Wells Coyote Driven by Gary Lee Kanawyer in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, June 29 - July 4, 1998
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First held in 1915, Colorado's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is known as the "Race to the Clouds." Cars climb 4,270 feet over the 12.42-mile race course. Drivers negotiate 156 turns along the twisting mountain route. Few of those turns are protected by guard rails, and some have drop-offs exceeding 1,000 feet.
First held in 1915, Colorado's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is known as the "Race to the Clouds." Cars climb 4,270 feet over the 12.42-mile race course. Drivers negotiate 156 turns along the twisting mountain route. Few of those turns are protected by guard rails, and some have drop-offs exceeding 1,000 feet.
Artifact
Slide (Photograph)
Subject Date
29 June 1998-04 July 1998
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2011.125.22
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Photographs Gift of John G. Clark.
Material
Film Phototransparency
Technique
Photographic processes
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in
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