Photos courtesy Tommy Lee Byrd and Great Race.com. The Vintage Car Rally Association (VCRA), The Great Race, Hemmings Motor News, and the Race for Autism lost a great friend and hero this week, with ...
Photos courtesy Tommy Lee and Coker Tire For anyone interested in speed, time, distance rally racing but aren’t quite ready for the annual 10-day, 2,000-plus-mile Great Race, we suggest starting in o...
The finish line for day seven, Vancouver, Washington. Photos by author. Days seven and eight On day seven, racers had Mt. Hood to the driver’s side of their cars most of the day. Weather had improved...
Crowds await the finish of day five in Grants Pass, Oregon. Photos by author. Day Five – Wednesday, June 26 We are betting most of the race teams in open cars are glad to be out of Oregon as they wer...
Photos by author. Day Three – Monday, June 24 Leaving Gardnerville, Nevada on day three, racers skirted Reno and climbed to cooler temperatures and back into California via Truckee and on to the mini...
Ford Model A’s from the local chapter of the Ford Model A Club of America (MAFCA) at the start of Saturday’s leg. photos by author. Day One – Saturday, June 22 The start of the Great Race was on Miss...
A hosted social hour was held after the day’s rally followed by an awards ceremony for Friday’s Trophy Run. This day of rallying is a separate preliminary event to the Great Race, which began at Miss...
Husband and wife team Pat (driving) and Pat (navigating) Brothers. Photo by author. As we mentioned in our last driving post, Great Race teams spend some time between races practicing and fine-tuning...
This Hudson Hornet is a fan favorite. Photos by author. For those not familiar with time, speed, and distance racing, the objective of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race is not to get to the finish l...
1964 Leslie Special. Photos courtesy Bonhams. While a Tucker 48 proved to be the topseller at last weekend’s Tupelo Automobile Museum auction, it was a trio of even less mainstream cars that caught o...
Driver Jim Menneto and navigator Stephanie Sigot pose with the Hemmings Speedster. Photo courtesy Stephanie Sigot. Aided by a sixth-place finish on stage nine, the leg from Dartmouth to Halifax, Nova...
Carl Schneider and Jack Juratovic heading to the Mt. Washington summit in their 1955 Buick. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, unless otherwise noted. The Mount Washington Auto Road, which climbs to the summi...
Competitors have exactly 60 minutes from arrival to eat lunch and depart, making for scenes like this one as the no. 46 Plymouth Bluesmobile of Dennis O’Connell and Stephen Hebert and the no. 17 Pack...
The Hemmings Speedster’s vacant parking spot. Our team is en route to Jacksonville. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. On Saturday, June 24, the 150 teams competing in the 2017 Hemmings Motor ...
The Alfred College teams pose in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge before the start of the 2016 Great Race. In 2015, Alfred State College in Wellsville, New York, entered its first Hemmings Motor ...
The Chattanooga start of the 2011 Great Race. Photo by Tommy Lee Boyd. The popularity of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty has grown tremendously in recent years, with each new ...
From the seller’s description: 1937 Ford Coupe: V8-60, Originally from Montana. 3rd owner. Manual Trans, no patch panels, no rust outs, body is in excellent condition. Motor overhauled, hydraulic bra...
Map images courtesy of The Great Race. At the conclusion of the 2016 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty, Great Race and Coker Tire Company owner Corky Coker announced that the 2017 e...
1964 Volvo 122S for sale. From the seller’s description: This rust-free original 2-dr coupe, still with its original California black plates, has been in SoCal all its life. I bought in June for the ...
The Hemmings Motor News 1932 Ford speedster. Photos courtesy The Great Race. The 2016 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty concluded on Sunday, June 26, in Moline, Illinois with a dead...
Sportsmen Division veterans Bill & Carolyn Croker, in their 1936 Packard 120B Coupe, are welcomed to the day’s finish line in Rapid City, South Dakota. Six days in the books, three to go, and the rac...
Cousins Jody Knowles and Beth Gentry cross the Cheyenne, Wyoming, finish line in fourth place in their 1932 Ford Cabriolet. Photo by author. Stage 5 of the 2016 Hemmings Motor News Great Race present...
1998 and 1999 Grand Champion Rex Gardner and grandson Kolton Hastert cross the finish line in Evanston in their 1962 Chevy Nova. Photo by author. Stage 4 of the Great Race came to a close at the hist...
Jonathan Klinger & Davin Reckow arrive in Elko, Nevada, in their 1917 “Green Dragon” Peerless at the end of stage three. Photo by author. Stage Two: Old Sacramento, California to Reno, Nevada Stage T...
Day one comes to a close in Old Sacramento, California. Photos by author. Editor’s note: The 2016 Hemmings Motor News Great Race, presented by Hagerty, kicked off last Friday with the Hagerty Trophy ...