{"id":14631,"date":"2025-06-14T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montana500.run\/?p=14631"},"modified":"2025-06-14T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:23:57","slug":"driver-profiles-ken-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/driver-profiles-ken-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Profiles: Ken Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Rich Armstrong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Cook, born and reared in Laurel, Montana moved to Bozeman in the late 1940&#8217;s after serving in the Navy. He was a salesman for Montana Motors and later sold insurance for New York Life.<br><br>Ken&#8217;s involvement in racing began in 1961 when he and John Foos entered the race at Lewistown and completed the run to Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken was instrumental in the formation of the organization we now know as The Montana Cross-Country &#8220;T&#8221; Association. He was a charter member as well as the first President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken was proud to be President and he served the office well. Marian, his wife, was elected Sec.-Treasurer and many years later, she would also serve as President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken entered his 1915 Vegetable Wagon in many of the early races. To my knowledge, he never won a race, but he always finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken&#8217;s appearance at each race was quite evident! He was a tall, thin man dressed in &#8220;T&#8221; attire-straw hat, vest and bow tie- sitting in the high profile &#8220;T&#8221; with a big wide grin. The &#8220;T&#8221; sported a shiny brass radiator, open wooden pickup box and bright yellow spoked wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken passed away in December of 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" src=\"https:\/\/wyte.one\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kencook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Armstrong Ken Cook, born and reared in Laurel, Montana moved to Bozeman in the late 1940&#8217;s after serving in the Navy. He was a salesman for Montana Motors and later sold insurance for New York Life. Ken&#8217;s involvement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivers","wpcat-111-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14632,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631\/revisions\/14632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyte.one\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}