Vintage car rally stop make 'pit stop' at Iowa 80 museum

The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum

The Trucker News Services

9/12/2008

WALCOTT, Iowa  — The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum has announced  that it has been chosen as a lunch stop by MotorIoway 1000,  an Iowa vintage vehicle road rally.

The lunch stop will be held on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Interstate 80 and& Exit 284 here, and is the only Quad Cities area stop for the tour.

 The general public is encouraged to come to the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum for the chance to view over 80 vintage cars, trucks and other specialty vehicles entries.

“MotorIoway’s stop at our museum is the perfect fit.  When you combine our antique trucks on display with all of the vehicles in the road rally, the general public will have a chance to view over 120 vintage vehicles in one stop.  This event also helps us further our mission of celebrating trucking history,” Delia Moon Meier, Iowa 80 senior vice president, said.  

This is the 13th MotorIoway 1000 tour.

The vintage vehicle tour will be held Sept. 21-27 and is one of the largest events of its type in North America.

The tour will start in Coralville-Riverside, finish in Springfield, Ill., and visit nine other communities via “pit-stops,” lunch stops or overnight stays.

Vehicles and drivers will be from five and over 50 Iowa communities.

This year’s theme, “The Presidential Tour,” salutes the four presidents that were born or spent a major portion of their lives along the tour route.

The first pit stop is West Branch, Iowa, birthplace of Herbert Hoover and site of his grave and presidential library. The first overnight is Galena, Ill., where Ulysses S. Grant lived for many years. Continuing through northern Illinois, stops will be made in Dixon and Tampico, birthplace and hometown of Ronald Reagan. The tour will culminate with a two-day stay in Springfield as a time to celebrate Abraham Lincoln as well as to participate in the Route 66 Mother Road Festival.

The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum displays over 35 antique trucks dating as far back as 1910, and also includes a movie theatre and gift store.  A donation is requested for admission.  The museum is also available to host group tours.  More information about the museum can be found at www.iowa80truckingmuseum.com.