Tuesday evening you can park a lawn chair on north Kingshighway or Broadway streets in Cape Girardeau and witness a little bit of automotive history as nearly 100 vintage cars speed by in The Great Race.
The race is a time, speed and distance rally for cars built before 1969. Each car has a driver and navigator. Instead of depending on speed, the racers must arrive at a certain destination at a predetermined time.
Executive Director Chuck Martin encourages everybody to come to downtown Cape Girardeau to greet the racers: “The coolest thing about this is the cars will be arriving just about one minute apart, so they will be coming into the community about in one minute intervals, but then they will be parking all along main street."
Martin says the vintage autos will park along Main and Broadway all the way down to Main and William. Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau public relations director Stacey Dohagne Lane says there will be welcome parties and pitstop parties along the race route, which runs from northern Kingshighway down Broadway street: “We really want to win the hospitality award as a city,”
Lane says they have encouraged local businesses to get together and throw pitstop parties to really welcome the racers to town.
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