1|5|2010 110-year-old duryea car makes trip temporary home
A 110-year-old, built-in-Peoria, Duryea automobile rolled through a window at the Peoria NEXT Innovation Center building early Friday morning.
There were no injuries and no damage to either the automobile or the Peoria NEXT Innovation Center because, fortunately, the event was planned and the 11-foot tall, 54-inch wide, double-thick window pane had been removed by Grawey Glass Company workers before the historic automobile's entry into the building's lobby.
"Got it," shouted Mike Rucker, of the Peoria Regional Museum Society, the group that owns the Duryea, as the car's rear axle barely slipped through the narrow space. It looked for a moment that it might not make it. "We're in."
There was applause.
"That was close," said John Parks, the president of the museum society, who helped roll the Duryea into the building. "Made it by a fraction of an inch."
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