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Great Race Highlights 6/24/15 Great Race Highlights 6/24/15

Great Race Day 5--Santa Fe to Gallup, New Mexico

Day 5 of the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty gave us another long day of rallying in New Mexico. We covered many types of terrain throughout the day,…

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Great Race Highlights 6/23/15 Great Race Highlights 6/23/15

Great Race Day 4--Amarillo to Santa Fe

So far on the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty, we've seen some pretty cool stuff. But today's route topped the charts on scenery. We started in Amarillo, Texas,…

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Great Race Highlights 6/22/15 Great Race Highlights 6/22/15

The Great American Tour Rolls On!

While the Great Race is deep in competition, the folks on the Great American Tour are taking a similar route and taking in all the sights of Route 66. There were several…

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Great Race Highlights 6/22/15 Great Race Highlights 6/22/15

Great Race 2015 Day 3--OKC to Amarillo

As soon as we rolled out of the hotel in Oklahoma City this morning, we noticed the terrain change significantly. Less trees, less curve and less everything. Our Westward trek led us…

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Great Race Highlights 6/22/15 Great Race Highlights 6/22/15

Olivia's Day 2 Recap

This morning as we packed our bags, and readied ourselves before heading out of Springfield, Missouri; I realized that there isn't many events as cool as The Great Race. It's not every…

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Great Race Highlights 6/21/15 Great Race Highlights 6/21/15

Great Race 2015, Day 2--Springfield, MO to OKC!

With such an epic Day 1 of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty behind us, we started our second day of Route 66 adventures in our overnight host city…

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Great Race Highlights 6/20/15 Great Race Highlights 6/20/15

Great Race 2015--Day 1, Kirkwood to Springfield, Missouri

We covered a lot of ground on the first day of the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty. We started our day with an enormous start in historic downtown…

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Great Race Highlights 6/20/15 Great Race Highlights 6/20/15

The Grand Start of the 2015 Great Race in Kirkwood, MO

Instead of trying to condense all of this into one big day one blog, we're going to give you the highlights from the HUGE kickoff at the Kirkwood Depot in historic Kirkwood,…

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Great Race Highlights 6/19/15 Great Race Highlights 6/19/15

The Great American Tour Hits the Road!

Remember a few months ago when we announced the Great American Tour? It's a relaxed classic car road trip that will take in all the sights of Route 66. While the Great…

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Great Race Highlights 6/19/15 Great Race Highlights 6/19/15

Meetings Banquets and the Hagerty Trophy Run

We are getting closer to officially kicking off the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty. Tomorrow is the big day, as 117 cars will be taking the green flag…

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Great Race Highlights 6/18/15 Great Race Highlights 6/18/15

Olivia's Thursday Recap

It has been an extremely exhausting day! After getting up this morning, and heading to the airport we were faced with a small rain delay; however nothing to serious. It was so…

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Great Race Highlights 6/18/15 Great Race Highlights 6/18/15

Take a Tour of MotoeXotica and Can-Am Cars LTD. in St. Louis

We had the privelidge of checking out the expansive collection of cars, trucks and motorcycles at MotoeXotica today. Our tech inspection and stickering station was at MotoeXotica's first location, but they invited…

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Great Race Highlights 6/18/15 Great Race Highlights 6/18/15

2015 Great Race Registration and Tech Inspection

The Thursday before the start of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty is always registration and tech inspection day. We had a huge task at hand with 117 cars…

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Great Race Highlights 6/17/15 Great Race Highlights 6/17/15

And it Begins! Pre-race Fun in Kirkwood, Missouri!

We know how to have a good time with old cars, and tonight's activities offered a great way to kick off the pre-race fun here in Kirkwood, Missouri. Most of the cars…

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Great Race Highlights 6/12/15 Great Race Highlights 6/12/15

The 2015 VCRA Race for Autism is on the Road!

As of today Great Race Teams have already received over 100 donations totaling over $12,000 towards our goal of $66,000 for the “VCRA Race for Autism” – the official Charity of the…

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Great Race Highlights 6/12/15 Great Race Highlights 6/12/15

Al Unser Sr. to Attend Albuquerque Lunch Stop!

Al Unser Sr., the four-time Indianapolis 500 champion, will be at the Wednesday, June 24, Great Race stop in Albuquerque at the Unser Racing Museum to greet the participants and spectators. The…

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Great Race Highlights 5/28/15 Great Race Highlights 5/28/15

Eckler's Family of Auto Parts--Ace Award Sponsor!

Eckler's is a name that is well known in the classic car world, especially if you're a Corvette enthusiasts or classic Chevy enthusiast. However, Eckler's Family of Auto Parts has grown into…

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Great Race Highlights 5/27/15 Great Race Highlights 5/27/15

Rick McKone Posing with the Indy 500 Winner

While we are all gearing up for the 2015 Great Race in a few weeks, there was another race of some magnitude run Memorial Day weekend -- the Indianapolis 500. Although there…

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Great Race Highlights 5/26/15 Great Race Highlights 5/26/15

Champion Brands Are Back for the 2015 Great Race

Champion Brands is a company based out of Clinton, Missouri and its focus is high tech lubricants for collector vehicles. Champion Brands produces and blends more than 300 products, including fuel, oil…

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View fullsize The Wandering Troubadours of Finland disturbing the peace at the Petrified Forest National Park in their 1918 American LaFrance.
View fullsize The Great Race motto is "To Finish is to Win", and seeing teams cross the finish line after nine days of rallying always puts that into perspective. The smiles, the tears and the sighs of relief...
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View fullsize Here are just a few of the cars that are participating in the 2026 Hilton Head Concours Adventure! You still have time to sign up and join the fun...we'll be taking off from Nashville, Tennessee and finding our way through the mountains, eventually l
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View fullsize Great Racers enjoyed a cool pitstop in downtown Sapulpa, Oklahoma this year. If you're in the area, be sure to check out the newly revitalized downtown area! The buildings are historic, and the streets and sidewalks were recently revamped for a great
View fullsize Brandon Melendrez shared some insights from his experience during the 2026 Great Race. Check out a short segment here, but click below to read the full article. 

My Great Race experience started a few years back as our shop, Mustang Country Internat
View fullsize We’re working hard to finalize the route for the 2027 @hemmings Great Race presented by @cokertireco! We’re starting in Mobile, Alabama and ending in Buffalo, New York and we have SO MANY cool things to see in between. We’ll update
View fullsize Great words from our friends, the Hermansons aka team Maxinkuckee Mayhem. Here's a brief snippet but be sure to click the link to read the entire article. 

"It’s hard to explain to people what we do for 9 days in a truck with no cell phon
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View fullsize Go to the website and check out Charlie Brittingham's timeline and history with the Great Race. He spends his days wrenching on a 1913 Chevrolet but has plenty of Great Race memories along the way.

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View fullsize Get yourself and your favorite car on the road with the 2026 Hilton Head Concours Adventure! Check the link in our bio to read more.
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