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Early Road Trip Books
Can you guys recommend books or stories of early automobile road trips? Prefer those originally published in Model T era or earlier.
Thanks!
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Re: Early Road Trip Books
Alice's Drive: Republishing Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron
I am not a "story" reader, and even for me, this was a "must read"
I am not a "story" reader, and even for me, this was a "must read"
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From Sea to Sea in 1903 in a Curved Dash Oldsmobile by John Hammond is a great one.
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Travels with Zerobia by Rose Wilder Lane is a wonderful story of two young women traveling Europe in a Model T Sedan in the 1920s. Rose Wilder Lane was a well known author who was the daughter of Wilder who wrote the Little House on The Prairie series. Original copies of this book are rare. I have one. It has been reprinted by the University of Missouri. Check on line.
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This is one of my dad’s favorites. He has read it multiple times. It’s just the story of a couple guys on a road trip in a Model T.
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Re: Early Road Trip Books
Motor flight through France by Edith Wharton (1908).
Travelling in a Panhard et Levassor, the brand that inspired Henry to use Vanadium steel.
Travelling in a Panhard et Levassor, the brand that inspired Henry to use Vanadium steel.
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Re: Early Road Trip Books
Great suggestions! Keep them coming.
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Re: Early Road Trip Books
I think I found some good recommendations as well. Learning more about automobile road trips of those times will be interesting. In general, I like books that describe life in the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. There was something really interesting in those days for me. Recently, I found on one website a summary of the book 12 years a slave which was written in the middle of the 19 century. You can check here and get to know more info. I think it is worth reading. But I guess it will be after I read the books you recommended here. I was particularly interested in 'From sea to sea' and 'Travels with Zenobia'. Thanks
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Darlene's Silver Streak and The Bradford Model T Girls, by John G. Butte was on sale at the MRFCA Museum a few years ago and the Model T was on display.
Several girls made trips every summer in the car for several years and met a lot of important people.
There was a lot of history of what was happening in the USA at that time. They went to Canada too.
The car.
Several girls made trips every summer in the car for several years and met a lot of important people.
There was a lot of history of what was happening in the USA at that time. They went to Canada too.
The car.
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Typo: MRFCA is MTFCA.
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Re: Early Road Trip Books
Jim, click on the pencil at the top of your post and you can edit to make corrections.
The inevitable often happens.
1915 Runabout
1923 Touring
1915 Runabout
1923 Touring
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Four on a tour in England by Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton.
Two American couples just a few weeks before WW1 began in summer 1914.
They sailed to Liverpool and took delivery of a new Model T from Manchester.
Drove 2927 miles all round the UK.
Two American couples just a few weeks before WW1 began in summer 1914.
They sailed to Liverpool and took delivery of a new Model T from Manchester.
Drove 2927 miles all round the UK.
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I apologize if it was already mentioned, but the Ford Pamphlet on the New York to Seattle Race (Ocean to Ocean) back in 1909 is a fun read. I looked but I didn't see it listed for sale in Lang's -- maybe it never was? But most of it (maybe all) is included on pages 62- 75 of Philip van Doren Stern's "Tin Lizzie" copyright 1955 - Simon and Schuster, Inc. It is available at some libraries and you could request an inter-library loan if they don't have a copy near you. I think it was reprinted (quality of reprint is not known). That book is also a great read on Model Ts in general -- although later discoveries reveal some errors.
Not a book -- but a documentary of the first automobile crossing of the USA back in 1903 by PBS. Again I looked but it said not available? I think we watched on streaming? Anyway -- I enjoyed it a lot. One place to start tracking it down if you want to watch it: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/horatios-drive/ again -- when I went there today -- that was a dead end, but it has details to help in a search.
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Not a book -- but a documentary of the first automobile crossing of the USA back in 1903 by PBS. Again I looked but it said not available? I think we watched on streaming? Anyway -- I enjoyed it a lot. One place to start tracking it down if you want to watch it: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/horatios-drive/ again -- when I went there today -- that was a dead end, but it has details to help in a search.
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Thanks Steve!
I did not know that and my major was computer science!
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About five years ago, a guy from England came over here and bought a Model T to drive from Virginia to California.
He had never driven one before this trip.
Then he took a detour to Texas for car repairs and still had the engine fail near his destination. His book never sold well in America, but it is available on Amazon and a fun to read story.
The title is Another Fine Mess, Across the USA in a Ford Model T, and the author is Tim Moore.
He did take the T back to England after his drive was complete.
He flew back!
He had never driven one before this trip.
Then he took a detour to Texas for car repairs and still had the engine fail near his destination. His book never sold well in America, but it is available on Amazon and a fun to read story.
The title is Another Fine Mess, Across the USA in a Ford Model T, and the author is Tim Moore.
He did take the T back to England after his drive was complete.
He flew back!
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Shaking The Nickel Bush, By Ralph Moody is an autobiographical story of two men traveling west in 1919 in a second hand ford. They find they can make big money doing stunts and "falls" on horses in the movies, as long as their bodies hold out. Published in 1962.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison ... 803282186/
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison ... 803282186/
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Re: Early Road Trip Books
'Across the world in a Napier' by Andrew M Jepson
'From Peking to Paris' by count Luigi Barzini
'Light car patrols' by Claud Williams and Russel McGuirck
I have more but they are in a big stack of books that i am afraid will bury me if i try to take it apart looking for one
'From Peking to Paris' by count Luigi Barzini
'Light car patrols' by Claud Williams and Russel McGuirck
I have more but they are in a big stack of books that i am afraid will bury me if i try to take it apart looking for one
When in trouble, do not fear, blame the second engineer !
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