The route was long considering there was no lunch stop and included many many miles of dirt as well as some drastic elevation changes. Ill let some pictures speak for themselves, I was driving the white number 26 and flew passing some that were not as fast.
The run is usually about 200 miles, this was the 50th annual. Unfortunately we were not given a map and instead a sheet of directions saying left right etc. Not too much help when there aren't many road signs. About half of us wound up down a dead end and had to turn around to try to figure out which way to go. There were several cars that didn't finish.
Thanks for sharing the photos. I participated the event a few times back in the late 1980s when I lived in California. The Endurance Run is one of those important and institutional events for the old car hobby. Hopefully I can attend again soon. Cheers to the Santa Clara Model T Club for keeping this important tradition alive and well.
I built this one in the early 80's. Model A crank and rods, 8:1 Egge pistons, Winfield cam, and one of Jim Culbert's aluminum OHV heads. Ran a Ruxtell 2 speed, and a Nash over drive. My wife and I ran the Santa Clara, Portland, San Diego, and Seattle endurance runs. The one time we didn't get lost, we won the San Diego run! We did those runs for 11 years, until I bought my current RPU.
We were running out of Hollister, CA. Over a 3 mile stretch the drop was 2300 feet on a single lane dirt road with no shoulders.
My brain doesn't do two levers on the steering column, 3 pedals on the floor that aren't "normal" use and a have to use e brake errrrrgh !
Some have 2 levers on the side (rear end and brake), 1 in the middle (aux trans), 4 pedals, 2 levers on the steering and don't forget to pump the fuel tank with air and possibly rockers with oil!
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