The Great Auto Race Of 1908 - NY to Paris Car Race - an epic test of men and machines

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The Race was sponsored by the NEW YORK TIMES and the LA MATIN (a Paris newspaper).  The torturous New York to Paris Race route: NYC, Albany, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Valdez Alaska, Japan, Vladivostok, Omsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin and finally Paris.  The Thomas Flyer Team covered three continents and over 22,000 miles in 169 days.  The Race was ultimately won by the American Thomas Flyer driven by George Schuster Sr. of Buffalo, NY.  The feat has never been equaled.  They still hold the world record nearly 100 years later!

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