The Oct. 24th daily herald, serving Chicago's suburbs, had an article by Susan Sarkauskas about the centennial stop of the Graet race in Geneva. This was the commemoration of the American leg of the 22,000 mile race from New York to Paris and it came through town back then and now.
The great grandson of the winner spoke at the Concours d' Elegance auto show.
The 100th anniversary trip started October 16th in Vew York City and will end in San Francisco after a three-week drive. The final stop will be at the Ferry Building.
It will go world-wide next year because of visa problems with the Chinese government .
In 1908, this was put on to show that cars could be driven in severe weather.
www.greatestracecent.com
Keep On Truckin'. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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