Cannonball in a Rental Mustang!
Jun 19, 2020, 12:32 pm
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Cannonball in a Rental Mustang!
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a32917037/a-man-drove-solo-across-america-in-25-hours-55-minutes-in-a-rental-mustang/ (CW: language)
A man named Fred Ashmore rented a Mustang GT (see photo below), took out the passenger seat, added some fuel tanks, and drove across the country in under 26 hours.
Avis is blurred out, but it's clearly an Avis/Budget booth.
-J.
A man named Fred Ashmore rented a Mustang GT (see photo below), took out the passenger seat, added some fuel tanks, and drove across the country in under 26 hours.
One man, one car, a whole lot of gasoline, and an alleged 25-hour, 55-minute elapsed time. That’s an average speed of nearly 108 miles per hour.
Avis is blurred out, but it's clearly an Avis/Budget booth.
-J.
Jul 28, 2020, 12:09 am
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Why should there be? Removal of the seats is totally reversible. I have removed the back seat in a similar car once so my dog could fit in the back which it didn't because the back seat was too deeply countoured with a huge center console, and whenever I need to transport stuff over great distances in a van I rent a passenger model with seats (because these, unlike cargo models, are available with unlimited mileage) that then are removed. This usually requires some disassembly, but a nothing that can't be done with a screwdriver and/or a socket wrench. Staff at Avis has even offered to store them for me.
The Cannonball guy didn't do a one-way rental but went straight back home in that Mustang (presumably at more law-abiding speeds), removed the extra fuel tanks, reinstalled the seats and returned the vehicle to where he got it from.
Apart from the odometer showing the miles and some 'interesting' stats (120 mph average speed, haha...) on the computer, nobody would know the car has been converted into a rolling gasoline depot after the fact.
The Cannonball guy didn't do a one-way rental but went straight back home in that Mustang (presumably at more law-abiding speeds), removed the extra fuel tanks, reinstalled the seats and returned the vehicle to where he got it from.
Apart from the odometer showing the miles and some 'interesting' stats (120 mph average speed, haha...) on the computer, nobody would know the car has been converted into a rolling gasoline depot after the fact.
Jul 28, 2020, 12:59 pm
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I'm not sure if it was a round-trip or a one-way (I am not sure if he got it at OKC or BOS), but I do know it ended at OKC, at which time the car was put up for sale, and he actually bought it.
-J.
-J.