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Oh Lord won’t you buy me…a Porsche?

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Drove it to Ouray for SAS10. Brought our son in his 80.

Very high ambients in Colorado today. Couldn’t run the AC, so I got to experience the magic of rolling the rear window down for cabin cooling.

This (330 miles) is the farthest I’ve driven it in a single day. @PabloCruise has driven it further (Moab, so 400 miles.)

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Drove it to Ouray for SAS10. Brought our son in his 80.

Very high ambients in Colorado today. Couldn’t run the AC, so I got to experience the magic of rolling the rear window down for cabin cooling.

This (330 miles) is the farthest I’ve driven it in a single day. @PabloCruise has driven it further (Moab, so 400 miles.)

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Some great looking bumpers on the 55 and the 80!
 
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Were you overheating when running the AC or was it ineffective because it couldn’t keep up to cool the cabin?

Well, the temptation is to make it go down the road as fast as possible, and that leads to heating while pulling the three passes. No AC helps some, as the radiator doesn’t see the heat gain from the condensor.

But 100+ ambients aren’t much fun.

Zero issues grand junction to ouray.
 
Just a toasty 106 degrees here in Grand Junction yesterday. Twelfth day in a row 100 degrees or more. I'd say your cooling system is working well.
Longest day in the Frankencruiser (now Bonnie) for us was 600+ miles from the Black Hills Pig Party to home. Credit that to the F150 captains chairs with recline and lumbar adjustment. And overdrive with the SBC 350 and Toyota 4 spd. AC would have been the frosting on the cake. Still. we did 50,000 miles in all western states except WA and OR during our twelve years of ownership.
Jon is upgrading the drivetrain and adding AC on Bonnie for perhaps the ultimate road tripper. Should be miles of smiles.
 
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