This Cross-Country Record Brought To You By Efficient Human Waste Management

Jack Baruth
by Jack Baruth

Have you heard? There’s a new “cross-country record”.


Three guys tossed a couple extra fuel tanks into a Mercedes CL55 and drove from the Red Ball to the Portofino, like, really fast. This has been done so many times in the past decade that there’s definitely starting to be a little ennui associated with it. For those who are interested in the super-secret technology used to make it happen this time, you can check out my article at R&T.

Hint: it was gas tanks and bedpans.

Our friends at Jalopnik had the exclusive on this one, by the way. The article is by TTAC alumnus and noted QOTD creator Doug DeMuro, who kind of plays Neil Strauss to “Ed”‘s Courtney Love. Or vice versa. It’s not easy to tell.

The one completely amazing part of the record is that they did it in a CL55. Your humble E-I-C pro tem once had a CL55 as a company car, lo these many years ago. It never made it 3,000 miles without some of those miles being a back-and-forth to the dealership. So there’s that.

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  • StatisticalDolphin StatisticalDolphin on Nov 01, 2013

    Doug is destined for bigger and better things. Maybe he'll move on to WSJ, taking Dan's slot. A note of caution, it's rumored that they strictly enforce the "no prostate jokes" rule.

  • Volt 230 Volt 230 on Nov 01, 2013

    Why isn't this guy being ticketed?

  • Ronnie Schreiber Ronnie Schreiber on Nov 01, 2013

    Is there a record for the North to South run, let's say the length of I-75 from Sault Ste Marie to Key West?

  • -Nate -Nate on Nov 02, 2013

    Coast to Coast and never stopping in even _one_ junkyard ? . That's not only no fun , it's absurd . -Nate

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