Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. O'Rourke's love
for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in America.
O'Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world's most scenic and
bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978
Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-door Buick sedan
to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 to a trek
through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus
six-wheel-drive truck. For longtime fans of the celebrated humorist, the
collection features a host of O'Rourke's classic pieces on driving,
including "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang
Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink," about the potential misdeeds one
might perform in the front (and back) seat of an automobile; "The
Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club," which chronicles a
seven-hundred-mile weekend trip through Michigan and Indiana that
O'Rourke took on a Harley Davidson alongside Car & Driver publisher
David E. Davis, Jr.; his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on
NASCAR and its peculiar culture, recorded during an alcohol-fueled
weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977; and an hilarious account
of a trek from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover's new Discovery Trek.