Hemmings Daily: Australia's oldest race car heads to United States for two-year exhibit

Of all the reasons one might have for building a race car - besides, you know, to go fast and race - Australians Geoff and Roy Wikner perhaps had the most oblique: They really wanted to build airplanes. Nearly a century later, however, the aircraft manufacturer is long gone but the Model T speedster the Wikners built remains and has made its way to the United States where it will go on display at the Model T Ford Club of America's museum. Then 18 and 20 years old respectively, Geoff and Roy were selling Indian mo [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Wednesday, June 6, 2018 [Wikner Special, Australia's oldest race car, travels to the States for two-year exhibit]( [Wikner Special, Australia's oldest race car, travels to the States for two-year exhibit]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Of all the reasons one might have for building a race car - besides, you know, to go fast and race - Australians Geoff and Roy Wikner perhaps had the most oblique: They really wanted to build airplanes. Nearly a century later, however, the aircraft manufacturer is long gone but the Model T speedster the Wikners built remains and has made its way to the United States where it will go on display at the Model T Ford Club of America's museum. Then 18 and 20 years old respectively, Geoff and Roy were selling Indian mo... 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