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Join Garry Sowerby, a four-time Guinness World Record holder for long-distance driving, on his tales of motoring mania. Follow his accounts of 30 years of global road adventures: out-driving the clock on a race around the world; narrowly escaping bandits' bullets in Kenya; and smuggling books behind the Iron Curtain. The master road tripper hasn't slowed down yet. This week: connecting with an old friend.
Perhaps she realized how tense it was making me, or maybe she was getting used to the new injector pump they bolted into the heart of her V8 Detroit Diesel before she left Los Angeles, Calif., for our New Hampshire rendezvous. Yes, Lucy Panzer, the 1984 GMC Suburban, in which college crony Ken Langley and I finessed our way through a lifetime of dicey situations between South Africa and North Cape, Norway, still had the goods. Even after four years of hanging around Beverly Hills' prestigious Petersen Automotive Museum she was still unrefined and noisy with craggy road manners. But for her size, she handled surprisingly well.I had slipped into a time warp. All those toggle switches. The forest of antennae on the roof. The smell in there, like crawling into a favourite old travel trunk. Yellowed press kits featuring fresh-faced Ken and I posed in front of Mount Kilimanjaro with "NO FEAR" written all over our faces. That favourite John Prine tape hanging out of the tape deck, Springsteen's Born to Run in the glove box with the sticky latch. Under the seat, the rock we used to prop up the tire jack on a rutted road in Kenya's Kasuit Desert after bandits shot out a rear tire. I love that old truck.See the full content of this document
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Lucy Panzer (and the Fortune Teller)
Join Garry Sowerby, a four-time Guinness World Record holder for long-distance driving, on his tales of motoring mania. Follow his accounts of 30 years of global road adventures: out-driving the clock on a race around the world; narrowly escaping ba...
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