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1915 Sea to Sea trip began in Coney Island New York, and was to go to San Francisco California, these 4 factory backed cars were to see which made a better car by merely surviving the road conditions. The closest is a Packard, the other black car is a Studebaker. The white cars aren't lableled or indicated, and I couldn't find anything on the internet about this competition. The destination was the 1915 PanPacific Exposition in San Fran
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Tom Mix, famous cowboy movie star, had a very lazy horse.. . it's riding in the trailer
Notice the solid tires on the tractor are cross drilled to soften the ride
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Shwinn Autocycle
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photo had no info on what she's riding , or what year
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the 1892 Haynes car, the second maker of cars in the USA, the first was Dureya
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In 1915 Ray Conklin, president of the New York Motorbus Company, left Long Island for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Accompanied by a party of twelve, they travelled in an elaborately outfitted bus, complete with a kitchen, beds, hot and cold water, well-stocked book shelves and a rooftop garden.
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The McFarland wrecked at Indy
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There was a lot of drinking going on when they decorated whatever is under the Moose and Deer heads
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Above is Joe Matson's Corbin at the 1908 Vanderbilt and below was the 1910 Vanderbilt cup race
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