Setting off from White Plains, New York on June 13th, 54 vintage Model Ts will drive west along nearly 4,000 miles of this country’s oldest highways, to reach Seattle in celebration of the 2009 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Centennial. The re-enactment of the 1909 Ocean-to-Ocean Endurance race that marked the opening of the A-Y-P will be one of the highlights of this year’s centennial celebration, and should not be missed! The participants, who hail from all over the country, will be traversing the route (or as close as possible) used by the original racers and will “finish” at Drumheller Fountain on the UW Campus on July 12th, 2009.
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image: © University of Washington Special Collections, Image #AYP147
