Back to the 50s car show
Motor with us down the mighty Mississippi
The 2012 Great Race around the Great Lakes produced a record number of rookie entries into the event – a number many thought would never be broken. Well, one year later, that number has been broken with more than 50 days to go before the 2013 race takes off from St. Paul. Currently, there are 28 rookie teams entered in the Great Race, from as far away as California and Florida.
Steve and Janet Hedke will be returning to Greatrace for 2013, but not as a team this time. The Hedke’s ’29 Ford roadster is still undergoing repairs: the chassis has been completed and a new rumbleseat body acquired, but family issues have prevented Steve from working on it for the last 6 months.
Raime Brown has joined the Great Race staff in Chattanooga to help with administrative duties, and Great Racers will get to know her over the coming months on the phone and in person, Director Jeff Stumb announced. She will be helping with registration duties and working with participants, sponsors and everything Great Race related as well as continuing in her role as Tour Coordinator of the Coker Museum, which she has held for more than two years. “And Raime will be with us on the Great Race this summer so everyone will get to meet her,” Stumb said.
One of the hardest things about the Great Race is you meet so many people from all over the country (and the world) but you only get to see most of them once a year on the race. And when you become friends with literally thousands of people over the years who have participated in the Great Race it is inevitable that you are going to lose some from time to time. [more]
Great Racers have been all over Florida in the last few weeks, including a group of Northeastern rally fanatics who were in the Sunshine State for Speed Weeks at Daytona. In the photo are Great Race veterans Peter Hersey, Steven Tourje and Bill Josler.
Late last week I headed to Philadelphia for the annual meeting of the Antique Automobile Club of America for a trade show, business meetings and seminars. I expected to not wear my Great Race hat at all during that time because for the most part it is a different crowd because it is business meeting oriented.
The new hats for the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty have been selected, and I got a sample the other day I wanted to share. For this year’s race, we will again have red hats for rookies, plus two additional colors which will be for sale. Veterans will get a very nice beige-colored hat, while the third hat will be black.
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The State Fairgrounds in St. Paul and the “Back to the 50s” car show will be the starting point for the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty on June 22, race promoters have announced.
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I just got a call from Larry Edsel at The Detroit News asking questions about the 2013 Great Race. The News was on hand at the finish of the Great Race in Dearborn this summer and the next morning’s edition had a huge color photo on the front page!
We’ve been getting tons of phone calls and emails about the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty. We have folks call us about entering the event on a regular basis, and we recently spoke with Jerome Reinan of Denver, Colorado. His 1917 American LaFrance make look familiar to some of the Great Race veterans, as it competed in the Great Race back in 1994 when we went from Huntington Beach, California to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania! Jerome and his American LaFrance is ready for action again, and recently entered for the 2013 event!
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