Bottom Gear Road Trip Challenge Idea

"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii) 05/31/2016 at 22:24 • Filed to: None

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You find yourself in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with $2,000 and a need to find the best barbecue outside of Texas. Why exclude Texas? Well maybe it’s due to the outstanding warrants one accrues when setting naked hula hoop records on the Capitol steps or just that with a hypothetical budget of $2,000 this trip will be taxing enough on your poor jalopy.

Route: up the coast to eastern NC, across the state and through the smoky mountains. continue on through Tennessee, across the ol Mississippi and to the ozarks. There you’ll take a turn north and go to your final destination, Kansas City.

Car restrictions-(you didn’t think it’d be that easy did you? It’s like you haven’t even seen this entirely fictional show before)

Must be a convertible. No targas, no t tops.

For sale in the coastal South Carolina region.

NO MIATAS.

Your air conditioning will be disconnected. You will be driving in the summer and you will suffer. Your suffering will bring great ratings to this fictional show and the producer(me) will profit immensely. Also being in a climate controlled cocoon defeats the purpose of forcing you into these beaten husks of American Freedom(tm).

Choices will be graded. Below budget is good, brave choices are better.

NO MIATAS.

Because the back up car is a Miata. A stanced rusty Miata with a broken exhaust.

Pick well!

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I’d watch this challenge. Give me Top Gear spinoff plz.

Nibby > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:28

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Miata.

Xyl0c41n3 > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:28

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Stopped at “best barbecue outside of Texas.”

There’s literally no such thing.

Does not compute.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:34

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I’ll just stop off in Alabama, thanks. Also, coastal SC is referred to as the Low Country. http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5598012355…

CB > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:34

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Saab 900. Remaining money goes to sunblock. Also, fuck your rules, west coast best coast.

mazda616 > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:38

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My hometown, that I still live in, calls itself the “Barbecue Capital of the World.” We have a Barbecue Festival each year and such. Old Hickory Bar-B-Q is amazing and my family frequents it a lot. I guess I’d start in South Carolina and drive home. :)

This “Solaro” should get me back to Kentucky.

interstate366, now In The Industry > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:39

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I’ll just stop in NC on my way back home to VA, thanks.

LongbowMkII > Xyl0c41n3 05/31/2016 at 22:42

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Well you missed the nude hula hooping then.

Your loss.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:43

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Eh close enough, and I’ll film a whacky scene with me cutting the roof off with an angle grinder.

Frenchlicker > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:48

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I’m torn between this

http://myrtlebeach.craigslist.org/cto/5604769957…

And this

http://columbia.craigslist.org/cto/5586356741…

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 22:52

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Hey. Alabama is still a state and we have some damn good barbeque. And if you don’t believe it, come on down.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Frenchlicker 05/31/2016 at 22:53

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Just being pedantic, that’s not the Low Country(Columbia), that’s the Midlands(I live here). But, there are so many of those little Crapris around here. That makes at least 5 that I know of now.

Frenchlicker > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/31/2016 at 22:54

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I went to the Myrtle Beach Craigslist so everything is automatically fair game in my opinion

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Frenchlicker 05/31/2016 at 22:56

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Fair enough. There was a turbo one on the Columbia CL a few months ago, for $500. I kind of wanted it.

LongbowMkII > Frenchlicker 05/31/2016 at 23:08

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Good choices.

Frenchlicker > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/31/2016 at 23:09

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I saw a red one for $500. However it said it may need a transmission. So I DQ’ed it.

Frenchlicker > LongbowMkII 05/31/2016 at 23:10

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That LeBaron is mi t, I would probably end up choosing it to be honest.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Frenchlicker 05/31/2016 at 23:12

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This one was..... well it was a bunch of colors, but the seller was honest about it looking like crap, but said it ran and drove well.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 05/31/2016 at 23:18

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Yeah, Big Bob Gibson’s, Dreamland, Archibald’s, Red Brick(?), etc, are all pretty well regarded in the BBQ world. In fact, there are better places than that, just not commercialized. When it comes to pork, I’ve yet to find a better state for it. I’ll give Texas beef, though.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/31/2016 at 23:23

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This longbow guy has no idea what he’s doing in planning a road trip for BBQ

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 05/31/2016 at 23:25

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Starting in SC is the first problem. Driving across SC is boring as shit. ESPECIALLY FROM THE LOW COUNTRY. Source: do it all the time for work.

V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches > Xyl0c41n3 05/31/2016 at 23:31

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Dusty Ventures > Xyl0c41n3 06/01/2016 at 00:11

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I read “best barbecue outside of Texas” as “the second best barbecue in the country because we all know Texas has a lock on #1.” Surely you can get down with that

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Xyl0c41n3 06/01/2016 at 00:16

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Lol Texans and their sweeping delusions of grandeur. Call me when you have some soul in your barbecue.

#MemphisisBBQ

Xyl0c41n3 > Dusty Ventures 06/01/2016 at 01:26

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I knew there was a reason I liked you.

Yes. I can get down with that.

Stapleface > LongbowMkII 06/01/2016 at 06:49

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I’m taking the cheap way out and going with this. The extra money can be used to fix up/jerry-rig stuff together so that I can complete the journey.

https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/5580663419…

LongbowMkII > Stapleface 06/01/2016 at 07:48

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That's the spirit!

CaptDale - is secretly British > LongbowMkII 06/01/2016 at 18:47

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I would get this lovely 72 Fiat 850 Spyder . They are asking $1500. I am sure $1000 would take it. If I am going to break down on the side of the road, I want to do it in style.

I used the Near by CL algorithm to find this bad boy

LongbowMkII > CaptDale - is secretly British 06/01/2016 at 19:42

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I like the idea but Bristol/Johnson City/Kingston isn’t even close to the coast.

However I would allow someone on the production crew to purchase the vehicle and resell it in South Carolina to keep up appearances. Mostly because this is possibly the most masochistic choice imaginable.

Also I assume it's a scam. Because damn that's cheap.

CaptDale - is secretly British > LongbowMkII 06/01/2016 at 20:38

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Yeah, I’d be wary of it too, but I am glad we can get it to work on technicalities. I am bit into making things hard on myself.

daender > LongbowMkII 06/01/2016 at 20:56

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I’ll just take that 1500$ and use it for more NB2 Miata upgrades, hello JDM intake and MegaSquirt~!

Picture related: my Miata autocrossing at Myrtle Beach’s now-abandoned Freestyle Music Park about two months ago.

Seriously, I’d stay the HELL away from MB cars, all that NACL-exposure from the breeze hasn’t done wonders...

...Fuck it, let’s go down in a blaze of Lee Iacocca K-Car glory for 1250$.

Backup plan: ‘73 Mercedes-Benz 450SL in unknown “needs lots of work” condition for 800$ . Spend that remaining few hundred on welding a bunch of scrap steel to brace the rusty chassis and pray the engine doesn’t grenade itself..

daender > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 06/01/2016 at 20:58

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This, I have never seen so many copies of that weird Ford/Mercury FWD convertible in my life since I started living in SC.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > daender 06/01/2016 at 21:11

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Shitboxes in general it seems. The mid-80's Chevy Nova is popular in the poorer areas of the Low Country. There are also a few old Japanese parts yard hidden around the place.