old roads.
Hope your trip has the same "feel" to it, if hopefully without the same issues we used to deal with daily.
Wasn't so bad...
Paul
We have very similar memories!! Most people don't really know how to use the bags. They think they are just to store water, and don't know you need to soak them in water first and they'll basically seep out creating the same cooling mechanism used by evaporative coolers. They're really pretty ingenious. My pops used to run a sprinkler on our roof in PHX because we didn't have A/C in the house and the sprinkler (with blankets on top of the shingles) did the same thing to our house that these bags did to our car! Old tricks that are a dying breed, but create some pretty good memories.