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Bill and Jan Hills from North Plains, OR proudly show off their newly acquired PACO bodied speedster. It has a 16-valve Roof OHV powered Model T engine. |
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| Other “new” cars spotted were nifty looking and sporting unique features conjuring up comments like, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Art Reichlin, of Mt.Vernon, WA had just put the finishing touches on yet another new 1928 Chev speedster sporting dual exhausts that crackled like a 4th of July finale when he jazzed the throttle. His red car #480 looks similar to his Buick even down to the Chevy “BowTie’s” cut out on either side of the hood. George Olson and Lyn Neale from Aromas, CA brought their freshly finished, greatly detailed car #88 Model T Speedster dubbed the “Creamsicle” because of the orange chassis and cream colored body. It was a crowd pleaser and got a lot of Locals Brian and Ken Wolff from East Missoula, MT had a lot of help on their car, and everyone that helped signed the side of the car. Our Canadian friends from Alberta brought three speedsters and six lowland tourers. | ||||
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Harry and Rosalie
Lillo from Alberta, Canada and their “Thing of Beauty” is
flanked by fellow Canadian Lowland Tourers in Shoup, ID |
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| There were seven speedsters that DNF’d. Most notable was the sad fate of Charles Reichlin and Michael Santiago of Sedro-Wooley, WA. They were just 7-miles into the run in car #113 when the reverse drum seized from a too tight (?) kevlar band causing the drum to break and one rear axle to snap. Luckily, he had brought his ’27 Touring along and enjoyed the Lowland tour in spite of the bad luck. Jim and Betty Patterson from Veradale, WA had a spline shaft go bad in car #727. Lee and Candy Burgess of Kirkland, WA suffered a brass radiator leak in car #813 that was beyond roadside repair and use. Mary McConnell and R.J. Steed from Gladstone, OR had to file an environmental impact statement in Ravalli County for the amount of oil leaked from #169’s Bendix cover. They threw in the “oil rag” with about fifty miles to go. | ||||
| The optional 3-day spoke runs added about another 500-miles to the speedster run with visits to Shoup, ID over the 7,014ft Lost Trail Pass, Wisdom, MT over the 7,264ft Chief Joseph Pass and Phillipsburg via the 7,260ft Skalkaho Pass. Another option was the return trip from Wisdom over an old freighters road called Gibbon Pass. It was one lane dirt and gravel-strewn road cut from the mountainside right through the middle of the burnt out trees from the great fire 2-years ago. All passes and quaint little towns were visited at your leisure. Usually lunch was on your own, but it seemed like there was always a crowd from our group coming and going to and from the restaurants. Skalkaho Pass was unique for it’s awesome beauty and photo ops at a waterfall, but will be most remembered for its 40 miles of dirt road. Most of it was good, but there were spots where speeds were reduced to 15 MPH or less. We also “panned” for Sapphires at Gem Mountain. This writer developed “Sapphire Fever” and panned his ten-dollar bucket twice looking for the mother lode. | ||||
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