Joshua Tree Tour - April 2021

[TonyB]

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.

Ts lined up on a dirt road

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.

Aluminum body?

Was a saloon?

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.

[NorthSouth]

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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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[Dan Haynes]

This is a Lincoln.

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[TonyB]

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.

Sign for cafe

Coupe by Route 66 sign

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.

[TonyB]

Karen supplied many more pictures she took on the first day.

Mtfcsd President with his 1921 touring

Mtfcsd tour chair with his 1925 touring

[Dallas Landers]

Looks like fun Tony! Thank you for the photos.

[NorthSouth]

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More fun, ...before, during, and after.
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[Dan McEachern]

Flaps anyone? Been there, done that.

[John Warren]

Looks like the weather was nice, good company, and driving my kinda cars in places I would love to go! Thanks for sharing. jw

[NorthSouth]

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Perfect Weather !!!

[TonyB]

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.

Tourest trap

Movie set

Five Ts in Pioneer Town

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.

The Salton Sea is there !!!

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.

Drivers at Keys View

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.

[TonyB]

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.