
Driving Like Crazy
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From a veteran of both Car and Driver and National Lampoon magazines, this hilarious book chronicles the golden age of the automobile in America-and 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-door Buick sedan, to a thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 in 1983, to a journey 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," about the potential misdeeds one might perform in the front (and back) seat of an automobile; "The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club," which chronicles a seven-hundred-mile weekend trip through Michigan and Indiana that O'Rourke took on a Harley-Davidson; 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 ride from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover's new Discovery Trek.
"Never in neutral, O'Rourke offers laughter on wheels." - Publishers Weekly
"An insightful look not just at the American love affair with cars, but also at one man's changing outlook on life, all of it fast-paced and over the top... Even readers who know nothing about cars and motorcycles will appreciate the joy and hilarity of this book." - Booklist
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- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The End of the American Car
- 1 How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink
- 2 How to Drive Fast When the Drugs Are Mostly Lipitor, 13 the Wing-Wang Needs More Squeezing Than It Used to Before It Gets the Idea, and Spilling Your Drink Is No Problem If You Keep the Sippy Cups from When Your Kids Were Toddlers and Leave the Baby Seat in the Back Seat so that When You Get Pulled Over You Look Like a Perfectly Innocent Grandparent
- 3 Sgt. Dynaflo's Last Patrol
- 4 NASCAR Was Discovered By Me
- 5 The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club
- 6 "Come On Over to My House-We're Gonna Jump Off the Roof!"
- 7 A Test of Men and Machines That We Flunked
- 8 A Better Land Than This
- 9 Getting Wrecked
- 10 Keep Your Eyes Off the Road
- 11 Comparative Jeepology 101
- 12 Taking My Baby for a Ride
- 13 ReinCARnation
- 14 The Geezers' Grand Prix
- 15 Call for a New National Park
- 16 A Ride to the Funny Farm in a Special Needs Station Wagon Complete with Booby Hatch
- 17 Big Love
- 18 The Other End of the American Car
- Footnote
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