The City of Corona, California, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first AAA National Championship auto race around the city’s not-quite-three-mile Grand Boulevard circuit with a re-enactment of the event this September 14.
Half a dozen vintage racecars from the period assembled for several exhibition laps around the circular city street layout that formed the original circuit and, after appropriate introductory remarks from local dignitaries, set off to cheers from the gathered crowd.
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