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Archive 4/14/15 Archive 4/14/15

Timewise Speedometer For Sale

Dennis Martin, a 2014 rookie on the Great Race, has a Timewise speedometer he wants to sell. It was sold brand new to him last year before the race and he used…

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Archive 4/13/15 Archive 4/13/15

John Hollansworth Collection Destroyed by Fire

John Hollansworth, a Great Race veteran of more than 20 years, lost all of his collector cars and memorabilia in an early morning fire on April 7 at his shop in Hot…

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Great Race Highlights 3/31/15 Great Race Highlights 3/31/15

Watch the Full Great Race 2014 TV Show Online!

In case you missed it, the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty TV show can now be watched anytime on the internet. The show was a huge success, but…

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Great Race Highlights 3/30/15 Great Race Highlights 3/30/15

Sights from the 2015 Great Race Route

As if you weren’t already excited enough about the 2015 Great Race along Route 66, we thought we would share these photos taken last week on the course from Kirkwood, Missouri, to…

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Archive 3/27/15 Archive 3/27/15

Check out Two New "How To" Great Race Videos

In our continuing quest to provide more information to Great Racers, especially rookies, the Great Race has produced two new “How to Videos” to go with 11 others featuring Director Jeff Stumb…

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Great Race Highlights 3/26/15 Great Race Highlights 3/26/15

New Life for an Old Great Race Car

Back in the mid-1980s, just as the Great Race was getting started, a 1932 Ford Dirt Track racer entered the event. What made it unusual was the paint scheme – called “Stars…

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Great Race Highlights 3/24/15 Great Race Highlights 3/24/15

Champion Oil Announces New Great Race Award

Longtime Great Race sponsor Champion Oil has announced a new award – including a beautiful glass trophy and $1,000 in Champion Brands products – to the highest placing team in the 2015…

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Great Race Highlights 3/14/15 Great Race Highlights 3/14/15

Corky Coker Announces 2016 Great Race Route!

Corky Coker, owner of Coker Tire Company and the Great Race, has announced that the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty will travel the historic Lincoln Highway for its 2016…

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Archive 3/13/15 Archive 3/13/15

Huge Great Race Announcement Coming Tomorrow!

Corky Coker is making a HUGE announcement at the The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance tomorrow morning (Saturday, March 14th) at 9am Eastern Time. The announcement concerns the 2016 Great Race route, which…

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Archive 3/9/15 Archive 3/9/15

Spirit of Stahls Expands to Four Teams for 2015

As you can imagine, Ted Stahl has been busy since the Great Race ended in Florida eight months ago. In addition to traveling all over the world on company business, he has…

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Archive 3/4/15 Archive 3/4/15

Proven Great Race Car--1969 AMX--For Sale!

One of the rarest and coolest 1960's automobiles to ever participate in the Great Race is now for sale. Known as “Carrot” for its bright orange color, Marc Perlman is selling his…

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Archive 3/3/15 Archive 3/3/15

Great Racer on Display at DC Auto Show

Every year after the Great Race, several competitors' cars will make the rounds to car shows, concours and national auto shows. And that's just what Daniel Jobe, a 2014 rookie along with…

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Archive 3/3/15 Archive 3/3/15

Timewise Speedometer For Sale

Irvin Wright, a 2014 rookie on the Great Race, has a Timewise speedometer he wants to sell. It was sold brand new to him last year before the race and has not…

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Great Race Highlights 3/2/15 Great Race Highlights 3/2/15

McPherson College to Build 1935 Indy Winner Replica

The boys from McPherson College, winners of the last two X-Cup Division titles in the Great Race, have a new challenge on their hands. Led by two-year race veteran Tony Di Valentin,…

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Great Race Highlights 2/28/15 Great Race Highlights 2/28/15

Great Race Visits Japan Part 3--Seeing the Sights

While in Japan recently to visit with 2014 Great Racer Toshi Akasaka and the eight Japanese teams signed up for the 2015 Great Race, I got to enjoy a lot of sites…

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Great Race Highlights 2/27/15 Great Race Highlights 2/27/15

Great Race Visits Japan Part 2--The Cars!

The spectators on the 2015 Great Race will get quite a treat this summer. Not only will they see the best classic and vintage cars from the United States – from a…

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Great Race Highlights 2/26/15 Great Race Highlights 2/26/15

Great Race Visits Japan!

Toshi Akasaka of Japan participated in the 2014 Great Race and at the closing banquet when he was awarded “Our Best Friend” plaque he told the crowd he was going back to…

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Archive 2/25/15 Archive 2/25/15

Exciting News for Great Racer Scott Hudson

Through the years we are glad to be able to keep the Great Race family connected by posting news about participants here. Some of it is sad news and some of it…

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Great Race Highlights 2/24/15 Great Race Highlights 2/24/15

The Great American Tour--A Route 66 Adventure!

For more than 30 years, the Great Race has been traveling the best back roads of America in cars built before 1972. While the Great Race is geared toward competition, with $150,000…

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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
View fullsize STOP SCROLLING and head over to www.greatrace.com. We have a brand new website that has way more cool features and a great new look. It's still a work in progress, but we think you'll like the new setup. Go check it out!
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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...
View fullsize We'll always remember the WARM welcome we got in Albuquerque!
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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