I decided it was time to test the GTD40's mettle on the open road and as a "Grand Touring" car. My wife and I used our custom luggage for packing (2 Walmart bags stuffed into the door pockets) and headed off to the Seattle area from the San Francisco Bay Area for a long weekend with our daughters family. We took 2 days to travel up California's 101 to the Oregon Coast. Overnight in Brookings, Oregon then on thru Lincoln City and over to Portland just in time to hit the Friday night parking lot traffic thru town, 8 miles in 1 hour. Needless to say the engine got very warm in the 90 degree heat, but the little GT40 soldiered thru and immediately cooled down once we crossed the bridge into Washington and traffic returned to full speed. We continued on and arrived in Graham, WA ready for a cold beer and a shower. The up leg of this trip was right at 900 miles and the 340hp ford 302 averaged 18.4 mpg. For the return trip we came straight down I- 5. It took us 13 hours with gas and eating stops to drive the 850 miles and the mpg for the entire trip was 19.2. We did not exceed the speed limits by more than 5 mph for the entire trip. Things went well enough so that we are now planning a trip in October to a car show in Crescent City, OR. My wife was very reluctant about the whole idea of a long trip in the GT40 and many of our friends thought we had lost our minds. All in all things went pretty well, the A/C worked reasonably well and I found that if you stopped to gas up about every 150 miles and stretched your legs a bit the trip was more comfortable. So stretch your horizons and use the GT for some fun touring - just remember you have to back light! Amazing moment, I forgot to mention while driving the back roads from I-5 to Graham WA, between Tenino and McKenna a GT40 followed by a Cobra came at me and before I could get to my camera they were gone. Any of you guys out there?