By Max Flynn and Cotton Schlaver
A pair of scholar docents from the Maine Classic Car Museum are collaborating on this yr’s version of The Great Race appearing as navigators in a 1961 Cadillac. We will probably be following their progress on the ClassicCars.com Journal. Here is their first publish from day one.
Day 1: The Adventure Begins
We are Max Flynn and Cotton Schlaver, two highschool college students from Maine preparing for the journey of our life collaborating in the nice race 2024. Max is eighteen, a rising senior at Greeley High School, and Cotton is 16, a rising senior at Biddeford High School, and we’re docents at the Maine Classic Car Museum in Arundel.
The Great Race is a 2,300 mile rally with over 150 traditional vehicles and race groups competing. We are a part of a particular scholar group referred to as the X-Cup Challenge.
Over the subsequent ten days, we’ll deliver you day by day reviews of our rally preparation and experiences every leg from the beginning line in Owensboro, Kentucky, to the end line in our house state, Maine.
What higher solution to prepare for the Great Race than to see some nice vehicles. We flew into Nashville at this time to begin our epic journey. First cease, the Lane Motor Museum. The Curator of Collections, Derek Moore, welcomed us to this wonderful assortment of micro vehicles and vehicles from round the world. We noticed so many vehicles we had by no means heard of earlier than.
Our favorites? It was arduous to decide on, however for Max it was the 1991 Lancia Delta Integrale, due to its rally historical past. It is a uncommon automobile that you just by no means see in the U.S. For Cotton, it was the 1947 Tatra T-87 saloon, as a result of it opened a brand new realm of details about the significance of this Czechoslovakian firm to automotive historical past.
We are joined on this journey by the Maine Classic Car Museum General Manager, Tim Stentiford, and longtime museum volunteer, Bram Starr. We additionally wish to give a giant shout out to the RPM Foundation. Nick Ellis and his staff supplied us with a beneficiant scholarship that allowed us to participate in the X-Cup Challenge, the journey of our lives. We’re making our approach in direction of the beginning line in Kentucky and may have tons extra to report back to you in the coming days. Meanwhile, put the Lane Motor Museum in your bucket record of must-see museums. We cherished it.
Stay tuned for half two.
