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trucking.. not for the faint of heart

found on https://www.facebook.com/pages/White-Trucking/164064040275794

The Mountain Auto Line, between stagecoach and bus tours

Rim of The World Drive opened up the great outdoors to a lot of people in Southern California, and this auto line took vacationers and tourists up into the Sierra Nevada mountains

The bus like vehicle is a White Motor Company truck. pre 1921

Photo from Westways, the AAA club magazine of Southern California

the American Truck Historical Association was at Speedfest again this year, a cool display of Kenworths and White rigs

if you have to trailer a hot rod, do it with a cool transported like this old White

Hot rod 1956 White in Brazil, before the internet made getting parts easy!

thanks to Ulisses for sharing!

the NAS North Island Speedfest invited the San Diego chapter of the American Truck Historic Society, these 4 cool rigs were great to look over!

the White is a 1941 that Gilmore owned originally. Posted here http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/09/1941-white-semi-tractor-trailer-that.html

the red white and black is a 1955 Kenworth

this orange and black is a 1971 Kenworth

and this brown Kenworth is a 1969... I posted a couple photos last weekend of it, Jeff bought this at age 19, and worked with it for the next 20 years, getting 3 million miles under and behind him... he then converted it with the only stipulations from his wife that it have a toilet and a shower. They're both happy!

http://www.aths.org/ for the website of the American Truck Historical Society
and they get together for convoys occasionally like this Route 66 news item in the San Berdo Sun Newspaper article: http://www.sbsun.com/ci_21552862

the Desert Classic, 1908-1914... the Los Angeles to Pheonix race

old US 80 started its life as the course of the wild 1913 Great Desert Race from Los Angeles to Phoenix. In preparation for the race, Locke took Barney Oldfield over the road to show him how to navigate rough desert terrain.

Front page news, as so many publicity stunt car races were, imagine what passed for news in 1908-1914... not much. Publicity garnered by car companies getting stunts accomplished by the hardy and stamina having tough bastards that could hang in through exposure to all sorts of weather (open cars with no tops) and no roads, well this was nearly hero stuff in that age, and heroes making their way across your country is heady stuff that sold papers... everyone came out a winner. The drivers made a couple thousand per win.

That is why the 1908 New York to San Fran, the Paris to Peking, and the New York to Paris were etched in the cultural knowledge... new things that cars were, plus publicity, added to entertainment and a competition.. it's about as close to amazing as it got in 1908-1914. The times were full of historical firsts, heroes, and miracles. The first human flight in an airplane, the first roads, the first cars, etc etc

The first race was won by a steam powered White. The vehicles White made were so good, one was bought by the White House for President Taft's limo, and Buffalo Bill had one also.

above on the far right is Barney Oldfield, and he is driving the car he took to 4th place in the Indy 500 just months before. He won the Desert Classic with it.