'57 Nomad takes the lead

O.K......
I'm on I-80, commin' back from Winnimucca, Nevada. I'm pullin'a car trailer with my new 454 strapped on When...ZOOOOM...this '57 Nomad goes blowin' by me. Now mind you, I'm doin' 80 mph, and this guy just flys by.







I run up to 90 mph just to get where I could take another shot.


I passed him just before we got to the truck, but as soon as it was clear, he came around me again!

I ran with him for about 120 miles, 'till we hit some twisties and he slowed down to 70, I went on around and cruised on into Reno. Lost him when he went on West, on I-80, and I went North on I-395.
Wasn't a race, but what a way to fly!

That's a nice looking Nomad, too. Always loved those, but, it like many many others, I will never own.

That is a cool looking Nomad, reminds me of one a classmate had in high school. Both of you pulling trailers going that fast must have been a sight!

I have been passed by big trucks pullin' trailers, that were doin' 90. This road, I-80, is kinda like America's Autoban. It's posted 75, but smokey won't site ya unless you're doin' over 100.(usually)

I love hwys like that.

Oh sweet Lord, I love those tri-5's all done up purdy like like that. What a sweet car. And doin' all of 90 up and down the highways like that, brings new meaning to the expression "drive it like you stole it!!" Killer shots, bro, thanks for postin'!!

I did notice that the tow car had Nebraska plates. I'll just about bet he ran like that, for at least a 1000 miles. I wish I could have caught him at a rest stop, I REEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLY wanted a closer look at his car.

Drive it like he stole it? Maybe he did!

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I did notice that the tow car had Nebraska plates. I'll just about bet he ran like that, for at least a 1000 miles. I wish I could have caught him at a rest stop, I REEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLY wanted a closer look at his car.

Dude, I can totally relate... I am the exact same way about rods!!

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Drive it like he stole it? Maybe he did!

Bwaaaaaahahahahah!! Perhaps he did!

wish i had some roads like that around here! out west on some backroads must be nice for really driving.around here 95 is the fastest road around and even there you'll get pulled over for doing 80.i wish cops werent such assholes around here

Ya dug deep to find this post.
We have hwy 95 here in Nevada, it runs North from Vegas and then into Oregon. It cuts through the S. E. corner of Oregon, turns into Idaho, and then straight North to the Canadian border.
So....where is your "95"? Goin' through Nevada, you can cruise 80 all day. I take 95 North when I go to Idaho. Litterally miles and miles of straight, flat road. As much as 30 miles between turns that are so sweeping, ya don't even hav'ta slow down.

There is a big difference between US 95
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_95

and
Interstate 95
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95

US 95 is one of my most loved "power car" roads, although where I live now, I seldom get to drive it (used to live out west, really loved that road).  I-95 is a tractor-trailier race track running up the east coast, only a half hour from my home, the joke of course being, that most folks think 95 is the speed limit -- and in parts it seems to be, you either drive 90+ or get run over.

So Lee, wherebouts did ya live "Out West"?
We've prob torn  up the same asphalt!
This Nevada desert has some really high speed runs.
Miles, and miles, and miles, and MILES, of flat out, hammer down, white knuckled drivein'!   Reno to Vegas in around 6 hrs. (around 500 miles, I think, I'd hav'ta look it up. With Mom in the car, it takes about 8 hrs. )

I lived in both Carlsbad and Farmington NM, and a bit NW of Scottsdale for a bit, and in southern Colorado for while (my family is from there).  I remember US 95 -- there are straightaways to die for.  There is also a road (can't remember the number) in far west Colo, somewhere near Greeley, locally called "gun barrel highway" -- it went straight across a flat agricultural valley for 20+ miles, and the valley floor had a very slight negative bowl compared to the earth's round surface, so the net was the road was geometrically straight -- at night you would dim your lights for oncoming traffic only to realize 5 minutes later it was a car that had been ten miles away at the time. 
 
I love the desert southwest, and would prefer to live there, but my wife is from New York (I mean, really from New York -- when I met her she lived in Manhatten and thought "the country" was the suburbs where they had trees in the front yard.)  She just can't get used to the wide open spaces, so we compromised on North Carolina: it isn't Arizona or New Mexico, but then it isn't New England either: I can get out into "country" (county roads with one farm house every 1/2 mile) in only a few minutes and there are some nice twisty sports car roads here, particularly in the Blue Rdge Mountains, and a section of US 1 near here has a five mile straightaway, but unfortunately also has a perfect (and often used) hiding place for a state partol car. 

 I have a bud that grew up in Greeley, Co. (far eastern Colo., by the way)
34 and 85 meet in Greeley.
Azzirona? I've taken a couple of runs from Reno to Vegas, Vegas to Kingman, over to Flagstaff, turn right, and on to Tucson, then down to Tombstone. Ain't nothin' like those desert roads for wide open drivin'.  

Like Lee said about the oncomming traffic. coming in to Flagstaff from the east on 40 is like that. you can see the mountian and say "not long now" but it's a long time 'for ya get there with the kids in the back..."are we there yet?" ..."are we there yet?"
Nice long slow curves and lots of straight-a-ways.

The desert can be very decieving as far a distance. Schmidt, you can see for about 50 miles!
 
I got greese all over my hands right now, the weather has warmed up and I'm wrenchin' on the "Starship". FINALLY!!!    I'm checkin' CF when I take my "water" breaks.

'Atta boy Dave, I've been holdin' my breath waitin' for ya' to git go'in on that thing.

C'mon over Bro, I have more than one set of wrenchs.

Hmm- lets see, Ann Arbor to Reno-whata think, maybe 2000 miles-I've made it to Denver in 20 hours in a truck, I can probly' git to your place late tomorrow, want me to bring the torches, welder, grinder, or do you have enough to keep us both busy? I'd be there in a heartbeat if I did'nt have this sorta' half responsibilityof family and job and I almost forgot, I started teaching at the apprentice school, but other than that I'll be right over.

Looks cool

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Hmm- lets see, Ann Arbor to Reno-whata think, maybe 2000 miles-I've made it to Denver in 20 hours in a truck, I can probly' git to your place late tomorrow, want me to bring the torches, welder, grinder, or do you have enough to keep us both busy? I'd be there in a heartbeat if I did'nt have this sorta' half responsibilityof family and job and I almost forgot, I started teaching at the apprentice school, but other than that I'll be right over.

 
  Just a body Bro, just a body. I got all the tools we'd need.
I'll leave the light on!