Is there anything more genuinely American than hitting the open road in an overloaded, aging jalopy... and then spending part of the vacation broken down by the side of that road with your thumb out?

Not too very long ago we asked for your best road trip horror stories. And, boy, did we get them! Stories of cars breaking in half, dogs on fire, hysterical mass-familial road sickness — even the unintended demolition of a Dairy Queen.

Our first request for road trip horror stories was so successful, we decided to do it a second time.

And, once again, those stories were just as impressive! Bedouins roaming the Middle East with heisted drive shafts. Errant, flying porta-potties. And more.

Thanks to the thousands of you who told us your tale of woe.

Here are our favorites. On behalf of all of us who will read these stories and laugh our tuchuses off, all we can say is this: thanks for taking the bullet for us!

Tom and Ray
Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers