# Tucker's Tales From The Highway W/Pictures! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873 "2004-10-24T08:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/21 "2004-10-24T19:43:45Z")
As side note, it might be useful to post the deductibility question re your purchase and intended use, in GQ as a separate question. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/22 "2004-10-24T20:00:23Z")
I’ll do that, thanks for the suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/23 "2004-10-24T23:16:14Z")
Great thread, love the car. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/24 "2004-10-25T04:06:32Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > So _that’s_ what you look like. > > YUM! 😉 > > You’re cat’s cute too. Thanks. I bet your’s is too!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/25 "2004-10-25T05:43:51Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I bet your’s is too!😉 :rolleyes: ::groan::, is this how doper couples start? 😃 How long will it take to restore the car? I can’t wait to see it. There are few cars worse than an old clunker like that that barely runs and looks like crap, and there are few cars better than a sweet ride like that done right. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/26 "2004-10-25T18:47:57Z")
Great job, **Tuckerfan**! I love everything about road trips, but I don’t get to do them enough myself. ☹ So, I like to live vicariously (sp?) through others and I’m a sucker for a good road trip story with pictures. You made even the typical mundanity of the road trip interesting. Although I’ll pass, next time, on pictures of urinals, thank you very much! Kudos! ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/27 "2004-10-25T19:28:14Z")
Dangit! Wish I had known you were coming out here. I could have even checked out the car in advance for you. The Walyworld you got all your car supplies from is all of four minutes from my house! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/28 "2004-10-25T19:46:54Z")
And, of course, then I could have shown you what a really big car looks like: [http://www.100megsfree4.com/cadillac/cad1960/1968/eldo68d.jpg](http://www.100megsfree4.com/cadillac/cad1960/1968/eldo68d.jpg) (not mine, but mine looks the same). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/29 "2004-10-25T20:39:24Z")
I used to have a '63 Newport. My best buddy had a 72. His was bigger than mine. He called it “The Sponge”, because it was big, yellow, dripped a lot, and sucked up all his money. It would appear that there is a wide swath of Kansas that is now bugless thanks to your windshield. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/30 "2004-10-26T00:10:12Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > :rolleyes: ::groan::, is this how doper couples start? > > 😃 > > How long will it take to restore the car? I can’t wait to see it. There are few cars worse than an old clunker like that that barely runs and looks like crap, and there are few cars better than a sweet ride like that done right. Actually, **hillbilly** ’s married, so… I’m hoping to have it done within three years, but it all depends upon my cashflow situation. Of course, I doubt that I’ll ever really be done with the car, as I intend to make a bunch of improvements to the car (Car nuts, don’t panic! There’s nothing I hate worse than someone who takes a nice old car and hacks it up so that it can’t be easily restored to factory condition. Everything I do will be easily correctable by someone wishing to return the car to stock. Admittedly, some holes will have to be drilled in the body, but they’ll be patchable in a few moments with a welder. I hope, though, after I’m gone that the car winds up in a museum, or at least in the hands of a collector who respects the changes I’ve made or returns the vehicle to stock.) and no doubt each one will inspire me to make others. **Necros** , oh yeah? You think so, huh? Well, [check out the specs](http://www.degeneratepress.com/newport/#Numbers) and get back to me on that. 😛 **NurseCarmen** , what the windshield didn’t get, probably got gassed by the oil spray. “The Sponge,” I like that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873/31 "2004-10-26T16:51:53Z")
Weight: Newport, ~4200. Eldo, 4500+ Length: Newport, 224", Eldo, 221", so you got me there. So you’re bigger, I’m heaver. But may car moves a little bit, too. Newport, 383CID, 255 HP Eldo, 472CID, 325 HP, 525 TQ Let’s call it a draw. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckers-tales-from-the-highway-w-pictures/270873.md?page=1)