New Bern, North Carolina will host an overnight stop on the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Wednesday, June 25, race promoters have announced. The Great Race, the world’s premiere old car rally, will bring more than 100 antique automobiles downtown to Middle Street for the $150,000 event.
The race will start in Ogunquit, Maine, on June 21 and weave its way 2,100 miles over nine days down the Atlantic Coast through 13 states before the finish in The Villages, Fla., on June 29.
The racers will leave from Norfolk, Va., the morning of June 25 and stop for lunch in Elizabeth City, N.C., before rolling into New Bern.
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It's a pretty big deal apparently. I heard that some car club in NJ has rented 200 motel rooms in New Bern for that night. Yes I said two hundred. They are arranging shuttle busses to take folks downtown to view the cars because they think there will not be enough available parking for the crowd that is expected. I don't know. Might not be a crowd at all. They spend the next night in Wilmington, NC.
ReplyDeleteThanks and good to know.
DeleteWhat is the estimated time for them to be in New Bern on Wednesday, June 25?
ReplyDeleteThe cars will arrive after 5:15 p.m. at one-minute intervals for more than an hour and a half and stay parked for several hours to allow spectators to visit with the participants and to look at the cars.
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