Polish Mustang car club travels through Kansas on Route 66

Wil Day
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GALENA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Mustang car club from Poland stopped in southeast Kansas this week.

The Galena Police Department in Cherokee County posted photos of their officers with the group as they passed through the area Wednesday. The department says the men commented on how friendly people they had met along the route had been to them.

According to the Mustang Klub Polska Facebook page, they are traveling the full distance of old Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica, California. The organization is composed of 13 clubs called Stajnie, the Polish word for stables, in regions across Poland.

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The group that passed through Galena Wednesday is from Dolny Śląsk (or Lower Silesia in English) in southwest Poland. The trip is expected to wrap up in May.

April also marks the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the Ford Mustang, which premiered on April 14 at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City.

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