Ain't THAT the way it goes....

Hey-O said:

The day I bought my 65, we drove it home, 20 miles of it in rain and hail on the highway with no place to hide. It was coming down so hard I couldn't see to drive over 25 mph. Rain stopped so fast you could draw a line between wet and dry. Sun dried the car and it was spotless when I made it home. Pea sized hail, not a mark on the car, thank God!

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Goodness!
I drove my old '68 Super Bee all the way back from a NeHOA meet in Chicopee, MA (back in the mid 80's) to northern VA with no wiper motor installed in the car at all one time (I had bought it with the previous owner installing the '69 SixPak setup on it, which doesn't clear 2 speed wiper motors).
Don't you know it came the rain storm from hell all the way back down I-95...
Car was dancing, wouldn't let me go much more than 45 or so.
We had bought a bottle of Rain-X and stopped about every hour under shelter to re-apply the crap, which worked halfway decent sort of.
Lastly, I taught my ride-along friend that day about reaching up under the dash and moving the wiper linkage by hand.
The George Washington bridge in NYC was a hoot; the Delaware Bay bridge was a freaking NIGHTMARE, all open grid metal and side winds and such. White knuckle ride...

Many, many hours later we arrived in VA. I peeled my hands off the wheel (death grip cramps!) and tried to get my eyes to focus normally; that took a while, too.
Thanked the Lord, tossed out my friends' stuff and headed on down the road another hour to my place.

1967coronet said:

Ed, when you was talking about the ride up the drive...........
I thought you just may meet Bruce on the way down

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No telephone guide wires near my drive, thankfully!

moparedtn said:

Very pricy stuff; about 3/4 the price of just paving the thing.
I'm not too proud to turn down a generous offer for someone to pick up the tab, though.

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In the city they are always repaving when its in season. They mill the street(s) and at times the venders have to travel far to find somebody who needs those millings. Just maybe not as far as Tenn, LOL.
The stuff does pack down hard though.

steve from staten island said:

In the city they are always repaving when its in season. They mill the street(s) and at times the venders have to travel far to find somebody who needs those millings. Just maybe not as far as Tenn, LOL.
The stuff does pack down hard though.

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Once you have a hard, smooth substrate (gravel, packed like mine - almost 450 tons on mine over the years!), then you have to lay the "slurry" (emulsifier) to the millings, mix them up like asphalt, then apply, then roll with the usual - hence, why it's not a whole lot cheaper than just paving to begin with.
Their paving schedules in this region run quite a bit longer than up yonder, too, meaning the millings have more age - and are therefore, more dry. From what the big contractors tell me, about all the millings are turned around and used right back again, typically on the same project!

I was lucky, as Steve from SI stated. The DOT of Pa needed a place to dump millings. Just so happened a friend has a big lot and the state asked if it was ok to dump mega tons of millings on his property. Just so happened my PA property had a up hill dirt drive that washed out on a regular basis. That stuff packed great and then shot with tar and chip to seal was a 100% improvement.