The event is not a race, but a controlled-speed endurance rally for vehicles built before 1975. A calibrated speedometer and clock are the only navigation tools allowed along with a daily route booklet that eschews interstates for back roads as it overnights in classic towns like Auburn, Georgia, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Emporia, Kansas. Tom McRae and Norman Miller founded the Great Race in 1983 as a time/speed/distance rally for classic cars. You have to like a little bit of competition, and you have to like traveling back roads of America and seeing places that you haven’t been to before. “You’ve got to be able to spend your hard-earned money, take a vacation time and go out and do this. “America’s oldest city and all these old cars - that’s a great tie-in,” Stumb said. You don’t have to be crazy to drive cross-country in the heat of summer in a car older than most folks while navigating by dead reckoning - but it helps, Great Race director Jeff Stumb said. Their only navigation aids for the 2,300-mile journey: a classic clock and route notes on the car’s dashboard. Driver and navigator run along Interstate 95 in Downtown Jacksonville in the Hagerty-owned 1917 Peerless Speedster minutes after the start of the 2017 Great Race on Main Street in Springfield.
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