Model T’s re-enact 1909 Ocean to Ocean Race, Ending In Issaquah
Model T Fords, all 1909-1927 originals, landed in Issaquah for a stop at Issaquah’s History Museum and the Train Depot Museum. The History Museum’s new exhibit about the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo in Seattle coincides with the T’s commemorative race of the same Expo. Leaving New York June 14 this was the last leg of the event. The University of Washington is the final destination for the T’s.
These are just a few of the cars that were participating. Each car has a unique personality.
Click here for a Slide Show of the cars.
XXXRoot Beer and Evergreen Ford were stops for the T’s as well.
Comments from The Issaquah Reporter:
More than 50 vintage Ford Model Ts have set off to cross the country along the back roads of 12 states, to reenact the Ocean-to-Ocean Automobile Race. The race was part of the opening festivities of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (AYP) Exposition in 1909.
Like the original race, members of the Model T Ford Club International will drive west along nearly 4,000 miles of this country’s oldest highways from New York to Seattle’s University of Washington campus, the site of the 1909 AYP.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
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