Freeway Fighter is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Kevin Bulmer and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books.
The player's vehicle must also be continually supplied with petrol, with the fuel gauge reaching zero resulting in failure and ending the game.
Freeway Fighter is a science-fiction adventure scenario in which the hero must journey through the wilderness to find needed supplies from an oil refinery, to save his town New Hope.
[1] The story takes places in a post-apocalyptic United States, after much of the world's population has fallen victim to a deadly plague.
The player takes the role of a citizen of the town New Hope who must drive their armed Dodge Interceptor motorcar across the wastes in order to procure a tanker filled with a fresh supply of petrol for their community.