Two for the Road, in a '62 Travelette Comprising the only two-woman team in the Great Race, Tabetha Salsbury and Kacy Smith turned heads whenever they rolled into town. "We were two females in this big, gigantic truck, and you could see the reaction on people's faces," said Ms. Salsbury who, along with Ms. Smith, shepherded a 1962 International Harvester Travelette three-quarter-ton pickup truck around the Great Lakes in the event, a controlled-speed endurance contest that concluded on Sunday. We had huge support and a large following. The duo placed 59th out of about 100 entrants and 10th in the rookie class. The 2,300-mile race, confined to vehicles from the 1969 model year or earlier, began in Traverse City, Mich., on June 23 and concluded on Sunday at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. Traditionally limited to the contiguous 48 states, the race this year routed drivers around the Great Lakes, crossing once into Canada. Participants were required to reach checkpoints on a specific schedule. Ms. Salsbury, 24, the driver, covered up to 300 miles daily in the Spray Green and White Cap White four-door truck, which weighs about 4,175 pounds and averages roughly 9 miles a gallon. International Harvester began building trucks and farm equipment around the turn of the last century. It introduced the crew cab in the late "50s. This was the first such race for Ms. Salsbury, 25, an employee of Hagerty, the Traverse City-based classic-car insurance company and a leading sponsor of the Great Race. Having been reared on a farm in Pueblo, Colo., however, she was well acquainted with heavy-duty machinery. "It kind of took me back to my roots," she said in a telephone interview. I grew up driving tractors, and this is a tractor in vehicle form. Like Ms. Smith, 25, the team's navigator, Ms. Salsbury has a degree in automotive restoration from McPherson College in McPherson, Kan. Ms. Salsbury owns two vintage John Deere tractors: a 1928 Model D and a 1935 Model B. "I also have a 1930s-era homemade tractor that my great uncle built called Hadacall, as in we "hadacall" it something," she added with a chuckle. For driving to work, Ms. Salsbury of Traverse City uses a 1995 Jeep Cherokee. Her Hagerty-owned pickup has the optional 304-horsepower V-8 engine and a 4-speed manual transmission. Though it had its foibles, the gearbox was preferred by Ms. Salsbury over an automatic. "It does have a very long throw, kind of a long ways between second and third and then down to fourth," she said. But the manual is a lot easier, because I have more control over speed. The lack of power steering provided a bit more of a challenge during the trip, which featured stretches down two-lane blacktop and some dirt roads. "By the end of the race I could tell I got quite the workout," Ms. Salsbury said, adding that she and Ms. Smith once had to tighten the steering gear box. Some roads were bumpy and twisty so it got loose, but for one of the heaviest and longest things out there, the truck handled really well. Because contestants drove on public roads, maneuvering the big rig around nonparticipating drivers took some care. "We had to be extra cautious and aware of them," she said. And because the truck had no air-conditioning, above-average temperatures made for often sticky conditions. "Several times I wanted to jump in one of the lakes we passed," Ms. Salsbury said. But it was funny because the glass has a bluish tint, so it feels like you're in an aquarium. They had no mechanical breakdowns. "We added a quart and a half of oil to the engine and that was it," Ms. Salsbury said. But we knew that we two girls could've worked on the truck if need be. Ms. Smith is a Hagerty claims adjuster. Also representing Hagerty was Jonathan Klinger, the company's public relations manager, who drove the company's 1930 Ford Model A in the rookie class.