74 NovaMan’s … Novas

[74NovaMan]

After that, still in the park, we got snowed on. We travelled from Wisconsin to Arizona in the first week of May and got snowed on. Go figure.

[74NovaMan]

We wound up staying in a little place called Kayenta. We arrived in the dark. Not couting the air travel, we covered about 410 miles on day 1.

[1badmonkey]

Charles - I love my air shocks. They are especially handy for Power Tour when the car is overloaded with tools, luggage and cooler. I'm planning on buying a new pair for the current iteration this week.

i had to have the air shocks to get the car off the tires!! funny stuff!

a friend had this photo of my car on his 'puter, but only way i could get it was take a pic of the screen... this was from the mid 90's the car had 275-60-14 bias ply tires... loved that raked look....

[74NovaMan]

i had to have the air shocks to get the car off the tires!! funny stuff!

Tha was my original motivation as well. I run a smaller tire now so the front and rear are the same size.

[74NovaMan]

When we woke up the next morning, we were greeted by this great view:

[74NovaMan]

From there, it was off into Utah and through Monument Valley.

[74NovaMan]

Somewhere near Moab we picked up this gorgeous stretch of road. I highly recommend Highway 128 if you ever get the chance.

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From there it was into Colorado and through the mountains. These are from rest stop near Vail:

[74NovaMan]

From there it was on to Denver. It may be worth mentioning that Mother’s Day was May 8 this year and I left my wife home with our 3 year old boy. I was hoping to drive straight through but the car and the kid were protesting. The car no longer wanted to maintain the 85 mph speeds that I was requesting so we called it a night and stayed in a Budget Host Inn located in the last town in Colorado on the way to Nebraska. It was a very high class establishment. This sign was posted in the room.

[74NovaMan]

We drove just under 700 miles for the day, bringing the total to 1,100 miles.

[74NovaMan]

On day 3 we woke up to this in the parking lot:

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We swapped out the fuel filter and topped off the radiator and were back on the road. Unfortunately there is nothing much to see on the interstate in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota or Wisconsin, so the road trip pictures stopped in Colorado. Here are some shots of the new and the old side by side:

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Day 3 was about 760 miles for a grand total of 1,860 miles in 60 hours.

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The next step was to take all the good stuff off the original 74 and sell the shells.

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Here they are loaded and ready to go.