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- Driver Tom Fetch in "Old Pacific" on the Cross-Country Trip Sponsored by Packard Motor Car Company, 1903 - In 1903, two men drove a Packard Model F nicknamed "Old Pacific" from San Francisco to New York. It was the second automobile to complete the epic journey. Few roads stretched west of the Mississippi, and if the men encountered a problem, they had to solve it themselves. This photograph shows a desolate landscape, the dust-covered Packard, and E.T. "Tom" Fetch.
- 1903
- Collections - Artifact
Driver Tom Fetch in "Old Pacific" on the Cross-Country Trip Sponsored by Packard Motor Car Company, 1903
In 1903, two men drove a Packard Model F nicknamed "Old Pacific" from San Francisco to New York. It was the second automobile to complete the epic journey. Few roads stretched west of the Mississippi, and if the men encountered a problem, they had to solve it themselves. This photograph shows a desolate landscape, the dust-covered Packard, and E.T. "Tom" Fetch.
- Packard Motor Car Co. Advertisement, "Record of the Transcontinental Trip of the Old Pacific," 1903 - In 1903, two men drove a Packard Model F nicknamed "Old Pacific" from San Francisco to New York. Packard kept news-watchers informed during the two month overland trip. This ad from August 1903 provides a brief record of the car's progress. "Old Pacific" rolled into New York City on August 21. It was the second automobile to complete the epic journey.
- August 12, 1903
- Collections - Artifact
Packard Motor Car Co. Advertisement, "Record of the Transcontinental Trip of the Old Pacific," 1903
In 1903, two men drove a Packard Model F nicknamed "Old Pacific" from San Francisco to New York. Packard kept news-watchers informed during the two month overland trip. This ad from August 1903 provides a brief record of the car's progress. "Old Pacific" rolled into New York City on August 21. It was the second automobile to complete the epic journey.