The Packard Company provided Fetch with two travelling companions; an elderly magazine reporter who would chronicle the journey, and a rebellious young mechanic, both of whom would prove to be as much hindrance as help.
Fetch and his passengers faced numerous obstacles; the deserts of Nevada and Utah, the great Rocky Mountains, the soggy Iowa plains, the unpredictability of nature, the scarcity of gasoline, and the lack of any passable roads west of Denver. Worse still were the jeers of common folk who dismissed all automobiles as being mere playthings of the rich.
And Fetch wasn’t the only driver making the attempt. A rival Winton motorcar driven by a Vermont doctor had left San Francisco for New York - on a dare. Fetch wasn’t just trying to get across the country; he was trying to overtake the rival Winton automobile and get to New York first.
But the competition had a three-week head start.
Written as historical fiction, FOUR WHEELS GOOD portrays a long-forgotten piece of Americana as a grand adventure.
