Show notes
Steve hosts without Ike at first and checks in with Tom Pickford, Greg Fitzgerald, Bill Cooper, and Laura Stacey as they drive Pollyanna—Barbara Toy’s famed Series I Land Rover—across the southern U.S. toward the Texas Rover Club’s SCAR event honoring Toy. They discuss how the trip came together after Jaguar Land Rover brought Pollyanna to Pebble Beach, the convoy support vehicles, early mechanical quirks from year-old fuel, recreating Toy’s Jacksonville Beach moment with the mayor, and efforts to preserve and expand Toy’s legacy through barbara-toy.com, surviving letters, and the book The Free Lives of Barbara Toy, plus challenges republishing her out-of-print books (only In Search of Sheba is currently reprinted). Back in studio, Steve and Ike note Tim Slessor’s death, a Tom Holland Series Land Rover ad, and a Liam Neeson horror-comedy featuring Land Rovers.00:00 Ike Is Out Today00:39 Hotel Internet Fixes01:32 Naming The Expedition02:19 Meet The Pollyanna Crew03:59 Why Recreate The Journey06:52 Picking Up Pollyanna07:24 JFK Versus Newark08:49 On The Road Glitches12:10 Laura Joins The Ride14:45 Club Shirts And Walmart15:56 Bill And The Support Cars17:40 Writing And Publishing Plans19:22 Saving Barbara Toy History22:51 Recreating Jacksonville Beach23:38 Family Ties And Legacy25:16 Rescuing Barbara’s Archive26:08 Letters Become a Book26:39 Hunting Global Ephemera27:41 Reprinting the Travelogues29:27 Pollyanna and Lost Vehicles31:32 Why the Books Are Rare33:18 Secondhand Shop Strategies34:24 Farewell and Modern Contrast36:38 Land Rover News Roundup38:02 Tom Holland Series Ad39:36 Tattoo Banter Detour40:42 Pollyanna Trip Check-In44:16 Liam Neeson Zombie Film46:35 Wrap Up and Next Check-In
