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Great Race Highlights 8/28/13 Great Race Highlights 8/28/13

Coker Tire Challenge is NEAR!

The 2013 Coker Tire Challenge is only three weeks away, but it is not too late to enter if you have not already done so. The eighth annual event at Coker’s headquarters…

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Great Race Highlights 8/27/13 Great Race Highlights 8/27/13

Great Race Winnings Put to Good Use!

Navigator of car #83 (Team Jedzie Boat) and 2012 Great Race Rookie division winner, Ian Deering, with his recent purchase...a 1964 Ford Falcon Sprint Convertible with a 260 V-8 engine and a…

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Great Race Highlights 8/5/13 Great Race Highlights 8/5/13

Rex Gardner at the Concours

More than two dozen current and former Great Racers were at the Concours of America July 28 at St. John’s in Michigan, including two-time Grand Champion Rex Gardner and his 1935 Ford…

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Great Race Highlights 8/1/13 Great Race Highlights 8/1/13

Caldwell's Auburn Speedster Wins Class at Concours

Chad Caldwell’s 1931 Auburn took first place in its class at the Concours of America last weekend at St. John’s in Michigan. The concours featured a Great Race Class and 10 cars…

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Great Race Highlights 7/31/13 Great Race Highlights 7/31/13

Coker Special Wins Award at Concours of America

Corky Coker’s 1937 Buick Shafer 8 took second place in its class at the Concours of America last weekend at St. John’s in Michigan. The concours featured a Great Race Class and…

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Great Race Highlights 7/12/13 Great Race Highlights 7/12/13

Coker Tire Challenge is Near!

The Great Race may be behind us, but in just over two months it will be time for the 8th annual Coker Tire Challenge in Chattanooga. And if you register before July…

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Great Race Highlights 7/8/13 Great Race Highlights 7/8/13

Cape Girardeau, Missouri Wins Best Overnight City Stop!

Cape Girardeau, Missouri won the Best Overnight City Award on the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty for its overwhelming spirit and hospitality, race officials have announced. Cape Girardeau…

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Great Race Highlights 7/8/13 Great Race Highlights 7/8/13

Crowley, LA Wins Best Lunch Stop City Award!

Crowley, Louisiana won the 2013 Best Lunch City Award on the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty for its overwhelming spirit and hospitality, race officials have announced. Crowley hosted…

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Great Race Highlights 7/8/13 Great Race Highlights 7/8/13

Great Race 2014 to Start in Maine, End in Florida

Great Race officials have announced that the 2014 event will start in the state of Maine on Saturday, June 21, and end in Florida nine days later on Sunday, June 29. The…

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Great Race Highlights 7/8/13 Great Race Highlights 7/8/13

Highlights from 2013 Race

Video highlight reel from the awards banquet featuring many of the 99 Great Race teams from the 2013 event.

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Great Race Highlights 6/30/13 Great Race Highlights 6/30/13

Great Race 2013--Grand Finish in Mobile, Alabama!

We're blessed to be the adventure of a lifetime that we can do every year! And the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty has come to an end in…

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Great Race Highlights 6/21/13 Great Race Highlights 6/21/13

Champion Oil Seminar

More than 50 people attended a seminar on motor oil put on by Champion Oil's Karl Dedolph at the Great Race host hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota, Thursday. Champion is a major sponsor…

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Great Race Highlights 6/6/13 Great Race Highlights 6/6/13

The Race for Autism is On the Road!

Greetings Racers, it is official, the Race for Autism is now on the road with 55 Donations totaling $5,730! Our 2013 Goal is $65,000! Emails have been sent to each Great Race…

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Great Race Highlights 5/29/13 Great Race Highlights 5/29/13

The Final Countdown to $50,000!

