'59 Plymouth Forum

THURSDAY JULY 17th Show time at the WPC National in Farmington PA. They started loading the field at 7am and cars kept coming until about 10am. Most of the cars were already at the meet but several more showed up this morning. By noon at least ninety cars were on the field and it was warming up. Fel...

WEDNESDAY JULY 16TH When we arrived on Sunday evening, we had a flat tire on the trailer about a quarter mile from the motel. Today was a free day, so we decided to go into Uniontown to get the tire repaired or replaced. When we took the tire off there was a small round hole in the tread area. The t...

IT’S TUESDAY, IT MUST BE PITTSBURGH We left at 8am this morning on a bus tour to Pittsburgh. Our first stop was the Frick Art & Historical Center, a fascinating complex of museums and historical buildings located on over five acres of lawns and gardens in Pittsburgh's residential East End. The C...

MONDAY JULY 14th Greetings from the Summit Inn near Farmington PA. The weather was much better today for our driving tour to Fallingwater. This is a home in nature, and one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most widely acclaimed works, and was designed in 1935 for the family of Pittsburg department store owne...

SUNDAY JULY 13th We retured once again this morning to Carlisle, me driving the Belvedere and Merle driving the pickup and trailer. We left the pickup and trailer in Lowes parking lot in Carlisle, and continued on into the show. Not as many cars today but it was awards day, and I knew I had won a ce...

SATURDAY JULY 12th Very warm today, did most of our looking before noon, then stayed in the shade and visited with a lot of folks. These first photos show how much area is covered with show cars, vendors and swap spaces. It is several acres and nearly impossible to look at everything, even in two an...

FRIDAY JULY 11th SHOW TIME! We were up early this morning and unloaded the Belvy and drove to Carlisle arriving about 7:30 along with about a thousand others. Got the car parked and hit the swap meet trying to beat the heat. Dan Morton and the Dutch contingent arrived about 10:30. Only about 2000 ca...

THURSDAY JULY 10th Greetings from Carlisle. Yes we made it! We arrived at the show sight at 2:30pm with 3028 miles on our trip odometer. I registered the car and we looked around a bit and found a 59 Savoy four door already there, but no one around. We drove on to Mechanicsburg and checked into our ...

WEDNESDAY JULY 9th Greetings from Columbus, OH. Today we traveled from Kansas City to Columbus, stopping in St Louis to see the Gateway Arch. We went up to the top. riding in a very small gondola that carries five people. There is eight in a series, and one series in each leg. 008.JPG 007.JPG 006.JP...

TUESDAY JULY 8th Greetings from Kansas City MO. Today we traveled from Arvada CO to Kansas City MO, stopping along the way at Ellis Kansas and visited the Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home museum. P1000194.JPG P1000195.JPG P1000196.JPG P1000197.JPG Tomorrow morning we continue east to St Louis and bey...

MONDAY JULY 7th continued.... Afrer crossing the continental divide at 11,600 ft, we arrived in Arvada CO and went directly to the famous author Clive Cussler's museum. John Quinn, fellow 59er met us there and joined us for the tour. John lives about ten minutes from the museum. P1000189.JPG P100019...

MONDAY JULY 7th Greetings from Arvada CO. Today we toured the Gateway auto museum. This is a new museum owned by John Hendricks, the founder of the Discovery Channel. He feels cars are art, and should be displayed as such, and has he ever accomplished that! This is the the resort he is building in G...

SUNDAY JULY 6th Greetings from Grand Junction CO. We didn’t take any pictures today because it was hazy, probably due to the many fires out west. We traveled hiway 6 from Provo to I 70 and there were places I would have liked to have taken some photos, but the road was under construction in many are...

SATURDAY JULY 5th Greetings from Twin Falls ID. This is the bridge that crosses the Snake River canyon from I 84 into the city. P1000151.JPG Looking up the canyon toward the spot that Evel Knievel attemted to jump the canyon on Sept 8, 1974. P1000153.JPG A telephoto shot shows the dirt ramp built fo...

FRIDAY JULY 4th
I loaded the car in the trailer this afternoon and we will be pulling out at 8am in the morning. We will travel around Mt Hood and pickup I 84 at Hood River OR. Our first overnight will be in Twin Falls ID.