We had about 60 cars including a few Model A's and one old Chevrolet. The weather was cool a couple of days with some rain, and some sunshine. There were a lot of wildflowers blooming, and the traffic was light. Many rural roads and Winery's to see along the way. We had a couple of unusual cars on the tour, one of which was an extended Touring to make 3 seats. Here are a few pictures.
Norm
We drove right onto the sand. Notice the 3 seat touring.
Norm
The original stretch limo. Did you go for pea soup?
More pictures. We visited an old tavern and a sign museum along with other places. In the museum at Santa Ynez there is a Model T school bus.
Norm
Here is the picture of our car on the sand. We had Hawaiian shirts on under the jackets, but it was quite cold and we didn't bring our wet suits.
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Very cool Norm, glad you had fun and thanks for sharing - looked like a good time.
Ate the Pea Soup a couple of times. There are other restaurants in the area, and we tried several others too. It is only 4 miles to Solvang, so we tried some there too.
Norm
I have a question. Does the 3 seat touring have a 4 man top?
Thanks for the pictures, looks like a good time!!
Wow that is fun! Unusual 6 lug demountable wheels, and a host of other period accessories!
Steve, guess they didn't go for pea soup. Sad.
The top was down on that 3 seat car. You can see in the picture posted above that the top has more than the usual number of top bows. It must be a custom built top. Anyway I don't know? Maybe the owner or someone who sees the forum can answer the question.
Norm
Ed and Karen Archer's wheels had steel spokes! The only other car I know of with steel spokes is Humble Howard's Lucky #7 Speedster.
It also had a very unusual front axle brace that was attached to the front at the top of the kingpin and back to the wishbone.
We drove 335 total miles during the week with lots of wineries and flowers blooming on the back roads.
Very few breakdowns with maybe only two that were parked on the trailers. I know or one water pump and one head gasket but both were repaired.
I had a very interesting time when I went out that first evening to park my Torpedo in the trailer for the night. The handcrank would not engage???
Seems my crankshaft pulley pin flew out somewhere during my run back down the 101 from Pismo Beach and didn't even put a mark on the fan belt! I got it started by putting a 16 penny nail in and made a new pin from a 5/16 bolt the next morning.
We saw lots of whales offshore at the very secluded Jalama Beach and had some of the best burgers ever there! Thanks to Edison for turning the power back on.