Get a ton of people together. Strand them somewhere stupid. Let them each buy a car for no more than $1,000. Make them drive it somewhere less stupid. Hilarity ensues.
If you've been watching Top Gear recently, this is probably pretty familiar. The stupid place was Miami, and the less stupid place was New Orleans. And the ton of people were three Brits. But you get my point.
In any event, it occured to me while I was watching this that I've had this idea for years. Of course, the last time I thought about it, the $1,000 was only $500, and it was from Albuquerque to New York—but since you can't find dick for $500 anymore and I don't know anyone in New York, I figured $1,000 and Albuquerque to Seattle would be more entertaining.
So is there any interest in doing something like this? Anyone?
You buying?
Not for everyone. I expect total cost per person would be around $2,000 including flights, the car, gas, and tomfoolery.
I did that drive last week, except we bypassed New Orleans and went to Houston, and then back to Albuquerque.
Were you driving a flamboyantly-painted POS American car, and was it pelted by stones thrown by angry rednecks?
Yeah, this begs the question: Are the cars required to be "flamboyantly-painted?" Also, you can do pairs of two, to offset costs. In other words, two people per crap-mobile. Sounds very intriquing either way...
I suppose the painting is as optional as the person holding the spray can deems it to be.
And I was originally thinking pairs, although it doesn't come out at all in the wording. It helps offset the costs and the likely tedium of driving so far.
Stay tunned for the great Las Cruces to Detroit "drive it somewhere." Who will triumph, Rotsaert or the unreliability machine? Comming to road side attractions and truck stops May 2007.
... or maybe we should just drive to where ever this is going to happen: http://www.arielatomexperience.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=159&Itemid=58
See, Albuquerque to Seattle at least involves lots of entertaining cities: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and (of course) Seattle.
What's between Cruces and Detroit?
So far, i want to see st luis, nashville, and indianapolis(indy 500). I'm planing on having my eyes closed and driving as fast as possible through texas.
Nashville is hotness. Dunno about Indianapolis.
But St. Louis is the biggest hell-hole I've ever been in. Yeuch!
Rock and roll!
I enjoyed St. Louis - Kindof. Went to a couple of decent resturaunts at least. Anyway, if this is gonna be done, it should be done Top Gear style. Which means, all participants must spend no more than $1000 (or some other interesting amount) on their vehicle. There will be 3 to 4 challenges along the way, which will have points awarded or taken away. The trick will be finding someone familiar enough with Top Gear to develop the challenges, and who is also someone who would not be participating.
Two things. 1) I already have my car pickd out if this happens, down the street they are selling a VW Scirocco 16V (Dan, feel free to purchase this one from me at the end of the trip as well) and 2) the US Grand Prix is in July, and people are more than welcome to stay at mi casa for it.
Hey, that's cheating. You don't get to pick something out a priori!
Fine, I wont pick a car because I know the actual population for a statistics problem. That and I went by and someone actually bought the thing.