History of the Original Great American Mountain Rallye 1953-1957 The flag dropped on the first GAMR on Thanksgiving Day of 1953, and the rally continued every November through 1957. Described in the April 1956 issue of Auto Age as “America’s longest, toughest, and coldest rallye,” the races attracted driving teams from across America, Europe, and Scandinavia.[Read More…]
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TX to CA: The 4th Trans-America
America is a land intrinsically linked with the automobile, and whilst the United States cannot lay a claim to being the ones that invented the contraption that we are all obsessed with, thanks to the likes of Ford and Durant et al. the motor car became something that would touch[Read More…]
VT: Great American Mountain Rally Revival 2021
Across the last four years, a new autumn tradition has been put in place for Lynn and me. In October of 2018, we entered our 1948 Hudson Commodore in the Inaugural running of the Great American Mountain Rally Revival (GAMRR). The “revival” is a resurrection of the original Great American Mountain Rally[Read More…]
Olivia and Genna Gentry win the 2021 Great Race!
From the pages of greatrace.com! We hoped to find photos of the support crews, as fellow road rallyists Jeanne English, Bob Morseburg, and David Head worked behind the scenes this year with many others. Congrats to the Gentry Gals! The 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers[Read More…]
VT: Great American Mountain Rally Revival
GAMRR 2021 – SEPTEMBER 13TH, 14TH, 15TH – STOWE VERMONT We hope you can join us for the Great American Mountain Rally Revival (GAMRR), with three fantastic days of rallying in beautiful Stowe, Vermont, at our host inn, the Trapp Family Lodge. John Buffum, a multi-time USA Rally Champion and[Read More…]