Santa Clara Valley Model T Ford Club Endurance Run and Lowland Tour June 2011

June 12, 2011. In early May, it looked like it was going to be a light year for entries in the Endurance Run and the Lowland Tour.. We began to think maybe 20 speedsters and 25 Lowland entries would be about it. Boy, were we fooled. We ended up with 37 speedsters registered, and 35 actually hit the road, and the final count on the Lowland Tour was 55 cars. The start was moved back to the Agnews location this year so we had a start on a tree-lined street instead of a tall building lined street. We covered a lot of ground on the speedster run, from Agnews to Skyline to the ocean to Skyline to Redwood City for lunch to Niles to Sunol to Calveras to Sierra Road to the finish on Laurelwood in Santa Clara. We had overcast skies to start with, some fog and mist up on Skyline, lots of bicycles everywhere and a beautiful sunny afternoon. 28 speedsters completed the full run. We lost 3 to mechanical problems, 2 did not make it to the starting line and 4 bypassed checkpoint #3. The Lowland cars had an easy flatland tour from Santa Clara to Redwood City and back. I did hear that the loop through the Stanford Campus got tangled up with Stanford graduation.  I must say the lunch at Towne Ford in Redwood City was one fine feast, tri-tip, sausages, vegetables, beans, salad, rolls and fresh baked cookies right out of the oven. We all needed a nap after that. It was a great day, we all had fun, and are already looking forward to next year. Bob Meneely

Check-In and Inspection

BBQ

Starting Line

Lowland Tour

Lunch Stop

Finish Line

1st Place Klay Schott and Jeff Taylor	2nd Place Don and Alex Azevedo	3rd Place Colin Feichtmeir and C. J. Carlson

Some photos provided by Kevin Greenberg and Rod Mathews  Video by Ivan Jorgensen  

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