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Living Legends historic bus tour of Daytona
Tuesday,
January 3, 2017 by
GODWIN KELLY
Passing this information along from our friends at the Living Legends of Auto Racing.
The Living Legends of Auto Racing based in Daytona Beach will once again be doing a bus tour during Speed Week 2017. This year, the tour is scheduled for Friday, February 24 at 8 am leaving from the Living Legends of Auto Racing Museum located at 2400 South Ridgewood Avenue (US 1) in South Daytona in the Sunshine Mall.
You can support the Living Legends of Auto Racing while spending a morning seeing historic racing landmarks around Ormond and Daytona Beach.
You will get a full lecture on the earliest days of the beach runs at the Ormond Garage replica, visit the NASCAR Archives which are filled with memorabilia (formerly closed to the public, and now only accessible via a VIP Daytona International Speedway tour costing $50), see where Bill France Sr. first worked in 1934 and see his first local home.
You will pass the Armory where race cars were inspected prior to beach events, see Marshall Teague’s Pure Oil station building, Bill France Sr.’s gas station on Main St., the Streamline Hotel where NASCAR was formed, and much more.
The tour ends with lunch (included) at Racing’s North Turn Restaurant on Highway A1A near where the race cars from the beach days made the turn from the beach onto the paved highway.
Along with seeing all these historic sites, you will have an opportunity to spend time with a great group of racing fans who are interested in the history of auto racing as much as you are.
To make your reservations, call 386-763-4483. The cost is $50 per person and, again, includes lunch at Racing’s North Turn Restaurant.
At the end of the tour you’ll be invited to browse through the memorabilia and other great items that are all part of the Living Legends of Auto Racing
Museum. Do not miss this great opportunity to relive racing’s past. Seating is limited.