By Great Race
April 17, 2013
Back in December, I got a call from two 21-year olds from Minnesota who wanted to participate in the Great Race in a 1959 MGA. It warms your heart when you hear of two guys that age who are into old cars and want to have the ultimate car-guy experience by competing in the Great Race. So I was really looking forward to meeting this pair of outstanding individuals – driver Alex Ethier and navigator Henry Mackaman, who are both from our start city of St. Paul.
However, last weekend Alex’s mother Sara informed me of the untimely death of Henry, who was a senior at the University of Wisconsin studying Economics and English. Needless to say, Alex and his family are still in shock and the Mackaman family is devastated. The cause of death was bacterial meningitis, an infection of the brain, according to Sara.
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By Great Race
March 22, 2013
Robert Dinges and I were sitting in my 1916 Hudson Hillclimber on about Day 12 of the 2007 Great Race somewhere way out west waiting for our restart time when I decided I was going to build a 1950s vehicle for the event. I wanted something easy to get in and out of and that had some power. I have always loved 1957 Fords and have had two retractables and a convertible over the years, so I started researching a car to build from one of those. It didn’t take long to find what I was looking for.
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By Great Race
March 4, 2013
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.
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By Great Race
February 28, 2013
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]
By Great Race
February 28, 2013
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.
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By Great Race
February 20, 2013
I’ve often said the Great Race is more than a car event…it is a family. Today we are with that family again. We are traveling to Florida to participate in the Florida Gumball Rally with fellow Great Racers, John and Beth Coker. For this event we won’t be driving our Great Race vintage Fords but will be driving modern bright yellow Chevys.
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By Great Race
February 12, 2013
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.
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By Great Race
February 5, 2013
Our good friend Jim Menneto and the good folks at Hemmings Motor News do a terrific job of putting together the greatest automotive magazine in the word each month. Not only is Hemmings the title sponsor of the Great Race and a huge supporter of old car rallies, it also deliver tens of thousands of old cars and parts for sale as well as the freshest insight to the automobile market, wonderful features on antique automobiles and beautiful photography all in one package.
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By Great Race
January 19, 2013
The rally season will kick off in a couple of months with the Penn-York Rally (renamed the Keystone Rally for 2013) in Lionville, Pennsylvania, on April 26-28. This event is put on by our good friends at the Northeast Rally Club.
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By Great Race
January 18, 2013
Going through some of this old Great Race stuff has been fun, and it has made at least one person happy in the process. Take a look!
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