{"id":5169,"date":"2023-01-20T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:06:41","slug":"the-allure-of-the-road-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/the-allure-of-the-road-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Allure Of The Road – Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Allure<\/b>: The quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.<\/span><\/p>\n

Road<\/b>: A wide way leading from one place to another.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Hi All \u2013 Larry Beckner here. For those who don\u2019t know me, my wife Amy & I have been active part-time RVers since mid-1998 when we bought our first motorhome. I\u2019ll cover our RV ownership history in a future post, but for now let\u2019s talk about the allure of the road!<\/span><\/p>\n

For me it started early. I was born in San Antonio, Texas. My father had an interesting job with a company called Western Good Roads Service Company, which was involved in the placement of advertising signs on roads and highways. My dad\u2019s primary role was to travel around Texas and parts of Louisiana looking for viable locations to erect signs, followed by preliminary discussions with the relevant landowners.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I started elementary school and during summer vacations thereafter, I was able to accompany my dad on some of those trips. San Antonio was a smaller city in those days, so we didn\u2019t have to go very far to be \u201cout in the country.\u201d For me it was big-time adventure \u2013 the open road ahead, looking forward to what might be around the next curve, over the next hill, or behind the fence surrounding a farmer\u2019s or rancher\u2019s property.<\/span><\/p>\n

These trips were also the genesis of my enduring fascination with motor vehicles in all their various forms. My dad had a very cool black Plymouth Coupe, similar to the one in the following photo:<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-Plymouth-exterior.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”National Indoor RV Centers blog Allure Of The Road-01 ” title_text=”NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-Plymouth-exterior” show_in_lightbox=”on” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Like many cars back then, the Plymouth had a three-speed manual transmission with a column mounted shifter. And my dominant memory is that it had a speedometer that went all the way up to one hundred miles per hour. I actually got to see that speedometer touch 100 MPH one time (with my mother driving!), but that\u2019s a story for another day.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-Plymouth-interior.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”National Indoor RV Centers blog Allure Of The Road-02″ title_text=”NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-Plymouth-interior” show_in_lightbox=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Another major reason for my fascination with motor vehicles was that my dad was friends with a man named Bob Hoffman who ran an auto repair business in downtown San Antonio. After working on customer cars all day in his shop, Bob would build race cars at night and on the weekends. Bob had driven race cars in his younger days, but got banged up sufficiently to shift his focus to building them.<\/span><\/p>\n

My dad liked racing and often took me to the Saturday night events at our local track, where Bob and his driver competed. I was hooked and have been a racing fan (and occasional competitor) ever since. So for me, the allure of the road includes not just back roads and highways but race tracks and drag strips as well. Here\u2019s a photo from 2007, taken at the legendary Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, California when I was enrolled in Frank Hawley\u2019s two-day drag racing class to obtain a National Hot Rod Association competition license. (Yes, I realize my hair was SLIGHTLY darker at that time, but it was 15 years ago so cut me some slack…)<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-track.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”National Indoor RV Centers blog Allure Of The Road-03″ title_text=”NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-track” show_in_lightbox=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

My first car was a 1955 Chevy, similar to the one in the following photo, except the only white on mine was the roof. I bought it from a guy who had swapped the original 265 cubic inch engine for a 327 cubic inch Corvette engine. Paid him $600 for the car, put $2,000 or so into it over the following year, then sold it back to the same guy for $650 when I got a non-optional invitation from the government to become part of the U.S. Army. Yes, it was a very good lesson in how to NOT make money spiffing up cars.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-1955-Chevy.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”National Indoor RV Centers blog Allure Of The Road-04″ title_text=”NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-1955-Chevy” show_in_lightbox=”on” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Another good lesson I learned with that car was to plan a long trip before making one. After\u00a0receiving my draft notice, I decided to make a trip from southern California to San Antonio,\u00a0Texas to visit my mother \u2013 you know, just in case being in the Army cut my life a bit shorter\u00a0than I had in mind. Left southern California early one morning and made it to El Paso. Figured I\u00a0was close to San Antonio so I might as well stop, enjoy a nice meal, and get a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n

Slept in a bit the next morning, had a breakfast fit for a king, filled the car up with gas and hit\u00a0the road. Not far out of El Paso I saw a sign saying, \u201cSan Antonio \u2013 565 Miles.\u201d My reaction was\u00a0along the lines of \u201cNo way that can be right!\u201d About 30 miles later I saw another sign saying\u00a0\u201cSan Antonio \u2013 535 Miles.\u201d Did some mental math on how long that was going to take at 65\u00a0MPH and promptly applied more pressure to the gas pedal. Yep, Texas is a BIG state!<\/p>\n

After completing Basic Training at the not-especially blissful Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas the Army\u00a0assigned me to a data center in Atlanta, Georgia. Apparently some aptitude tests the Army\u00a0administered during Basic Training indicated I was suited for computer programming. When I\u00a0reported for duty at Fort McPherson in Atlanta the officer in charge of the data center looked at\u00a0my paperwork and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know why they sent you here – we don\u2019t need any more\u00a0programmers.\u201d My response was, \u201cWell, that\u2019s good because I don\u2019t know anything about\u00a0programming.\u201d He took mercy on me and said he\u2019d put me to work doing something or\u00a0another.<\/p>\n

I ended up sharing an apartment with two fellow soldiers, one of whom had a sixty-something\u00a0Dodge similar to the one in the following photo, though considerably less pristine:<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-60s-Dodge.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”National Indoor RV Centers blog Allure Of The Road-05″ title_text=”NIRVC-blog-allure-of-the-road-60s-Dodge” show_in_lightbox=”on” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

It was big, it was ugly, and it gulped gas, but we had our share of fun exploring the highways and byways of Georgia and Tennessee in that car. The southeast is very different from Texas and California and I found it fascinating, especially the backroads.<\/span><\/p>\n

In May 1967, we took the Dodge to Indiana (the hometown of my roommate Terry) to attend the Indianapolis 500. Got to see all of 18 laps before it started raining. The race was rescheduled for the next day, but we were on short-term passes and had to get back to Atlanta for duty. Seems like we convinced ourselves it was fun anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks, that\u2019s probably enough for one post. Stay tuned for more \u201cAllure of the Road\u201d stories in our next installment!<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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