The Perils of Model A Route Planning

Modern technology has made vacation planning a breeze. Just type in your home address into google maps and then the places you would like to go. In a matter of seconds it will generate all the roads that you need to take, turn by turn including every interstate exit -but wait you’re driving a Model A Ford! You want nothing to do with interstate traffic.

Let’s get out the GPS. Again enter your location and destination. This time enter “avoid interstates”. Now your route looks like a spiderweb and it will take you three days to go fifty miles. So it’s back to the low tech atlas. Here’s a nice scenic route that will get you where you want to go but uh- oh, there’s a 6,750 foot mountain range to climb, not the best choice for a Model A pulling a trailer.

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Here’s a math question for you brainy types. How fast must a Model A travel into a fifty mph head  wind before the curvature of the front fenders create enough lift to bring the front wheels off the ground? Thankfully Henry Ford had the foresight to equip the cars with only forty horsepower engines, from our experience it felt like we were getting close to liftoff at about 35. Had it not been for our little box trailers acting as anchors we might have got off the ground. Instead it was like driving a kite. By lunch the drivers were white eyed but persevered to afternoon and called it a day. In fairness even with gale force wind, it was a beautiful drive.

We camped along the gorge with several wind surfers who told us this was considered one of the worlds best places for the sport. We can tell you wind surfing looks like a lot of fun in the water but we don’t recommend you do it in the road.