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Soccer Fan Drives from San Francisco to Brazil for 2014 World Cup
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| Wednesday, Jun 11, 2014
Posted on 06/11/2014 2:11:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Now to just sell Chevy the Superbowl commercial rights.
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:14:45 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: nickcarraway
My quick math says at least $2,000 in gas. I’m thinking a round trip ticket would have been less expensive.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:16:17 PM PDT
by
sofaman
(An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. Thomas Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:16:38 PM PDT
by
justlurking
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To: justlurking
To: justlurking
I am wondering how he got through Panama. The road just ends in the jungle, before it gets to the Colombian border:
Exactly my thoughts. Did someone build a road through the Darien gap?
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:19:01 PM PDT
by
GOPmember
To: nickcarraway
Very cool. Hope he writes a long article about it. Had to be an interesting trip.
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:20:56 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: justlurking
Yeah, the Darien Gap was the first problem I had with the story. Then, of course, he has to drive back.
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:23:14 PM PDT
by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
To: DesertRhino
Hope he writes a long article about it. Hooray for soccer fags with blogs.
To: nickcarraway
That’s the 235 “stovebolt 6” for you. That engine was in regular production from 1929 to 1963, with an updated version still being produced into the ‘90s. Inline six, usually a single barel carb, overhead valve. very smooth running. I’ve had 2 cars with it, a ‘69 nova and a ‘55 chevy 210 and neither left me walking. I’m not suprised at all that he made it to Brazil.
CC
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:36:22 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: humblegunner
Don’t think of it as a soccer thread, humble. Do what I did and think of it as a car thread.
CC
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:43:21 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: humblegunner
Im interested in the off road, and extreme remote area trek aspect of the travel,,, . Soccer, not so much.
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:44:47 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: justlurking
I don’t know how he got through Mexico, unless he bought back his wheels and tires at least a dozen times and paid off countless cops and whomever else.
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:44:54 PM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: nickcarraway
I hope he made a time compressed dash cam video.
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posted on
06/11/2014 2:50:41 PM PDT
by
posterchild
(It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
To: justlurking
A long while back Nissan started a series of commercials about a young couple that was going to drive their new Pathfinder from Los Angeles to Tierra del Fuego.
Almost as soon as the series started up it was cancelled.
My thinking at the time was that it would be a very dangerous proposition to drive through some parts of Mexico and Latin America for the average young couple, and no way was Nissan going to be responsible if some people actually tried to copy what their TV couple was planning on doing.
Hats off to this guy if he actually drove that far without being ambushed, bushwhacked, kidnapped, or killed.
To: taxcontrol
Im thinking a round trip ticket would have been less expensive.But much less fun.
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posted on
06/11/2014 3:02:25 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(When the truth finally dawns, it dawns in fire!)
To: Tax-chick
And infinitely more dangerous.
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posted on
06/11/2014 3:04:02 PM PDT
by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: kevao
Yes, that too ... but unless it’s a hoax, he did it and lived.
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posted on
06/11/2014 3:05:35 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(When the truth finally dawns, it dawns in fire!)
To: sofaman
An only in San Francisco truck...and driver
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posted on
06/11/2014 3:06:28 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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