America's first coast to coast road trip 1903

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No map and a vehicle full of fuel and oil cans. A $63 day trip in a 2 cylinder, 20 horsepower 1903 Winton.

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The coast-to-coast road trip, that American essential, turns 120 this year. In 1903, Horatio Jackson and Sewall Crocker became the first people ever to drive a car from one side of the U.S. all the way to the other.
Cars were an exciting novelty at the time, and their numbers were exploding — from 8,000 in 1900 to 32,920 in 1903 — but many still considered the “horseless carriage” a passing fad. There were few suitable roads, let alone a nationwide road network.

The coast-to-coast road trip is 120 years old

In 1903, a doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. The first coast-to-coast road trip in history took 63 days and cost $8,000.

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American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age​