The flat tyre that inspired a chart-topping hit for America in 1972

The flat tyre that inspired a chart-topping hit for America in 1972

The great American road trip is a mythologised voyage made famous by some of the very best names in cinema, music and literature. In fact, Jack Kerouac once famously wrote, “Nothing behind me, everything in front of me, as is ever so on the road” in his beat generation scroll On The Road, and thus captured this sense of the boundless opportunity that exists on the country’s sprawling roads. Generally, a sense of magic comes from the roads that t…