Although not mentioned in his book "32,000 Miles of Adventure" (Buenos Aires 1930, 270 pp.), brothers Adam and Andrew Stoessel was inspired to his trip to America in the raid Aimé Tschiffely with Gato and Mancha, the Swiss-English began in April 1925 in Buenos Aires and ended three years later in Washington.
What does stand out, and this shows the Stoessel visionaries is that they seek to signal future directions for the Pan American Highway, it would end up taking final form only in the early '40s.
'28 Chevrolet With a brand new left hand drive (unusual because in Argentina was circulated on the left and then all the cars had right direction) began the long journey in his hometown Arroyo Short, among Pigué and Coronel Suárez, at 8 pm on April 15, 1928. After passing through Buenos Aires, Rosario, Cordoba, Santiago and Tucuman largely using farm roads as there were no roads or paths, arriving in Salta on 30 after the first great quagmire of 23 hours by rain.
Bolivia
try to reach the Quebrada de Humahuaca, but can not pass through the floods in Volcano. Prove more successful then the Quebrada del Toro, where the roads were excellent as were the service Huaytiquina FC. Passing through the borate deposits of the Salinas Grandes de Jujuy do not see no sign of footprints or impressions not car tires. "An Indian who was sitting at the door of a miserable hut, could not tell, because they do not know a word of English, and not even realized the scope of our questions in spite of our expressive gestures," until "finally, jubilant Adam shows us a trail of rubber on the soft earth, "to the Indian showed them the soles of his sandals made from a piece of cover car.
pass in Bolivia Oruro, La Paz and across the Salar de Uyuni. With great difficulty, having to open tracks, go to Cuzco and arrive on August 28 in Lima. Similarly to Tschiffely, spend periods of famine and the Indians refuse to sell animals, they have to eat eggs sometimes. "We could not, of course, let us die of hunger in the midst of the mountain, and it was therefore necessary to put away his revolver to demand that sell us what we asked." A violent snowstorm makes almost die in the mountains.
In the Peruvian Andes (as in other sites too) were out of gas and had to walk several days to procure fuel in drums. For Puquio Huancacocha and must make their way to pick and shovel, building bridges and drywall precarious slope paths, they need more than 20 days to transpose 36 miles (180 kilometers).
already in "the country where it never rains" arrive in Lima on 28 August and are amazed by the large number of children of the Celestial Empire settled there (they had been hired to work in the construction of the FC Central del Peru). They are surprised that the Chinese restaurants "not quoted the value of the food but also of the dishes that contain them, charging ten cents a smooth plate, fifteen by one striped and 20 for flowers."
In Lima , however, they had run out of funds. Lima acted providentially in those days the company Argentina's theatrical circus Segundo Pomar, a businessman who organized a benefit performance of Stoessel. In Lima, there are many weeks, for lack of money and because they fell in love with several beautiful Lima. Repeated romances lived in several cities and thus lost (or gained) long. To all this his mechanic Carlos Diaz decided to stay working in the city of the viceroys an excellent job offer he received as head of a workshop.
In the deserts of sand that later had to cross, footwear supermedida tires, reinforced and half the normal pressure not to sink. "
near Trujillo are in the middle of nowhere with a group of people "about listening to a rock musician who played shabby bearded guitar and sang songs. Got off the car to see, but immediately surrounded us with rifles pointed at us and carrying guns in their clothing and claiming the mandatory surrender of all that we had ... and the threat of a half dozen fire hydrants even forced us to rid our clothes, perhaps to avoid the hassle of reviewing their pockets, "magnanimously letting the car because none of the outlaws knew how.
After going through many adventures with Ecuador and Colombia go across the great plains of Venezuela. Encounter at a time with wild Indians (seen in the film) who live by hunting and gathering. The poison for arrows is prepared in this way: the weeds are collected and boiled needed in a large pan. To check whether the toxin has reached its point, making the most veteran of the tribe, and four have it face down on the pot, if he died, the concoction was ready.
arrived in Caracas after eleven months, and May 18, 1929 to Mexico, where they stole the celluloid film, film that is then partially recovered copies to be established along the way, because many parts cast their adventures for a living. The copy that survives is a reconstruction. Among the many setbacks
figure (and this is documented in the film-video) that when crossing a river, it got stuck. At night the waters rose and covered the vehicle. With patience disarmed and dried everything and rearmed.
would remember the final "Magdalena River alligators, tropical fevers, relentless mosquitoes, deserts, swamps, jungles, the bandits of Trujillo, Nicaragua and Almorzadero, and cans that were our daily menu for 15 days while we were building a track in order to continue. "
They estimated they spent 6,000 gallons of gasoline, which seems much because if you traveled 32,000 kilometers is clearly excessive consumption of almost one-liter x mile. Instead it is likely to have broken 43 tires (tires).
The May 6, 1930, after 25 months of travel, arrived in New York. In Detroit, GM made them a great reception, leaving his car in the Chevrolet museum. One of the great feats of the car had been written by Argentines.
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