Day 6/7: Kingman to Flagstaff

Day 6:


Woke up after a surprisingly good nights sleep, even with freight trains roaring by every 30 minutes. We packed up camp and headed back to the 66 to try and make our way to Flagstaff. This part of the 66 was great, compared to California's stretch. The California part is incredibly bumpy and unmaintained, I'm ashamed that they don't care more about preserving its history and keeping it alive! We saw all kinds of old cars, and soon upon arriving at a neat old general store full of old rusty clunkers, we found that the carb was again overheating and boiling, so we needed to make some more improvements. Well this place was full of old rusty cars and all kinds of rusty junk, so we figured there had to be something good around there that we could fashion a heat shield out of. Well sure enough we found an old rusty coffee can, cut it up with the tin-snips, and baling wired it to the carb, in hopes of blocking some of the heat from the exhaust manifold. Dear Henry Ford, why did you have to put the carb  and fuel line so close to an exhaust manifold?? Well the tin, mixed with the fuel line wrapped in insulation, and having the hood open, pretty much solved our overheating problems! We trucked on down the road after a bit of a stop, and made our way up the mountain to flagstaff, which is above 7,000ft! Well this old car sure made it up those grades, it just found that sweet spot and lugged up the mountains with nothing but the old purr of the engine, and the light hiss of the carburetor sucking in air.


Day 7:


We spent the whole day in Flagstaff to check on Lane's truck, and just to get a good days rest from driving. I saw a Model A parked on the street next to the park we were going to hang out at, and decided to park behind it to see if I would meet the owner. Sure enough, a fella named George came out, excited to see the car and told me how I passed him by in traffic the day before and he tried to catch up to me to get a better look at the car. Well now he got to look at it all he wanted to! George was a great guy and we ended up talkin about old cars for hours, and he even had us over for homemade pizza, what a treat!