Trip report

[skikir]

Well, we took my TR6 on a 600 mile road trip last week for our 20th wedding aniversery. I wish I had a witty "oh my God!" saga of trial and tribulations but I don't. In fact, the trip was so trouble free except for one problem I was wondering if I had taken the Jeep and just imagined I was driving the TR. The trip left Eugene, Oregon through Portland to Hood River and on to Goldendale, Washington and almost back to Hood River before filling up with 300 miles on the clock. Which is 30.7 MPG but with calculating off 8% for smaller tires still came out at 28.5mpg. Of course it was mostly Intersate traveling and going through the Columbia River Gorge (the great wind tunnel of the Pacific Northwest making it a wind surfing mecca) I probably had a 30MPH tail wind for 50 miles. While in Hood River I did about 120 miles mostly city driving in three days and got in the low 20s MPG. On the trip home back to Eugene we went through eastern Oregon past Mount Hood, accross the Warmsprings Indian Reservation, through Sisters to Eugene. This leg was fun. I went from big river valley to alpine passes to high plateau destert and back through high passes. I was zooming up 4 and 5 thousand foot passes passing cars with ease. I cruized through the sage brush with a smile. While going through the reservation I had visions of my TR sitting in the sage brush with a broken wheel, top shredded and flapping in the wind with an arrow stuck in the trunk like an abbandoned old western covered wagon. When I refilled at Sisters with 185 miles on the clock I put in 5.8 gallons which worked out to a corrected millage of 29.34! On the whole trip it never skipped a beat, and ONLY used 2qts of oil. The only problem I have is the exhaust system. I don't know if it's because the Falcon exhaust exiting from the center rear and the gasses being sucked in around the trunk or if I have a major exhaust leak. It is only a problem with the top up and fortunately I had the top down 90% on this trip.

 

[71tr]

Man, that sounds like a great trip. I know the area somewhat and can only imagine driving the TR thru there. Tell us; are you running original equipment or have you gone thru a rebuild?

 

[Stinky]

Sounds like my trip last year from Texas, to Maryland. I averaged about 28 mpg too. Naturally that was with the OverDrive on.
Kinda funny really,...we have 5 vehicles, and the TR gets the best gas mileage of them all,...and it sits in the garage most of the time while we use the guzzlers for daily drivers. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif