Road trip gear

Ok all you road trippers and long haulers. What do you consider as must haves for a long road trip?
Here's my short list.
Lots of tunes & my sat radio
Up to date map book
Good spare tire
Propper jack & 2 small stands
Spare fan belt, cap & rotor, plugs, and a couple of long ignition wires
Couple gallons of water
Couple quarts of oil
Couple pints of trans fluid
Rags and waterless hand cleaner
Blanket or sleeping bag
Bag of snacks and cooler with water and beverages
A small toolkit
A chunk of 14 ga. automotive wire
A variety of spare fuses

Anything else you like to have please chime in.

 

slimjims (the food) and good company.

 

Heres a short list (Probably forget some stuff) of things I bring on my road trips.

-Spare Carb (Because I have a rare carb and may need parts)
-Spare Points
-Spare tire
-Lots and lots of tools
-Jack (It's nice to have a cheap little mini floor jack instead of the stock one)
-Mechanix gloves (for if you have to touch some hot shit!)
-Spare rad hoses
-Usually two things of oil (my car leaks a lot and I have an oil bath)
-Cell phone
-Truckers atlas
-GPS
-Spare fuses
-Spare cigarette lighter thing (For the GPS)
-Cell phone charger
-Spare tank of water
-Spare altenator (I have a custom not a hot rod so you don't see my "Un-tradtional altenator!)
-Sleeping bag/pillow (You may have to sleep in your car)
-Spare plugs
-Spare oil filter
-Spare u-joint
-Spare hardware
-Camera
-iPod
-Snacks

And a group of other car guys because driving alone is boring!

 

Oh ya the in car charger for the phone.

 

a bag of cable ties (zip ties) and a small cheapie electric fuel pump.

 

Sunglasses, cap, jacket

 

AAA card

 

My traveling tool box is 70# and goes everywhere.
Water
sunflower seeds
gloves
Carry on type bag with my drug store. change of clothes, digi camera, phone charger, toiletrys.
Feather pillow
jumper cables

I pretty much quit carry the parts store except when I have a part I know is failing and I have been too lazy to change. I do pack a bit more when I travel the Alcan. I've done that trip 6 times.

 

add a can of starter fluid and an assortment of misc. hardware: nuts bolts wire ends etc.

 

A clip on light or miners lamp comes in handy. I dont have credit cards so i bring a prepaid visa card along. I once got stuck in mud lake idaho on a sunday because i was out of gas and everyone was at church!

 

I carry the same thing in my hot rod that I do in the park avenue, a gps.

 

Water pump, fuel pump, 2 inline fuel filters, bearing grease, circuit tester, every tool I can get in the roadster.

 

Yes yes the auto club card

 

And alot of hope and faith and duct tape...

 

Cell phone & AAA card

 

most the things listed above,,,plus a small tarp to lay on,,if you gotta get under,to work on somethin

 

NSRA Fellow Pages, cell phone, credit card, travel light!

 

60lb Tool bag(i need to put a spare fuel pump in there)
Extra fluids
Spare/jack (piece of wood so the jack doesnt sink into the ground)
Phone/Wallet/AAA
Sunglasses
Wife
Dogs