Coast to Coast in 48 Hours, Documentary, 1929 
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◊ 2024-01-26 18:42 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Background vehicles: ![]() ![]() Trains from Pennsylvania Railroad and Santa Fe Railroad: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() -- Last edit: 2024-01-26 22:18:31 |
◊ 2024-01-28 11:39 |
Aircraft at https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Coast_to_Coast_in_48_Hours . |
◊ 2024-01-28 14:13 |
Across the entire United States in 48 hours by car in 1929? Is that possible even today? The very first road trip across America was in 1903, carried out by two men in a 1903 Winton touring car. They started on the West coast and the exursion took 63 days, 12 hours, and 30 seconds. In part due to very few service stations in the West coast, frequent breakdowns which required parts from Winton's factory needing to be shipped by train, bad weather, and non-existent roads. Despite this, they still beat two other teams; one for Oldsmobile, using a brand-new Curved Dash, and Packard, using a Model C nicknamed "Old Pacific" and both teams had full backing and support from their respective companies. The trip slowly got easier as it went on; in California, self-propelled cars were practically non-existent to the point where the Winton was the first car a lot of people had ever seen. -- Last edit: 2024-01-28 15:51:32 |
◊ 2024-01-28 22:35 |
https://waynoka.org/tat-transcontinental-air-transport/ The current record for New York to Los Angeles by car is 27 hours 25 minutes. This is only possible by traveling at illegal speeds. |