Roaches on a road trip

The novel 

Apparently, “Damnation Alley” is a cult classic, presumably because of its carefree road trip feeling (very 1970's, I suppose). The main characters have access to some really hot wheels: the “Landmaster”, a kind of armoured truck, and presumably every 12-year old boy's wet dream.

Personally, however, I didn't like the film. The whole concept is weird, since the road trip takes place immediately after World War III in a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with giant scorpions, flesh-eating cockroaches and inbred “rednecks”! The main heroes travel around in their tank searching for survivors, and eventually find clean water, lush vegetation, well-fed horses and a small town that somehow made it through the thermonuclear blasts…

There, the story promptly ends. With a happy ending beyond the Thunderdome? Well, at least it's original…