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Driving Like Crazy Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be - With an Oil Well in Every Backyard a Cadillac of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn Author: P. J. O'Rourke Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. O’Rourke’s love for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in America. O’Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world’s most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-doo...  more »r Buick sedan to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 to a trek through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck. For longtime fans of the celebrated humorist, the collection features a host of O’Rourke’s classic pieces on driving, including “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink,â€� about the potential misdeeds one might perform in the front (and back) seat of an automobile; “The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club,â€� which chronicles a seven-hundred-mile weekend trip through Michigan and Indiana that O’Rourke took on a Harley Davidson alongside Car & Driver publisher David E. Davis, Jr.; his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on NASCAR and its peculiar culture, recorded during an alcohol-fueled weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977; and an hilarious account of a trek from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover’s new Discovery Trek.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9780802144799 ISBN-10: 0802144799 Publication Date: 5/11/2010 Pages: 288 Rating: Currently 0/5 Stars.   ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating Publisher: Grove Press Book Type: Paperback Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD Members Wishing: 0 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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