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Model T Fords Coming to Mercer, Lawrence
HARLANSBURG, Pa. -- Approximately 25 Model T Fords will visit Mercer and Lawrence counties June 12 as part of the third annual Ocean to Ocean Reunion Tour. Stops include the Harlansburg Station Museum of Transportation, Mercer and Volant.
The stop in Harlansburg will be at about 11 a.m. Model T enthusiasts from as far away as Canada, Virginia, New York and Arkansas will participate, according to Ken Hummel, tour coordinator.
The reunion brings together Model T enthusiasts who participated in the Centennial Tour of 2009 when 55 Model Ts traveled from New York City to Seattle, Hummel said. The 2009 tour commemorated the running of the 1909 Ocean to Ocean Endurance Run won by a Model T Ford. The 1909 contest, sponsored by millionaire Robert Guggenheim, was part of a publicity campaign for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle that year.
The 2012 reunion tour will be headquartered in Meadville, Pa., today through June 14. Traveling between 30 and 35 miles an hour, the Model Ts will stop in various northwestern Pennsylvania communities during their four-day stay. “We travel between 100 and 110 miles per day, stopping at different Ford dealerships in the morning for coffee and donuts,” Hummel said. “Our travel takes us on the back roads where there is little or no traffic.”
Today’s tour includes the towns of Edinboro and North East, where the enthusiasts will visit the various wineries plus the Interstate Antique Mall. Visits to the Drake Well Museum, Cross Creek Resort, Oil Creek State Park and the towns of Oil City and Titusville are all part of Wednesday’s tour.
On Thursday, the Model Ts will be driven around Conneaut Lake and through the communities of Jamestown and Greenville, with stops at the Greenville Railroad Museum and Pymatuning Reservoir.
Automobile enthusiasts are invited to view and possibly get a ride in a Model T at any of the stops listed. “There are different horseless carriage clubs across the country, and we love touring through the back roads,” Hummel said.
For more information on the Lawrence County visit, call the Harlansburg Museum of Transportation at 724 652 9002. Information on the Ocean to Ocean Reunion Tour is available online.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.