Me and Alyssa arrived in Reno to pick up a very used 1966 Nova hard top with a 283/350TRANS, the plane touching down on March 3rd/11PM West coast time, the owner was waiting for us at the airport and took us to his home a couple miles away, I checked out the car the only thing that caught my eye/ear is that the choke needed adjustment and it was idling really high at first "had to turn that down". So I gave him the cash (not like there was any other option since I bought one-way tickets). First stop Wal-Mart I buy a 5 gallon gas tank just incase the gas gauge isn't reading right ( don't want to get stranded in the desert), Next stop
gas station the gas was $2.23 that�s allot compared to the $1.50 back home at the time. The Nova only had a tape player so we get us some tapes (The best of Cream, HANK WILLIAMS JUNIOR, and BOB MARLEY). Now were ready for our night run through the Nevada desert traveling down the highway to Las Vegas the first hour is through the mountains leaving Reno the moon is full and you can see all the White Mountains peaks. We keep driving for about 5or6 hours then I decided to pull over and sleep, I pulled the car next to a Semi at the edge of a gas station she went to sleep in the back seat I fell over in the front, after about an hour and a half of "one eye open sleeping" I got up and continued to Las Vegas now the sky has a little light in it and you can see the mountains in the far off distance. By 8oclock we are arriving at the outskirts of Vegas the sun is bright the blue night has turned to red and yellow desert. We finally arrive at Alyssa's parent�s house in the Vegas suburbs and I pass out. The whole time I'm asleep I still hear the vibrating sound of the unbalanced drive shaft and a collage of mountains and desert night.
"Thank god the car ran strong all-night"
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I finally get up around 3pm Alyssa's parents had made something to eat, After eating I make my way out to the car, still need to adjust that choke decided it would be a good time to perform a full "driveway and around the block diagnostic check" Everything checked out fine its getting dark now so we head over the Flamingo to check in. We get some stairs from people as we pull up to the front of the Hotel some middle aged men are stairing with a thumbs up type of grin, there probably remembering when they or there dad had one. Then theres the nay sayers looking at it as a piece of jallopy kind of shaking there heads hell what do they know about cars, I make my way to the front to drop off Alyssa with the luggage the bell hop makes a guess of what it is GTO, Thats got to me the most common guess then there is Chevelle. I pull off and make my way up the parking garage and find me a tight squeeze on the second floor close to the door. We have a good view of the Strip and we're located across the street from the Billagio. We go down stairs and switch off playing Black Jack and Craps for. Lost a hundred but Alyssa won a hundred so were even she buys us some milk and Crosants to go snack on
