Transcontinental Ford Escort

By Jen

AKA SusyBruisy

Later this week, Im setting out for Seattle from New Yorkin a 25-year-old Ford Escort. My Escort has already made the nearly 3000-mile journey once, pre-restoration, when I moved out here for grad school. Itll be making the return trip on a completely new drivetrain, and Im sure that some surprises will be in store. Tims tales of vapor lock already have me jittery, since Im now running a 4-barrel Holley and will be traveling through the Rockies and the Cascades. I guess well see how it holds up. If you live in the Midwest or somewhere out on the Plains, please share your tips on cool sights, extreme weather, speed traps, and the like. My internet access is likely to be sporadic, but Ill do my best to keep you updated.

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Posted at 9:15 pm in Road Trips

Comments

Anonymous
Jul 20, 2007 at 6:25 pm

insane. One wiff of chemistry, pull over and shut car off. Check the left front and back of cyl head often.See any strange colors stand back have it hauled off get on a bus or a plane and put that car into the silent abyss forever, where it should have stayed. Don’t you have a mechanic friend with good advice? I can’t help but wonder an “anti” in good judgement. That car is in my top ten deadliest jackasses non-repairable of aLL of AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY. Your crazy for attempting it. I guess cardomain is here to promote all good and evil. I wish I didn’t find this blog.Good luck to you, and truly take heed to my advice. It is a physics monster just by existing. Snip an egr system out of a 25 year old subaru and drive drive drive if you want a real safe trip back and forth across the continent infinitely with a 1.8 liter masterpiece.I get the hee bee gee bees just looking at that satanic killer called a ford escort.

Calichevylover
Jul 19, 2007 at 12:37 pm

BEST of luck to you Jen

Calichevylover
Jul 19, 2007 at 12:36 pm

hey maybe in a few years when im in college cardomain can hook me up w/ an internship:) i’ll make the long drive too. plus i’d be able to visit old friends from when i used to live near the Puguet sound

Sean C.
Jul 18, 2007 at 3:11 pm

Have a fun, safe drive! Enjoy Montana!

Bobby Serlet
Jul 18, 2007 at 3:05 am

Have a great trip, if you run through nebraska try and make a stop at the Speedway Motorsports Museum, totally kick ass if you into old cars, lot’s of neet one of kind racing engines and things, it’s in Lincoln Nebraska. Not much going across nebraska though. anyways have a good time, drive safe.

Kmbr
Jul 17, 2007 at 11:37 pm

be safe!! Good Luck!! I’ll be making that same journey in late August (only starting in Ky, not Ny!)

Kansas Coyote
Jul 17, 2007 at 9:52 pm

make that elevation in Kansas is a lot higher than the East Coast already.

Kansas Coyote
Jul 17, 2007 at 9:51 pm

What’s your intended route? (I never had a problem with Vapor lock in Colorado in my 1968 -but elevation is a lot higher here than in NYC – Stop in to an old school garage -If you go through Kansas, I can give you 2-3 -and have them set your carb) There’s plenty of cool places, but it’s all going to depend on how you get there.

kap0w
Jul 17, 2007 at 9:25 pm

See you when you get here!

John Coyle
Jul 17, 2007 at 12:01 am

Stay safe Jen, and have a good time!