Monthly Archives: March 2022

Part II The welcome the teams received from Russian Government officials made the half-hearted welcome most of the teams received in America look downright passionate. They met with the drivers in their full gold, lace-covered government regalia and offered some no nonsense advice. “Give up.” Put the cars on the Trans-Siberian railway and resume theirContinue reading “Is this even a race? The NYC to Paris 1908 Car Race”

Part I Walking through Springville, New York’s Maplewood Cemetery, you’ll come across a small headstone marked George N. Schuster. Engraved upon its upper half is an early open-top automobile…three men are riding inside, and from its trunk is mounted an American flag waving in the wind. The stone reads, “Driver of the Thomas Flyer andContinue reading “Is this even a race? The NYC to Paris 1908 Car Race”