UPDATE - A DRIVE HOME: LeMay Museum, Tacoma To Detroit Auto Show- Chapter Two - On The Road With Steve Purdy
A DRIVE HOME – Chapter 2
Three old cars go from Tacoma to Detroit in the dead of winter
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Senior Editor
The Auto Channel
Michigan Bureau
Photos By Bob Giles
The caravan of three vintage cars left their retirement home in Tacoma, Washington a couple days ago right on schedule for the cross-country drive to their ancestral home in Detroit. While that may sound like a risky project it really is well planned. A cadre of volunteer mechanics at the LeMay Museum, America’s Car Museum, prepared the cars well and Michelin shod them all with new snow tires.
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Snow tires were a great idea. Within hours as they headed south toward Portland the group hit snow that became more serious nearing Mt. Hood. The roads were littered with stranded motorists and even our intrepid old cars gave some quarter but the grizzled veterans soldiered on to the first night’s stay in Bend, Oregon.
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I join the drive today as the caravan leaves Boise and turns south to the next stop in Salt Lake City. We’ll start out on clear highways but plenty of snow here makes it looks like a winter wonderland with the ribbons of highway passing through a monochromatic landscape of pure white snow.
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On The Road With Steve Purdy - From Lemay Museum Tacoma To 2016 Detroit Auto Show
Chapter One - December 28, 2015Chapter Two - December 29, 2015
Chapter Three - December 30, 2015
Chapter Four - December 31, 2015
Chapter Five - January 2, 2016
Chapter Six Final Chapter - January 10, 2016
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