- November 18th, 2003, 12:00 am
#718
Model Ts, to be more specific.
They were removed when White Water Falls was built, and WWF also uses the old station as a que house.
Carowinds has had a history of Car Rides. You can't forget about the Carolina Turnpike Speedway Cars which were not removed to long ago, just over a decade.
I Like antique cars, particularly when they have a nicely landscpaed course. The ones at BGW have a good setting, and the ones at SFOG did have a nice course until they moved them up to Carousel Hill when Georgia Cyclone was built.
If the world were made of Sugar, Carowinds would buy some of the new antique cars from Chance. They run on electricity and don't need as much care to work properly, plus you don't have the spell of gasoline. (However that does add character to the old Arrow ones!)
CarowindsZone, Arrow used to have a list of all the rides they've manufactured on there website. I'm not sure if it is there now since S&S took over, but there were some pretty interesting ones. They've nearly built every ride you'll find at an amusement park at some point in time!
Here's a picture from Mr. Rutherford's excellent website:
<a href='http://members.aol.com/k9660r/jalopies.html' target='_blank'>http://members.aol.com/k9660r/jalopies.html</a>
(You can also see Carowinds RR #2 pulling into the Crossroads Train Station in the background)