I thought the Proving Ground was Rt.'s 1 and 9 in Seacaucus N.J.........and if you laid over in the Jersey City truck stop....it proved something, for sure,......incipient stupidity, I think.....
W. Pa's mountains are smaller than the Rockies,......But were laid out by the Indigenous Tribes,...about 800 years ago....So we have mountains with no runoff ramps and hairpin two-lane curves.....
Rt. 40 right through Hopwood, Pa.....before the 4-lane was put in..(..still mandatory 10MPH..)............Pennview Mountain,.......Munster Mountain ,..with the double-drop, and flat hairpin curve at the bottom,..(old road..).....
...All of Rt.30,...east of Breezewood.....Sideling Hill......Bootjack Hill,...up off of I-80....
White-Knuckle on a summer night,....with no power steering,..10-speed RR,........and 48,000 of Flammable Placard.....
And I learned why trucking companies started removing Vinyl Seats from the tractors..........The Human Body can draw suction from....various orifices......
Many nights I had to ...."release pressure"...before I could get off the seat......Cloth seats don't have...quite the adhesion properties , that Vinyl does.....
And,.....All you guys out West are used to long, sweeping vistas,...and Smooth roads.......
Here in W. Pa.......the only reason PennDOT paints lines on the roads,....is so the cows know where to quit grazing.....