One of the 97 teams in this year’s Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty will take home a $50,000 check when they cross the finish line on Dauphin Street in…

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Great Race Highlights 5/8/13 Great Race Highlights 5/8/13

Gentry and Knowles Win Big at All-Stars for Autism Rally

A little snow didn’t stop Beth Gentry and Jody Knowles from winning the 8th annual All-Stars for Autism rally in Joplin, Missouri, last weekend. They edged out defending Great Race champions Barry…

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Great Race Highlights 4/24/13 Great Race Highlights 4/24/13

2013 Great Race Schedule of Events

The 2013 Great Race Schedule of Events has been released by race officials, and the first activities will take place Thursday, June 20, at the host hotel. “The 2013 Great Race is…

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Great Race Highlights 4/11/13 Great Race Highlights 4/11/13

Tulip Time Rally

The photo above is the start location for the Tulip Time Rally, which is the Pack Automotive Museum, in Farmers Branch Texas. This is a collection of 100 old and significant cars,…

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Great Race Highlights 3/21/13 Great Race Highlights 3/21/13

New Project from Previous Great Race Winner

Howard Sharp is no stranger to old cars. He is a fixture in the hobby dealing in Brass and Nickel cars and parts. In fact, he is at Chickasha in Oklahoma as…

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Great Race Highlights 2/27/13 Great Race Highlights 2/27/13

Wild New Entries and The Golden State

The Great Race has always attracted the rare, the unique and the unusual in regard to automobiles. We have had Buck Kamphausen's Hispano-Suiza, Dick Burdick's Bentley and Jeff Lane's McQuay Norris over…

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View fullsize No matter how well you prepare your vehicle, breakdowns can happen. We always have at least one truck and trailer rig following along the route to pick up cars along the way. However, some of the roads are a little too tight...this was a tough one ba
View fullsize The fun continues with the Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance! The Hilton Head Tour 2026 by Great Race was a special guest of the Lowcountry Driving Tour. We met up with a host of other enthusiasts and amazing automobiles. Be sure to come down to
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After another day of beautiful back roads, amazing meals, and a tour of the ONLY Kazoo factory in the USA, the Hilton Head 2026 Tour by Great Race has arrived in Hilton Head. From now until Sunday, the group will enjoy t
View fullsize We had another amazing day on the Hilton Head Tour 2026 by Great Race! Motoring out of Blairsville, GA, we were greeted with the fall colors in the Georgia mountains as our group made its way to @chelseasclassiccars  for coffee and donuts. We then st
View fullsize The Hilton Head Tour 2026 by Great Race had an amazing first day of driving. After sneaking out of Nashville, we hit the open road. Our friends at @cokertireco hosted a lovely lunch, followed by a tour of @thecokermuseum. Our afternoon drive featured
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View fullsize One of the most memorable moments in the 2026 Hemmings Great Race presented by Coker Tire was the splash zone after torrential rains somewhere between Elk City, Oklahoma and Shamrock, Texas. Quite a few racers encountered it, but Dan Stahl took the a
View fullsize We couldn't pull off these crazy events without a huge crew of staff and volunteers who take a big chunk of their summer and join us every year. Every person has a job, and is committed to giving participants a fair competition and a great experience
View fullsize You never know what you may pass while on a Great Race route. It could be cool, it could be weird or it could truly be a once in a lifetime opportunity, but every year is a new adventure.
View fullsize For this week's Throwback Thursday, we're not going too far back. Felicia Morgan captured this soaking wet photo back in 2023 during a summertime storm that drenched the competitors. One of the most popular questions about the Great Race is "Wha
View fullsize The 2027 Hemmings Great Race presented by Coker Tire is a nine-day adventure from Mobile, Alabama to Buffalo, New York. The competition is intense as more than 120 cars and trucks (built in 1974 or earlier) compete for $160,000 in prize money. The ca
View fullsize Throwback Thursday comes to you from Gallup, New Mexico, when we visited in 2015. Check out that row of vintage motels and a row of cool classic cars.
View fullsize Great Race city stops are the BEST way to see the cars and drivers up close. We have a lunch stop and evening stop each day, (but typically no hosted lunch stops on Day 1 or Day 9), giving spectators great opportunities to watch the cars roll into to
View fullsize Independence Day 1986, Washington D.C. a great setting for this Throwback Thursday!

The Great American Race as it was then called traveled from Disneyland to New York City. Newspapers and TV stations across the country covered this event, which cont
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