Description
by
Arthur Lyon (Author),
Larry Lyon (Editor)
Imagine setting out on a road trip in a 1929 Ford Model A Roadster, with the stated goal of traveling from Manhattan to Mexico and Central America, after only a week’s worth of preparation. This is exactly what brothers Arthur Lyon and Joe Lyon Jr. did on March 23, 1930. The Lyons acquired some camping gear, studied a few maps, and mounted in the car’s rear seat a fifty-five-gallon oil drum equipped with a gas feed for extra fuel.
The story related here is replete with the brothers’ accounts of the challenges the young men faced on their epic journey, including encounters with a fascinating cast of characters–and unforgettable brushes with fate such as a Mexican freight train that nearly ran them and their car off the rails. The amazing 1930 journey of the young Lyon brothers can be seen as the centerpiece of a larger story, of a pair of lives lived out not just as brothers but as partners in an emerging automobile age.
Author Biography
Sally Denton is an award-winning journalist and author, most recently of The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World.
Number of Pages: 224Dimensions: 0.8 x 10.2 x 8.5 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: August 18, 2020
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