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_______________________________________________________________________ I have been sharing info I recently acquired for the ’53 & ’54 GAMR over the past month or so on my Facebook Page. A little more background on where this info came from: In December I was contacted by someone in Missouri who had acquired some documents about some sort of race inContinue reading “HOW I CAME TO ACQUIRE THE DOCUMENTS FROM GAMR ’53 & ‘54”

Great American Mountain Rally Revival 2021 Across the last four years, a new autumn tradition has been put in places for Lynn and me.  In October of 2018 we entered our 1948 Hudson Commodore  in the inaugural running of the Great American Mountain Rally Revival (GAMRR).  The “revival” is a resurrection of the original GreatContinue reading “Post GAMRR Story by 3 time entrant Greg Davis”

GAMRR 2021 IS IN THE BOOKS! On September 13th, 14th & 15th of this month we were finally able to run the 3rd Great American Mountain Rally Revival. After a false start for running in 2020 due to Covid we continued our planning on and off for the past year and a half. Covid hadContinue reading “Follow up to GAMRR 2021”

July 25, 2021 The weekend of July 17th I was invited to give a talk at the SAAB Owner’s Convention in Albany New York. Tim Winker, a participant in GAMRR 2019 and long time SAAB owner mentioned to the club secretary that I might be able to put something together highlighting SAAB’s dominance of theContinue reading “GAMRR GETS SOME PRESS IN BARRON’S – PENTA ARTICLE ABOUT THE RECENT SAAB OWNER’S CONVENTION.”

6-24-21 As everyone knows Covid had basically shut down Vermont for almost a year. In the interim John Buffum has been running routes based upon his long term local knowledge and roads I wanted to use from the original ’55-’56 events. John gave me a copy of his near final version for DAY 2 whenContinue reading “MY FIRST DRIVE OVER GAMRR 2021 ROUTES!”

6-24-21 This past weekend I spent Saturday running in John Buffum’s Summer Challenge Rally. Originally John had asked me to work a control; but then he told me he had someone looking to run the event with someone. I agreed and so I meet Alex Hanson at the start.  Alex has run a few ofContinue reading “FATHER’S DAY RALLY WEEKEND”

I was just notified by Hagerty insurance that they will provide coverage during our 3 day event to anyone who is registered; regardless of whether they have Hagerty Insurance. Thanks for your support! https://www.facebook.com/Hagerty/

5-11-21 Over the last 3-4 weeks John Buffum (Clerk of the Course) has been running over portions of the event to do some minor revisions on routes and establishing timing control locations. I hope to have Route Books from John in the next month or so and plan on running part of the event inContinue reading “RECCE CHECKS ON GAMRR 2021 CONTINUE”

5-10-21 SO; WHO IS BEHIND CHOOSING MANY OF THE GREAT ROADS WE WILL BE RUNNING THIS YEAR? Many of you know COVID shut my access to Vermont for the last year. Luckily John Buffum lives not an hour from the Trapp Inn; the host hotel for our event. John volunteered to start laying out theContinue reading “The Man Behind many of the roads in GAMRR 2021”

Dr Gregory Davis and his wife Lynn have entered GAMRR in 2018 & 2019, both times in different Hudsons. Following is a link to his blog which covers all three days of the 2019 event. Please check it out; some great reading and will give you a real feel for what this event is about.Continue reading “A First Hand Account of Driving a Hudson in the 2019 GAMRR”