DJ - Good afternoon on this Friday, July 25th. Welcome to the Come Along With Don and Carl audio update. We had a minor disaster today when Alan Bobillot, chief of our service crew for the China Clipper, that's what we call this Packard Clipper convertible. Packard Clipper was the model designation for Packard in those days, so since we're taking it to China we call it the China Clipper. At any rate, we went to get some additional steel plating to protect the engine pan and transmission and Alan was involved in an automobile accident when an airport van ran a stoplight and smashed into Alan's volkswagon camper and fortunately Alan had on his safety belt and the damage was a big knot on the side of his head where he went through the driver's window. They took him to the emergency room at the hospital. He has a very bad headache and is not working now, but we don't think there is any permanent damage to him, we hope not. We have assistance from Peter Portugal, who is putting on the steel plates because we have to get the car down this weekend to the Oakland docks. We've made some very good improvements to the performance of the car that we learned in our trip to California to New York and then from New York back to California.

Don's comments about the sculpture on the Bonneville Salt Flats, as I looked at it, it looked like a giant metal lollipop tree. Very unusual. Driving across the Bonneville Salt Flats on this trip, going back east and them coming back, brought back memories of the 1950s when my father would go to the Bonneville Salt Flats and attempt speed records with a Class C Dragster. I hope we have better luck going around the world than I had in attempting the 200 mile mark on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Back to our trip. We expect to take the car down to Oakland, get it containerized. Have the car all packed with a first aid kit, sleeping bags, tent, parts, eating utensils for the picnics we'll have and so forth, so forth. I hope all the friends and relatives of Don and I keep tuning in and getting these reports. We will keep them coming for you. Hope you all have a nice weekend.