Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
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- First Name: Tony
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Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Model Ts from clubs are on a tour to the Joshua Tree area in Southern Cal. During the day, by the way the weather was just perfect, we saw several wrecked cars but no Model Ts. The only Ts were the seven cars on the tour.
It was a great days touring with no need for the trouble truck though when returned to the hotel one guy wasn’t happy with his front wheel bearings.
Some pictures show up twice while in editing I only see one. Who knows how I managed to mess that up.
The roads into the park are all paved but once in the park we searched out dirt roads. The views were just marvelous, my pictures just don’t do them justice. At the end of most dirt roads were wrecked cars. We thought one was a Dodge but no idea on the rest.
It was a great days touring with no need for the trouble truck though when returned to the hotel one guy wasn’t happy with his front wheel bearings.
Some pictures show up twice while in editing I only see one. Who knows how I managed to mess that up.
Last edited by TonyB on Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:35 am, edited 2 times in total.
Tony Bowker
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour
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Thank you Tony Bawker and the Model T Ford Club of San Diego for putting on such a magnificent tour. I am having a fantastic time, both out on the road and afterwards with all these swell Model T-ers.
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Thank you Tony Bawker and the Model T Ford Club of San Diego for putting on such a magnificent tour. I am having a fantastic time, both out on the road and afterwards with all these swell Model T-ers.
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour
This is a Lincoln.
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Topic author - Posts: 663
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Day 2 proved to be problem day.
We drove over the mountains from 29 Palms to Amboy. There we visited the cafe and saw much Route 66 memorabilia. We have seven Model Ts on the tour and four broke down. Early in day one had ignition problems then on the way from Amboy we had a car loose two tires, then one had dirt in carb and the yet another with generator failure and flat battery.
Great day.
We drove over the mountains from 29 Palms to Amboy. There we visited the cafe and saw much Route 66 memorabilia. We have seven Model Ts on the tour and four broke down. Early in day one had ignition problems then on the way from Amboy we had a car loose two tires, then one had dirt in carb and the yet another with generator failure and flat battery.
Great day.
Tony Bowker
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
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Topic author - Posts: 663
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Karen supplied many more pictures she took on the first day.
Tony Bowker
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Looks like fun Tony! Thank you for the photos.
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
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More fun, ...before, during, and after.
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More fun, ...before, during, and after.
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Flaps anyone? Been there, done that.
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Looks like the weather was nice, good company, and driving my kinda cars in places I would love to go! Thanks for sharing. jw
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Keep it simple and keep a good junk pile if you want to invent something
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Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
Day 3
Today we drove over to Pioneer town which is really a western movie set with two restaurants. We only had five cars today as one had a persistent misfire and the other run out of tires but we still had couple of tubes between us. The meal was perfect, who knew that ribs could be that good.
After Pioneer Town we dropped back down into the town of Joshua Tree and traveled east to the West entrance to Joshua Tree NP and started a steady climb to the highest vehicle accessible point in the park at 5150 ft. From here we could see Palm Springs to the west and Salton Sea to the Southeast.
We lost one more T as it’s convertible top ripped in the wind so he went directly back to the hotel rather than risk more damage.
The trip from Keys View back to the hotel was east, the he only stop was to show our pass to the rangers. At one point I was doing 50mph indicated on these wide open downhill grade.
Everyone made it back to the hotel, all rather glad to get out of the blowing wind, though being in the coupe I didn’t suffer as much as the speedster guys.
Today we drove over to Pioneer town which is really a western movie set with two restaurants. We only had five cars today as one had a persistent misfire and the other run out of tires but we still had couple of tubes between us. The meal was perfect, who knew that ribs could be that good.
After Pioneer Town we dropped back down into the town of Joshua Tree and traveled east to the West entrance to Joshua Tree NP and started a steady climb to the highest vehicle accessible point in the park at 5150 ft. From here we could see Palm Springs to the west and Salton Sea to the Southeast.
We lost one more T as it’s convertible top ripped in the wind so he went directly back to the hotel rather than risk more damage.
The trip from Keys View back to the hotel was east, the he only stop was to show our pass to the rangers. At one point I was doing 50mph indicated on these wide open downhill grade.
Everyone made it back to the hotel, all rather glad to get out of the blowing wind, though being in the coupe I didn’t suffer as much as the speedster guys.
Tony Bowker
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
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Topic author - Posts: 663
- Joined: Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:15 am
- First Name: Tony
- Last Name: Bowker
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- Location: La Mesa, CA
- MTFCA Number: 32
- MTFCA Life Member: YES
- Board Member Since: 2005
Re: Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021
The description of the last day was held up with technical problem downloading the pictures from Karen’s equipment. I of course just use my iPhone for everything videos, pictures, web site updates and the occasional phone call. Thanks Karen for your pictures and persistence getting me the pictures, as with no pictures some guys think it never happened.
Tony Bowker
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.
La Mesa, California
1914 Touring, 1915 Speedster, 1924 Coupe.