@Greg54 posted:
Hey, guys.
As a newbie to this madness, I must say I absolutely love driving my Speedster! I have other cool classic sports cars to drive (‘87 911 Targa and ‘79 Alfa Spider) but I love driving this Speedster the most right now! I’ve had it a month and a half and have already put 800 miles on it just commuting 6 miles to my office on days when rain was not in the forecast.
I'm curious. How many of you put significant miles on these things? I’d love to take it 360 miles to FL but I’m afraid of getting caught in rain.
Jack Crosby or Jim Ignacio probably hold the " highest mileage" records anywhere on the list but my Wife and I likely have the record for long distance trips. I'd regularly go from Ottawa, Canada to Key West, Florida up to the Carlisle meet and back home.
The craziest thing we did ( my Wife enjoys travelling in a Speedster ) was to ship the car from upstate NY to Sacramento, Ca. and drove down the PCH to Malibu up thru Victorville to Vegas, over past the Dam and Grand Canyon, East on route 66 over to Kingman, Az to backtrack into Oatman to see the donkeys, got the standard pic taken "standin' on the corner" Winslow, Az then East to Gallup, NM then up to Cortez, over thru Durango to see a friend in Taos, then down to Albuquerque then East again thru Tucumcari, Amarillo, Oklahoma City and on East to hook up with the gang in Carlisle, Pa then on up back home to Ottawa, Canada.
Drove our Roadster from Vancouver, BC to Ottawa in October a few years back and encountered snow and ice in BC hills then freezing temps across the prairies and it finally warmed up in Ontario.
Earlier in life we bought our Speedster in Boise, Id and drove it East to upstate NY and up to home in Ottawa. $6,500 Speedster with a bone stock 1600 cc VW engine. Never had so much fun.