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Cemetery -- where Winton is buried -- and in Ashtabula
for lunch. Our fuel economy was about 18.6 miles
per gallon, and, including all our stops, our average
speed for the day worked out to about 10 miles per
hour. ��That night, Wake, Holcombe and others were doing some maintenance on the 1899 on 19th St., outside the Avalon Hotel in downtown Erie,. A passing car slowed, |
and the driver shouted "Get a horse." ��Without a pause, Wake shouted back: "The horse died. We're stuck with this." ��Only 600 miles to go. ��NEXT WEEK - An overheating air pump threatens to end the journey to Manhattan several hundred miles short. |
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The Winton Centennial, which included this 1907
Winton driven by David Holcombe, curator of the
Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in
Cleveland, followed two-lane roads to New York
and uncovered an overwhelming incentive to stay
to the right. ���photo by CHRISTOPHER JENSEN |