{"id":14829,"date":"2013-11-01T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:50:03","slug":"model-a-aims-to-set-new-cross-country-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/model-a-aims-to-set-new-cross-country-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Model A Aims to Set New Cross Country Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade is aiming to set a new world record as he drives against the clock from New York to California in his 1930 Ford Model A, paying homage to H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker, the first to drive coast-to-coast across America 110 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australian motoring enthusiast Rod and his co-driver Michael Flanders will travel through ten states as they attempt the 2,947-mile drive in under 60 hours. Their planned route will take them along the Lincoln Highway, the pioneering American transcontinental route championed by Henry Ford\u2014and part of Jackson and Cocker\u2019s original crossing\u2014as well as down sections of iconic Route 66.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will mark the start of their non-stop journey, which begins on Columbus Day (October 14) by filling a bottle with water from the Atlantic Ocean, just off Staten Island. The water will then be poured into the Pacific Ocean when the team arrives at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. That\u2019s when the clock will stop and a new world record will be set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rod said: \u201cIt\u2019s symbolic that our adventure starts on the same day that Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the New World is celebrated. We hope this great explorer will be looking down on us as we embark on an incredible journey through this beautiful country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cOcean to Ocean Challenge\u2013America\u201d will raise much needed money for the American Kidney Fund. With kidney disease affecting Rod\u2019s wife and daughter, he has raised thousands for Kidney Health Australia, and now is looking to support kidney sufferers in the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information on the Ocean to Ocean Challenge, the Vintage Adventurer and the latest updates, visit www.vintageadventurer.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade is aiming to set a new world record as he drives against the clock from New York to California in his 1930 Ford Model A, paying homage to H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker, the first to drive coast-to-coast across America 110 years ago. Australian motoring enthusiast Rod and his co-driver Michael Flanders will travel through ten states as they attempt the 2,947-mile drive in under 60 hours. 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