Oh, great! Yet ANOTHER book about a bird on fire driving around on a naked guy turning into a car! 

Prolific sci-fi and fantasy author John Jakes is best known to sword-and-sorcery fans as the creator of Brak the Barbarian and to everyone else as the bestselling author of the Kent Family Chronicles.

On Wheels is a cross between Mad Max and Snowpiercer, a dystopian satire about clans of nomadic speed-freaks living and dying on a never-ending superhighway where stopping is forbidden.

Cover art by Texan artist Don Ivan Punchatz for the 1973 paperback edition.