Model A Aims to Set New Cross Country Record

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. Their planned route will take them along the Lincoln Highway, the pioneering American transcontinental route championed by Henry Ford—and part of Jackson and Cocker’s original crossing—as well as down sections of iconic Route 66.