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Episode 183: The 1908 New York to Paris Race

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The Thomas Flyer Team Had a Great Race, but It Was a Charade.

The thomas flyer team enjoyed. a too state lead from wyoming onwards. One of the cars, which you may remember, had old mate charles godard at the helm. He decided to take desperate action in order to sal s his chances in this race. A photographer caught him in the act as he was trying to put the car on the train. It is still not really possible to drive a car across the bearing strait. The only conceivable way that the car could have been taken from valdez to the bearing Strait would ave been to disassemble it completely and carry all the bits on dog sleds.

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