Day 8 - Lincoln Highway Centennial Caravan at DennyGibson.com
Where US-30 crosses I-75 in Ohio, the bridge is marked with Lincoln
Highway emblems. An hour spent chasing electrical gremlins made us a
little late getting here.
After picking up John on Friday, a fellow in a neighboring lane informed
us that we had no brake lights. We stopped for gas a short time later and
wiggled wires with no luck. Back at the hotel, wire wiggling was more
successful and I thought the problem solved. We learned that was not the
case yesterday and spent some time on it this morning. We acquired new
bulbs and some test gear at a nearby parts store and John probed and
measured with no breakthrough. We then headed to a shop (Rex Gilbert Auto
Electric) recommended by the guys at the parts store. No real breakthrough
there, either, but the lights did start working at some point. We left
hoping that professional wire wiggling would last longer than the amateur
kind.
Lunch was to be in a park in Van Wert, Ohio, but rain threatened and it
was moved inside the basement of a church across the street. The new
informative sign in the first picture was dedicated just this morning.
Note the big welcome banner behind the relocated Lincoln Highway marker.
One just like it greeted us at the edge of town.
A cousin of mine lives in Van Wert and a friend lives in between there
and Fort Wayne, Indiana. That's me, Dale, Cousin Tammy, and her husband
Gary by the car. Dale and I did the Indiana Lincoln Highway together in
2009.
At the
Studebaker National Museum, preparations for dinner
were underway when we arrived but we had time to look over the first floor
exhibits. That under seventy-eight hour run was in 1927. We are
considerably over that already. Just before dinner, Indiana LHA President
Jeff Blair spoke to the group from the stairs. After dinner, we explored
the rest of the museum. The gray car with padded door tops is a Packard
Hawk. A 1963 Avanti would have been the ideal fifty year old car to drive
on this trip but my finances were horribly off from the requirements.
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