the Great Race this year is from St Louis to Santa Monica along Rt 66, June 20-28

The nature of the event does not involve the winner crossing the finish line first. It’s all about precision driving, to match a pre-determined “perfect time” on the allotted course.

The racers get their turn-by-turn driving instructions 30 minutes before departing for the day’s journey. These directions also dictate speed changes, direction changes and gas stops—the theory is that if you follow the directions precisely, you will get a perfect score.

Just to give you an idea of how difficult that can be; in more than 30 years of competition, there has only been one team that has scored a completely perfect day, down to the second. The age of your car adds a multiplication factor to your score—the older the car, the better the multiplication.

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Today is sticker and registration time

Some of the cars that are going to be on the race are a '60 Fiat Multipla, Nissan Pao, a '69 Super Bee with a 440 6 pack hood, Datsun 2000, GT 350, a 32 Auburn Speedster, a 66 Hemi Coronet, 1916 Hudson, '72 Skyline GTR, and the cars you see in the above photos add up to the 117 registered vehicles... though 130 are on the list at http://www.greatrace.com/participants

Next years race is already in the planning stages