“EVEN WITH THE CADILLAC ELDORADO’S CRUISE SET TO 70MPH, THE DOMINANT TRAFFIC OF HUGE SEMI-TRAILERS, MANY DRIVEN BY WOMEN, STREAMED PAST” FIRST PUBLISHED MARCH 1995
Most of all, the best of these stories demonstrate the continuing fascination of a long journey by car. America, home of the road trip in popular culture, has often been the location for such tales that, mostly, involve the latest and greatest models.
‘Caddy Cool’ was different. Author Col Menzies, a wonderfully talented, former Wheels assistant editor, and his mate, fellow journalist Frank Robson (two Walkley awards for feature writing) simultaneously suffered a mid-life crisis. They believed their predicament could only be solved by flying to America, buying a proper, big yank tank – budget $1000 – and spending four weeks playing Kerouac, O’Rourke and…
