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An Epic Road Trip

Welcome back for Part 2 of my epic road trip from 2005. For those of you who don't have last month's column handy, here's a quick recap of the first half of the trip. I got my friend, Adam Bruno to copilot the '57 Microbus on a cross-country road trip to deliver it to Gibbs in Philadelphia. Along the way, we went to the vintage races at Road America in Wisconsin, visited friends, and picked up another Bus in Illinois.

We drove our little caravan of two 36hp Transporters up to Holland, Michigan, where we visited Brian McCue and his collection of '52 Buses. Brian's favorite year is 1952, so he has collected

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