It was 11:20 the cold crisp morning of February 12, 1908; just minutes after the President of the AAA New York City Chapter
fired the gold pistol above the Times Square crowd. For the Race Teams, the feeling was nothing like the life or death ordeal
that would lie ahead for the next six months. On the contrary, exhilaration was probably the better word to describe driving
through hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers straining for a glimpse of these “horseless carriages” headed to Paris. Proceeding
north on Broadway, the streets were lined with tens of thousands of people 8 to 12 deep for miles to the northern city limits.
The race is on and the contestants are just about to leave NYC and start a race of epic proportions, stop by The Old Motor for Part 5
by Jeff Mahl.
Edited by THead, 10 April 2013 - 23:33.
