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14th July
2016
“GO!†Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, gave the command . . . The first automobile in the desperate San Diego-Phoenix race shot forward with a bound. –San Diego Union, Oct. 27, 1912.Â
In the fall of 1912, San Diego challenged Los Angeles to a road race across the desert to Arizona. The story of The Great Race.Â
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Ed Fletcher behind the wheel of his 20 hp Franklin “race car.” Special Collections, University of California, San Diego.
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