That isn't entirely true, it does have two cup holders on the tunnel. Seats are high back buckets out of a Dodge Stealth. They are vented leather and are comfy.

I would not want to drive ANY car 4000 miles in Florida. I would drive the Cobra at Sebring or Daytona Infield.

Remember, I had that car in an area hotter that where Sid lives. Just gotta wear a hat to protect the noggin skin. I used to think it was funny when I would go turn the key on and the temp gauge would already register. It starts at 125*.

at 125 I'm not going outside

It is a dry heat, like your oven.

well I won't crawl in there either.

It isn't pleasant. Interior temps for the cars if the windows are closed would get close to 200*.

When I moved out there the people would tell me it gets hot, but it is a dry heat. I always responded with the so is your oven statement. I will take the cold thank you. I can bundle up to keep warm. You can only take so much off legally.

so true!!!!!

I have been through hot parts of California and Arizona in July. When I returned from Monterey, back in 2014 I "got" to drive through real beauty spots of California like Boron, Bakersfield, and Needles. It was only 118 in Needles. I had been driving since Monterey. Many hours on the road so 100% full heat soak on the car.

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Beauty spots like Lost Hills in the photo above were only in the high 90s but it got hotter as I got closer to Needles. It actually got cooler in Arizona as I closed in to Kingman. The scenery was wonderful from the Kingman area back to Flagstaff. Flagstaff was nice and cool, but I continued to Gallup, NM. It was still nice the next morning when I just cruised on down I-40. New Mexico and the Texas panhandle all the way to home was in the 90s.

I stayed nice and cool.

All of that trip was cool compared to Savanna, GA in August. One day the heat index was 135. Yea, 135! The humidity was insane, and the temp was high 90s. It was 100+ all the way from OKC to Savannah, and back home.

The AC does a great job of keeping me cool. Now I have the upgraded evaporator blower so more air. I will be sure the AC is at prime tune up for Florida.

Further south in the Imperial Valley is where it is hot in CA. Well, Death Valley gives it a run for its money.

Flagstaff and Sedona are pretty decent weather wise and have a natural beauty.

Yea, I drove through some of that desert back in 2007 when I went to San Diego. As I was going down the mountain from Flagstaff toward Phoenix I noticed a large plume of smoke up ahead. As I got closer I saw a Highway Patrol officer had the interstate closed off, and was pointing to a little two lane road going west.

There was a 18 wheeler fuel tanker truck burning and it was sideways across the north bound lane but the fire department was fighting the fire from the south bound lane.

I had no choice but head west. It took me to some neat little towns getting ready for the 4th or July parades. I ended up on some wonderful mountain roads. I ended up going through your old haunts of El Centro and I was surprised to see the huge areas of farms and then into a real dessert on I-8 on to that long "hill" up the mountainside into San Diego. That trip was why I upgraded my AC system. I knew it was going to be brutal getting there. I did the full Griffiths upgrade in 2007, and it was the very best upgrade I have ever done on my 911. It made it a real all summer driver.

The drive back home was right through Phoenix and the "valley of the sun" and the AC struggled but it kept me cool in the 100+ July heat.

Brother used to go to Sedona on Holiday. Then they went to Destin FL a few years, then around Bolder CO. Hasn't really gone anywhere since he gets around by wheelchair.

The lady that lived directly behind my house (long time family friend) had a vacation home in Sedona. She passed just last week. She was 101 years old. Heard her two kids are fighting over the sizable inheritance. She had survived 3 wealthy husbands.

The 2007 trip to San Diego was back before I had a smart phone, and my GPS was a clunker Lowrance unit. I was driving alone with no Mrs Carrera to plan everything her way. I figured I could find a hotel in Flagstaff. I was wrong. I discovered the some large international bicycle thing was in town. No hotels had room. After calling several I asked the last one if there were places further south. There was some little area at the entrance to a big park. I found that number on the GPS and called. They were happy to have me.

It was fantastic. So many hotel in Flagstaff are next to the rail road or the airport and LOUD noises all night. This place was a mom and pop operated hotel. Surrounded by beautiful woods. I was assigned a room with a famous former guest, Buddy Hacket. Evidently some years before his car broke down in that area and he had to spend a few nights there while the car was fixed. It was yet another brush with greatness I have had in my travels.

The couple that runs it even sent me a post card with thanks for my stay.

Now it is easy with Booking.com on my cell phone to find a room.

When knee high to a grasshopper family drove to Orange CA from OKC over the 4th of July weekend. When we got to Flagstaff is was late. Since it was the 4th there was no rooms due to the big rodeo. No such thing as cell phones or GPS. BUT Dad had CB Radio. CBer's had a good sized parking lot they had set up lof trsvelers. There was a tent with food and drink and two police cars to make people feel safe enough to sleep in their cars. Dad slept a couple of hours, then we drove on thru to Orange.

CB was a big thing when we travelled whing I was a kid, KEH-4697. Learned our call letters before our phone number. Tried to tell my kindergarten teacher that they could get hold of Dad better with it than a phone.

When we travelled there weren't so many fast food places. When we stopped for a bathroom, or meal break we always went somewhere not too far from the highway that was a nice little cafe to meet some fellow CBers. They traded 3x5 calling cards. It had the call numbers and handle and the station they monitored in that area. It was kinda neat when you could get "skip" and talk to someone you met across the country.

Dad's car had a custom antenna he made that looked like a regular radio antenna on his 66 Chrysler 300. Dad always made it fun going it to the cafes where the other CBers were looking for someone to pull up in a car with a CB antenna on the roof or rear bumper. We would show up, go in, sit down, then he would go introduce himself.

My Dad's CB handle was the Rubber Duck. And that was long before that movie Convoy.

Remember once just after HS got a call on the phone and all the old man could say was Bald Eagle. Turned out is was an old CB friend of my Dad's that had had a stroke and all he could really say was his handle.

My father had a CB I had one for a bit in my Toyota 4x4

We had a CB for a while. I don't remember dad's CB handle.

Had a CB in my 77 Cutlass Salon. It was built into the dash radio. But by then the govment had lowered the allowed watts and made to where you didn't have to register. They Killed CB.

Put CB in my 4x4 Jimmy. The local 4x4 club, The Outlaws used them on 4x4 trips and stuff.

928 guys use Walkie Talkies for their tour drives. They go so fast it can get spread out pretty quickly and then it's difficult to stay in range.

I had a cab in my 914. I actually made a custom bracket for my 911 for a CB. I used it a few times on club tours like fall tour and spring tour. The club members would go to some off channel like 8 and chat. Cell phones killed it all.

When I bought my 1978 Ramcharger it had a CB in it but the first jump I went over we had a rapid unscheduled disassembly of said unit when it popped out of its frame so I never got to use it.

Had some fun tours in the GTS using the Walkies. Much better to have a driver and a walkie operator.

The year I got pulled over on the tour was the year I loaned my walkie and radar detector to the leader. Did not get a ticket. Probably the club cab truck full of wives going by with the cop at my window that kept him from ticketing me. They were hanging out the windows yelling "We love you Richard." Don't think they were sober.

Anyone want a cold? Free w/ free shipping. I might even toss in a small package of tissues. Unused, of course. :D

Good week4end.

No thanks on the cold thing. And always have a couple of those travel size tissue packs in my cars.

Dang it, thought it it was gonna warm up to the 40's, even got to the 70's, but now it's back in the 30's like it was still winter or something.