P. E. Haige brought up that old advertisement of Chrysler and their wonderful new alternator. And it really was a great improvement over the generators we had for ages. But in 1966, when Oldsmobile brought out the Toronado, which along with the Cadillac El Dorado were the first American cars with front wheel drive since the demise of Cord in 1936. So Olds, for an interesting ad, hooked up their new Toronado to I believe an Air Stream travel trailer and drove it from New York to San Fanciso without rear wheels and tires as the basis for their ad. It did attract a lot of attention. I suspect they somewhat modified the equalizer hitch to insure that the unit stayed "in line" for the whole trip. It must have been a bit troublesome in 1966 to fuel up, because large Gas Station fueling areas as we now have, especially on the Interstate, were rarely available in 1966. And this was a very long and inflexible assembly. The price of gas was no problem though, as gas was typically selling for $0.31 cents a gallon.

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