[NC] Car race: 1903

[Carol <car@texas.net>]

I received this in L.M. Boyd's "Sampler" that I receive each morning. 

'thought it rather LBC-ish...


"Two hundred and sixteen car drivers started out in 1903 on a 870-mile race
from Paris to Madrid. Few people along the route ever before had seen a
car. So they waited in the road. By the time the lead car had gone 343
miles -- when the whole thing was called off -- the racers had killed 550
spectators."

Carol