West Highland Museum, Lochaber (Credit: VisitScotland/Kenny Lam)
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West Highland Museum, Lochaber
Image provided by Smartify
Ford Model Ts Up Ben Nevis
By Chris Robinson
West Highland Museum, LochaberImage provided by Smartify
This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2022 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the people who live, work and visit here.
Listen to the incredible backstory behind the Bronze Model T Ford car - a perfect replica which stands just outside the West Highland Museum and remembers an impossible feat which scaled the heights of Ben Nevis.
...it was the first time to our knowledge that a car has been cast from the original parts of the car anywhere in the world.