New Tillamook County Fair’S Pig-N-Ford Race, Since 1925 (Thanks Kim!)

 The Pig-N-Ford T hits speeds upward of forty mph, petty to a greater extent than than frame rails amongst a drivetrain in addition to a buckboard seat, precisely they laid out parked at the starting line, engines off.

The ­drivers draw upwards along the track’s outer fence, patch the pigs are held inwards the infield inwards a row of crates.

When the starter fires his pistol, the drivers sprint across the track, snatch the squealing pigs from their bins, crank-start their Model Ts (holding the squirming sausage inwards i arm), in addition to hop aboard earlier the automobile stalls. 

At the cease of each lap, racers slide to a stop, kill their engines, run to the bins to telephone substitution their pigs for fresh ones, in addition to outset all over.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 race lasts 3 laps.

Drivers are an elite group, a motorbike gang that carries pigs. The race is express to 10 cars, in addition to all the racers are members of the Pig-N-Ford Association. The president (we’re non making this up) is Punk Duns­worth, 74, a social club fellow member for 55 years.

the Hurliman trouble solid unit of measurement T has been passed downwards for to a greater extent than than sixty years.

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