1904 Winton Two Cylinder Touring

This 1904 model 20hp Rear-Entrance Tonneau is one of the final two-cylinder Wintons. The current owner acquired it from a British owner who had the car officially dated as 1904 for the annual London-to-Brighton Emancipation Run. The car experienced engine trouble during the Run and it was returned to the United States and entrusted to Charlie Wake, a great-grandson of Alexander Winton, to rebuild the engine. The owner then drove it from Indiana to the New York Adirondacks to commemorate Jackson and Crocker's 1903 cross-country feat.

With the engine returned to running order, Wake received a call from Edsel Ford III, Henry's great-grandson, challenging him to a re-enactment of the Grosse Pointe match race. Since the 1904 car was nothing like the car that competed against Ford's 999, Ford Motor Company constructed two replicas for the reenactment instead.

This Winton is finished in bright magenta color and the seats are upholstered in matching buttoned leather, while a pyramid-pattern black rubber mat lines the floor. The instrumentation is minimal with just a 60-mph Jones speedometer (sans odometer) and a 30 psi Ashton pressure gauge. It had a surrey top and a bulb horn.

By Daniel Vaughan | Dec 2021