I got into it real bad several years ago. Cobra29LTD classic, nice little one pill linear n either a 102 whip (better) or a Wilson 5 foot fiberglass. I talked to Maryland all night one night from my driveway. Neighbors heard me on their TV though! LOL. Skipped to Tenn during rush hour one time. Its nice to talk to folks in traffic. Drove from here to Michigan on I-75...so worth it. Knew where every cop was and if the roads were navigable due to the snowstorm that year. Sold 'em all for cash but now I want to get back into it and get a new one. Break Break Break....Coletrain just got doowwnn on the one nine break break break!!! Try the CB internet forum or CBRT for fun and info.
That brings back some memories of my teenage years. My Dad figured out how to mod an SBE Trinidad to get a few channels above the standard 23 channels of that day. One morning in the heat of the summer I was able to carry on a short conversation with a guy in California, from Louisville, KY on just 4 watts on a Radio Shack 5/8 wave ground plane. I was hooked at that point and got a friend interested in DX'ing. He had a set of Moonraker IV's and he then got a 200 watt linear. We talked to people all over the country and even South America once and collected a bunch of QSO cards.
Fun times!