Day 124 - Pontiac to Watseka - Two Far 2021 - Sooo... Far

August 10, 2021

Day 124 - Pontiac to Watseka

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We started our day by riding into downtown Pontiac. The town really embraces it's location on Route 66. The ACA Route 66 route goes through the town as well.

I'm not sure about this "RV". It's parked outside the Route 66 museum.

There are little car and truck models all around town.

The town also has numerous murals downtown.

After cruising around the courthouse square, we visited the Pontiac Oakland Auto Museum. The backstory is that a collector of all things Pontiac thought that Pontiac, IL would be a good place for his collection. He approached the town leadership about the idea in 2010 and the museum opened in 2011.

Pontiac started as the Pontiac Buggy Company. This is a sleigh from the 1890's. According to the information sign, it is the only one of this model known to exist.

The two oldest cars in the museum were Oaklands, made in Canada.

This 1929 Oakland was designed for the golfer.

I can think of a couple of our followers who might want one of these!

1959 Tri-Power 8-cylinder engine. The Pontiac Tri-Power was introduced in 1957 and used 3 Rochester 2-bbl carbs. It became so popular that the term "Tri-Power" became synonymous for any 3 carb setup.

Not a car, but I had fun remembering the things on the list.

1970 Firebird. The sticker in the rear window listed its price at just over $4,000.00

1978 Pontiac Phoenix hatchback with camper option. Kerry said it's not hard to see why Pontiac is no more.

We left Pontiac with 55 miles to ride and the temperature already 90 degrees with Florida-like humidity. Fortunately, we had a good tailwind and no hills. We were on IL-116 most of the way - it was a very nice road with very little traffic.