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Even though you start out with the best intentions and well-laid plans, you someday take a road trip that turns bad. Mine usually have involved vehicles that never made it to our destination: the VW Bus whose engine I lovingly rebuilt in my kitchen threw a rod on the highway headed to Montreal (sold to the mechanic nearest the exit ramp), the two-stroke Saab wagon I rebuilt entirely in Roger Harris’ yard fell apart on our way to Paul Gibson’s repair shop (never made it out of there), and the old blue Dodge wagon called “Kronkite” made it down the old woods road but couldn’t get us out (probably still there).

Here are some of your winning road trip horror stories.

—Michael E.C. Gery

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