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Oldest U.S. Car Rally

56th Annual Rallye Glenwood Springs, June 6-8, 2008

The 56th Annual Rallye Glenwood Springs will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 6, 7, & 8, 2008. This is the oldest continuously held rally in the United States. The MG Car Club, Rocky Mountain Centre, has sponsored the event for all 56 years, which began when a hardy group of sports car enthusiasts discovered the joys of top-down motoring in Colorado when MG’s still had lift-off tops and running boards!

The majestic, cool Rocky Mountains of central Colorado, with some of the most breathtaking scenery in America, form the backdrop for the Rallye Glenwood Springs. The event is a marvelous opportunity for car enthusiasts of every marque—British, American, German, Italian, Japanese, French, Swedish—to join together for a weekend of unique events. Through fifty-five previous years, vintage and classic cars from as far away as California and Illinois have shared the road with their newer counterparts for a weekend of fun and octane-related festivities. 250 enthusiasts in more than 130 cars are expected to participate.

The event begins on Friday with a scenic Road Tour from the Denver suburb of Arvada to Glenwood Springs. Saturday’s main event is the Rallye Glenwood Springs—a time-speed-distance rally to challenge both the novice and the experienced rallyist—winding through the canyons and mountains surrounding Glenwood Springs. The weekend culminates with the Banquet on Saturday night and the Car Show, Funkhana, and awards presentation on Sunday.

For those who want to turn the trip to Glenwood Springs into a weeklong vacation, you can emulate Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in taking high tea at the historic Hotel Colorado and fishing the trout-laden Roaring Fork or Frying Pan Rivers. A more active week could include a wild raft or kayak trip on the Colorado River that runs right through town, a strenuous hike to Hanging Lake at the top of spectacular Glenwood Canyon, and a thrilling gondola ride up the mountain to spend a few hours climbing through Glenwood Caverns, with a relaxing swim in the huge hot springs pool and spa in the evenings. And nearby are both ends of the spectrum for mining town explorers—celebrity-filled Aspen in one direction and quaint former coal and quarry towns Redstone and Marble—where the marble for the Jefferson Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier originated—in the other direction.

Additional information and the registration form are available on the MG Car Club, Rocky Mountain Centre website, http://mgcc.org/. You can also contact Glenwood Chairman George Smith at 303-973-6157, E-mail: cgmsmith@comcast.net, or Publicity Chairman Steve Hart at 303-985-2763, E-mail: stephen_hart45@msn.com. The mailing address for registration forms is: Dick Fuller, 6036 Crawford Gulch Road, Golden, CO 80403.

(Dolores Tucker’s Art Deco 2008 logo features an elegant 1938 MG SA 2-liter saloon in front of the Glenwood Springs

railroad depot, while the photo was taken at the 1953 Rallye Glenwood Springs.)