A 1918 Willys-Overland Country Club Model 90

My great-grandparents Otto and Rosalie owned this 1918 Willys-Overland Country Club Model 90, which they drove from St. Louis to Los Angeles when they moved to California in 1920 or 1921, not long after the Spanish Flu ended. They were in their early twenties. I don't know the exact route they took, or if they made the trip several times or only once. I don't know where they encountered the deep snow shown in this photo, but other photos show them traversing rugged roads or visiting national parks. As a Willys advertisement stated at the time, "the youth and beauty of the land are adopting this new Overland as their very own."

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A 1985 Trek 470

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