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Dec. 27, 2005 - It's Cold!

Now I know why the 'Beach Boys' needed a girl in the summer in Northern California just to keep warm. I stopped at the Chevron in Crescent City one July night (there might be more than one Chevron there, but I didn't see any others). I'm not sure what time it was, but it was dark. The wind was quite brisk. I opened the deck lid to check the oil (20w50, of course) and I needed some. Many days of extended cruising at over 100mph had taken their toll.

By the time I could go in to the kiosk, buy the oil, return to the car, dump it in and fire up the motor the wind had cooled parts of the engine to well below ideal operating temperature and the engine started loping like a sick horse.

I blame the K-Jetronic controls (not too sophisticated and unable to deal with the then somewhat incompatible demands of the various systems).

I had to drive for nearly ten minutes to get everything back to peak condition.

At least, for the two weeks I was in the Golden State, I never had to put the top on. It must be true that it never rains in California.

I guess you can learn all the geography you really need from 'The Eagles' and the 'Beach Boys'.

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