July 15th, 2013. 7:57pm On Sunday July 14th, 2013 we left our motel in West Plains, MO. @6:20am. Our destination was Sedan, KS. 293 miles. It was a very hot day for travel. Since a leak had developed in radiator, it first was thought to be due to temperature and pushing coolant out overflow tube. Leak has progressively gotten worse. I decided to put an overflow tank on the car, hoping it would solve the problem. At a gas stop in Mt Vernon, MO., a man came to look at the car. When I told him about the leak getting worse, he worked in a radiator shop and he found that the leak was running down the outside of the overflow tube. We continued on to Sedan, where we spent the night with Jim & Ruby ... read more

July 12th, 2013 10:18 pm CDT We are getting feed back that entries and photos can't be found. Mae & I are still learning how to save and post on the blog, I found that some entries were still in the saved box and not published. I went into the blog site like anyone following our trip would and every entry was there. The first 10 photos are there, yesterday's photos should post by 7/13/2013. Day 3 started out on the cool side, we had sunshine all day, the high being in the low 80's. It was a beautiful day for traveling through the mountains of WV & KY. We were glad to see the flat lands of western KY & IL. Today's travel covered 367 miles, starting out from West Liberty, KY. and ending in ... read more

July 10th, 2013 Today our trip started. We left @ 6:20am arrived in Elkins, WV @ 6:00pm. The day started out with a send off by son Dennis, grandson Austin and a friend Hoppy Hoy. Our granddaughter made a sign for the back of our car "PA to California or bust". The car ran super until the unexpected happened, we ran out of gas 121.4 miles into the trip (12.77 mpg), The car always gets 20 mpg. A trucker stopped, he volunteered to drive his rig one mile to gas station and fill our gas can and drive back to us, air gas mixture adjustment was 1/4 turn too rich. Next tank of gas was run with air gas mixture turned 1/4 turn leaner, result was 18.9 mpg, car ran very good. Next encounter was a ... read more

June 30th, 2013 Just got home from Church. I am now using our IPad which we have to learn how to use the Apple system. At almost 76 years old, this new technology is a challenge. To practice entering to our blog, I will give a little background about my wife and me. It all started in 1954 at the end of 10th grade. I was held back in 7th grade because of being in the hospital and missed the last 3 months of school. My wife went to a country school and was put ahead a grade. Then the country schools only had 8 grades so we ended up in the same class. We started dating by the end of 10th grade. Here is where the old cars started as I had a 1931 Model ... read more

June 27th, 2013 Getting ready for the Canyonland IV MTFCI Tour, in Kanab, Ut. I'm a last minute kind of a guy, so I have until July 9th,2013 to get our 1913 Model T Ford ready for 7,000 to 8,000 mile round trip. I guess some of us work better under pressure. Checked the rear axle bearing sleeves for starters and found the axles were from the bad batch unheat treated axle shafts about 4-5 years ago. I called in my main Model T mechanic, Ernie Spittler and the Ruxtell rear had to be completely disassembled to replace the 2 axles & the 2 bearing sleeves. Working parts of 3 days the Ruxtell rear is together and back under car. The Rocky Mt brake lining had to be replaced, last year I bought a brake lining,riveting ... read more