Pics of my Luxury Toyota

So sexy it needs a capital s

Hella

Your duck is so Sexy Irvin, and I think the feeling is mutual....

Yeah lol, no one has EVER driven my car, except you!

It still makes that squealing noise, but I realized that it only starts at exactly 40 mph lol

No

You'll notice I left cbass behind

Owned

So I've been doing a lot of work to the car after my 8,300 mile roadtrip around the country, but I figure I should post some pics from the trip first lol. I've got almost 280 pics of just the car lol, I'll have to narrow that down.

Here are the first round of pics, taken at 2 rest stops in west Maryland & West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains on my first day of the trip. Car is still relatively clean lol.

Dude you're like next door compared to where I went lol, I was meeting up with people I never met before, plus I didn't go north, ain't nothin up there for me.

lol. Those pics were just the first half of the first day lol.
Added: May 27, 2014 12:27 AM

Yeah a Bread Job lol... I was hungry and that bread was better than nothing

Hey I tried it, just like we agreed!

At Milky's house!






The next day, traveled through a lot of flat farmlands, ended up in the smack middle of Kansas (took back roads)










I took this pic just to show that the air intake temperature matches the ambient outside air temperature.... no weird piping needed to get the cold air!

Well the next (3rd) day was very stressful. I was still on the backroads through Kansas and then Nebraska, when I learned firsthand what a dust storm is.

The wind was up to 50-60 MPH, directly perpendicular to the car. Rocks, dirt, tumbleweed were all flying across the road (and into the car) like it was nothing. You could just hear the car being sandblasted. I had not prepared for this lol.

You can see the brown "clouds" before you get to them

Approaching Dust Storm by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Then suddenly, you're going 65 MPH and you enter the cloud of dust, and there is ZERO visibility. You're afraid to keep going and hit something, but you can't stop, or else you'll be hit.

In Dust Storm by gold94corolla, on Flickr

After that was over, I had to pull over for some R&R lol, it was quite stressful driving through that. Well the car definitely had no chance of being clean for the car show at this point lol. Still looks good in the pics, but trust me, it's dirty lol.

IMG_1501-2 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

IMG_1500-2 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

That wasn't the end of the wind or dust storms. I had to pull over to pull a tumbleweed out of the front lol, in the middle of nowhere.

Middle of Nowhere 1 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Middle of Nowhere 2 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Then I got back on the highway in Wyoming, and I thought things would get better. Nope. Wind was just as worse as ever, but the speed limit was 75 MPH. Felt like I'd get blown away lol.

In fact, this happened right in front of me, I had to wait for another pickup to come pull the trailer back over. When the people were out trying to fix it, they looked so miserable in the blowing dust. Other people were able to pass on in the median ditch, but I wasn't gonna chance it. Only took like 10 minutes of waiting.

High Winds!! by gold94corolla, on Flickr

So then I got around him, only to head up towards the rockies, where all the digital message signs were warning of blizzards, blowing snow, turn off your cruise control, etc. And the interstate had these gates that could close when it got too snowy, and variable speed limit signs.

Well they weren't kidding, the speed limit dropped, and suddenly there was snow all over the ground. I watched the temperature drop to 30 degrees. And then the snow was blowing all over the road.

Blizzard Conditions 1 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Zero visibility again, and the snow was actually piled up on the road, and there were snow plows and salt everywhere. And here I am in my little RWD car with summer tires, scared to death for my life lol

Blizzard Conditions 2 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Thank God I made it through that mess in one piece. Had to stop for some more "R&R" lol. Took some pics in the snow.

Wyoming Rest Stop 1 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Wyoming Rest Stop 2 by gold94corolla, on Flickr

The inside of the wheels were just coated with a thick layer of dust and bugs

Dirty Wheel by gold94corolla, on Flickr

My poor engine ... all kinds of mess baked into it!!

Dirty Engine by gold94corolla, on Flickr

Once I made it past the rockies, I ended up in Idaho where the weather and sky were perfect! Spent the night in Idaho. Oh, and I saw an 80MPH speed limit lol (Maryland's max is 65) which was cool

Rockies by gold94corolla, on Flickr

lol why not?

Ah, well you know I don't get good MPG either lol. The trip cost $1260 in gas.