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Mickey Thompson Won   Class C- Large Engine Compact 27.30 MPG Pontiac Tempest    Judy Thompson Won   Class G - Medium Priced Cars 19.48 MPG Pontiac Star Chief

1962: The purpose of the Mobil Economy Run is to determine the mileage potentials of American passenger cars under the same city and country driving conditions encountered by the average motorist.   Since American automobiles greatly differ in size, weight and horsepower and cannot be expected to compete on a miles-per-gallon basis, the field is broken into 8 competitive classes. All classes except class A, cars must be equipped with automatic transmissions.  Mickey and his wife Judy both drove cars in the Mobil Economy Run this was there third year. They both took first place in there class.

1962 ECONOMY RUN CLASSES
Class A	Compact Cars with Manual (3-speed) Transmission	under 200 cid
Class B	Small Engine Compact Cars	under 160 cid
Class C	Large Engine Compact Cars	161 to 200 cid
Class D	Luxury Compact Cars	201 to 260 cid
Class E	Standard Size Six Cylinder Cars
Class F	Low Price, Standard Size, Eight Cylinder Cars
Class G	Medium Price, Standard Size, Eight Cylinder Cars
Class H	Luxury Cars

LEG	MILES	TIME ALLOWED	SPEED AVERAGE
Los Angeles-Flagstaff	484.6	11:50	41.2703 mph
Flagstaff-Tucumari	539.8	12:30	43.2459 mph
Tucumari-Tulsa	469.0	11:00	42.7744 mph
Tulsa-St. Louis	402.1	9:20:	43.6260 mph
St. Louis-Chicago	306.7	7:45	46.3885 mph
Chicago-Detroit	295.4	6:30	46.3885 mph

HIGHLIGHTS
Overall Distance	2497.6 miles
Average Speed	42.70 mph
Highest Altitude	9010 feet Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming
Lowest Point on course	47 feet below sea level. Indio, California
Number of towns passed through	183
Number of States passed through	9
Traffic Signals	256
City Driving	272.6 miles
Expressway Driving	830.8

Mickey Thompson Class G - Medium Priced V-8 19.27 MPG Pontiac Star Chief   Judy Thompson Class C- Large Engine Compact 27.31 MPG Pontiac Tempest    Here Mickey admits to Miss Thunderbird in Las Vegas. Here is Judy going across the Nevada desert.

1963:   Again in 1963 Mickey Thompson and his wife Judy Thompson made the Mobil Economy Run. This was there fourth time in the Mobil Economy Run.  In this run they switched cars from the previous year Mickey drove in Class G and Judy drove in Class C. If you look at the results you will see Judy actually did better than Mickey did in his old car, and he did worse in her old car.

LEG	MILES	TIME ALLOWED	SPEED AVERAGE
Los Angeles-Las Vegas
Las Vegas-Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City-Cheyenne
Cheyenne-Omaha
Omaha-Chicago
Chicago-Detroit

HIGHLIGHTS
Overall Distance	2373.2 miles
Average Speed	43.77 mph
Highest Altitude	9010 feet Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming
Number of towns passed through	203
Number of States passed through	11
Traffic Signals	340
City Driving	356 miles
Expressway Driving	525 miles

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