BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:313@porschenet.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T170000 DTSTAMP:20180828T124207Z URL:https://porschenet.com/events/great-american-mountain-rally/ SUMMARY:Great American Mountain Rally DESCRIPTION:\n\nRevival of 1950s Great American Mountain Rallye \;\nto challenge drivers and cars retracing historic 800-mile route\nELDRED\, N.Y . — Automotive rally teams from the northeastern U.S. and beyond will ga ther October 11–14\, 2018\, to challenge their cars and themselves in an 800-mile Revival of the Great American Mountain Rallye [GAMR]\, a Europea n-style endurance event that was held annually from 1953-1957 in upstate N .Y. and New England. \;\nDriver-and-navigator teams competing in the G AMR Revival will gather on Thursday\, October 11\, 2018\, at Churchill Cla ssic Cars\, Eldred\, N.Y.\, for orientation/inspection. Teams will receive authentic 1953 Mobilgas maps and written instructions about which portion s of the original 1100-mile GAMR route to follow. The next morning\, drive rs will start their engines and \; navigators will guide them northwar d through Vt. to the Canadian border\; southward to N.H.\; and then back o ver the Vt. border to the finish line. Rally officials will throw the chec kered flag on Sunday\, October 14\, 2018\, at Hemmings Motor News in Benni ngton\, Vt.\n“This is a very special event that will celebrate the way r allies used to be\,” said Rally Chairman Steve McKelvie. “Although it ’s not a typical rally\, the Sports Car Club of America [SCCA] has sanct ioned the event as a New England Regional Rally.”\nThe original GAMR\, d escribed in April 1956 by Auto Age as “America’s longest\, toughest\, and coldest rallye\,” was the first U.S. rally listed by Federation Inte rnationale de l’Automobile [FIA.] It attracted local amateurs\, top driv ers from American car clubs\, automotive factory teams\, and driving celeb rities. \;\nThe Rootes Motors team in 1953 and 1954 entered top Britis h driver Sheila van Damm. In 1954\, Formula 1 [F1] racer Stirling Moss com peted. \;In 1956\, F1 Champion Juan Manuel Fangio served as official s tarter\, throwing the green flag\; and Monte Carlo Rally winner Maurice Ga tsonides was a contender. Cars included both foreign and domestic\, such a s the Buick Century\, Chevrolet Corvette\, Ford Crestliner\, English Ford Anglia\, Jaguar XK140\, Lincoln Capri\, MG TF and Magnette\, Porsche 356 S peedster\, Renault 4CV\, Saab 93\, Sunbeam Alpine\, and Triumph TR3.\nPrio r to starting the Revival on October 12\, this year’s teams will receive route instructions in a written narrative and original 1953 Mobilgas Maps of Southern and Northern New England: identical to those of 60-odd years ago. Only roads appearing on these maps will be included. All teams will b e restricted to equipment similar to that used in original GAMRs:\n\n Rall y odometers with up to 2 distance displays are permitted\; rally computers providing average speed information are not allowed\, except for Halda Sp eedpilots.\n Mechanical calculators and slide rules are permitted\; electr onic calculators are not.\n Paper speed tables are permitted\; electronic speed tables are not.\n Clocks and stopwatches are permitted without restr iction.\n GPS mapping assists are not permitted.\n\nAt the 2018 finish lin e\, 1st\, 2nd and 3rd places will be awarded in 3 classes:\n\n Original: C ars that could have competed in 1950s GAMRs (model year 1957 or older)\n C lassic: Cars of model years 1958-1980\n Modern: Cars of model years 1981 o r newer\n\nGary Hamilton\, a land surveyor\, of Ipswich\, Mass.\, and Stev e McKelvie\, a civil engineer\, of Franklin\, Mass.\, collaborated to re-c reate the 2018 GAMR Revival as authentically as possible. Original rules r equired entrants to use written instructions and 1953 Mobilgas Maps. \ ;\n \;\nArmed with the above information—as well as Google Earth© a nd Garmin Basecamp© software—Hamilton developed the route into a map. T he original GAMR rallies were modeled on Europe’s grueling classic ralli es\, and Hamilton and McKelvie continued with this approach:\n“Why go to Europe when you can do a European-style rally here?” asks McKelvie.\n&n bsp\;\nAutomotive rally teams from the northeastern U.S. and beyond will g ather October 12–14\, 2018\, to challenge their cars and themselves in a 700-mile Revival of the Great American Mountain Rallye (GAMR)\, a Europea n-style endurance event that was held annually from 1953-1957 in upstate N .Y. and New England. \; \n\nFor more information on the Historic Rally an where to register please follow the links below.\n\nhttps://stevemckel vie.wordpress.com/?s=GAMRR\n\nSCCA Registration page:\n\nhttps://www.motor sportreg.com/events/great-american-mountain-rally-revival-salem-golf-club- scca-new-england-roadrally-899014\n\nHoping to see you at this Historic ev ent\n\nCheers:\n\nGary Hamilton\, Steve McKelvie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://porschenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/0 4/country-road2-jpg.webp CATEGORIES:rally LOCATION:Churchill Classic Cars\, 539 State Rte 55\, eldred\, ny\, United S tates GEO:41.524711;-74.88559199999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=539 State Rte 55\, eldred\, ny\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Churchill Classic Cars:geo: 41.524711,-74.88559199999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR