The Museum of American Speed will embark on a "Sea to Sea in a Model T" road trip on the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco in a 1924 Ford Model T on June 4th to mark the 100th anniversary

The ten-millionth Ford Car left the Highland Park factories of The Ford Motor Company on June 4th, 1924

Frank Kulick, who attained fame and broke many records as the pilot of Ford racing cars, was at the wheel during the trans-continental trip on the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco, 

and a recreation of that same vehicle is on display at the Museum of American Speed after it was donated by the family of the late Dr. Hathaway, who made the same exact trip a total of two times – to mark 50 years since Ford’s own road trip, as well as 75 years.

“Our team is excited to be part of a third trip in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ten-millionth Model T Ford,” said Tim Matthews curator of the Museum of American Speed.

 “The Model T Ford changed the world’s landscape and way of life forever. We are excited to take this 100 year old car out of its Museum display and prove it can make this monumental voyage once again.”

https://fordauthority.com/2024/04/1924-ford-model-t-anniversary-will-be-recognized-with-trip

https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2024.htm

https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/264772.html?1328979880

https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/info/oh/

https://www.museumofamericanspeed.org/sea-to-sea-in-a-model-t.html

A load of Barney Oldfield tires, because to have a dependable tire, depends on how many spare tires you have

Jacky Wilkens and Otto Freidenshon, together known as The Tire Guys shown here just one day before they took off on their new Lincoln Highway adventure.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-475#post-13529957

Roadside attraction I'd never heard of until now, the Como Bluff Fossil Cabin on the Lincoln highway, in Medicine Bow Wyoming, built in 1932

Though built in 1932, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest building in the world: the walls of the building were built out of 5,796 mortared-together dinosaur bones, dug from nearby areas.

Initially, the building was part of a gasoline filling station along US 30 by Thomas Boylan, who had been collecting bones for 17 years, with the intention of creating sculptures in front of his home and the gas station.

The cabin is widely recognized as the only building constructed of fossilized dinosaur bones in the United States

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/fossil-cabin
https://www.zmescience.com/other/offbeat-other/dinosaur-cabin-wyoming/

This week, the Military Vehicle Preservation Association will depart from York, Pa., and again head out on the Lincoln Highway for San Francisco.

There’s another commemoration of that 1919 transcontinental drive happening Aug. 31-Sept. 16, organized by the Lincoln Highway Association

https://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2019/08/12/Military-Vehicle-Preservation-Army-transcontinental-convoy-Lincoln-Highway/stories/201907310229

The Lincoln Highway Association archive in the University of Michigan's Transportation Library is approximately 3,000 images of construction, towns and cities, markers, bridges, cars, camp sites, scenic views, and the 1928 logbook of Lincoln Highway markers made by local Boy Scouts

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/linchigh

I think I posted this before, but can't find anything about it... so, better to be safe and post it than to wonder, and fail to get it on the blog. Boy Scouts taking the Lincoln Highway in a modern day covered wagon

some years ago I remember posting about the Lincoln Highway, but didn't know it was Scouts that put up mile and highway markers along the 4000 miles of the Lincoln Highway. Try and pull that event off today. Lawyers would shut you down in an instant, liberals would be hot on their heels to get the kids taken away by CPS from their parents, and politicians would try and claim credit for the accomplishment.

So, here, in the above photo, is the 1928 New York City to San Franscisco 3389 Miles in 34 Days trek.

 

https://boyslife.org/wayback/#issue=Nz9okUT9dVMC&pg=25

 https://boyslife.org/wayback/#issue=Nz9okUT9dVMC&pg=25
click through to see the entire itinerary, but here's a sample

http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/BSA-1928/BSA-Index.html?fbclid=IwAR10MDo7c7D4-KM8MxiDBfCVSKTaiLqrhwv9W_uTtahwRyXjUtDW08Kc77o

And the last of those scouts? Lived to 102!

 While in the Navy, Queneau improved oxygen tanks in planes so pilots could fly at higher altitudes. This earned him the Navy Commendation Medal.

He was the last living member of that seven-person expedition.



https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/12/08/bernard-queneau/

but I find it as amazing that in 1914 a Boy Scout troop hiked with a wagon of supplies from Minnesota to San Fransisco

that I posted about 3 years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/1914-kids-were-made-of-tough-pioneer.html