500 mile road trip with OVERDRIVE!!

[Botietruck]

Just got back in town. Left Friday morning and visisted my son & family in Roanoke, VA - about 250 miles away. With the 250 c.i. engine and the 3 spd. Saginaw with the overdrive, I got 15 mpg. That's with the air conditioner on about 50% of the time and I was running about 1/3 of the time in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I ran between 60 - 70 mph most of the time and at times, pushed it up to 75 mpg. I was hoping to get around 18 mpg, but that a/c really makes the 250 work.

I am very satisfied with the overdrive and the way it operates.

One thing I will have to take care of is calibrating the speedometer. My wife and daughter drove our Toyota van, and when she had the cruise on 60 mpg, my speedometer was reading 50. So, it looks like it's about 10 mpg off.