It doesn't get more British than this - London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2025
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Of course it was raining when the Veteran Car Run from London to Brighton started on November 2nd. But that didn't stop the antediluvian vehicles (for the most part) from mastering the 60 miles between the two cities with aplomb.
This article contains the following chapters
- Free ride
- Starting shot
- Technology of yesterday and tomorrow
- Enthusiastic audience
- Duncan Wiltshire, Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club
- The finale of London Motor Week
Estimated reading time: 6min
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At dawn on November 2, 384 pioneering vehicles, their daring drivers and co-drivers, and numerous early risers gathered in London's Hyde Park. Despite rain before dawn (typically British), spirits were high as everyone eagerly awaited the sunrise that signaled the start of the RM Sotheby's London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2025. The Veteran Car Run is the oldest continuously run motorized event in the world. This almost magical event catapults us back to the beginnings of motoring history. It is now 129 years since the original Emancipation Run of 1896, which celebrated the passing of the Locomotives on Highways Act. This landmark law increased the speed limit for "light steam engines" from four to fourteen miles per hour and abolished the requirement that a man with a red flag must always lead the way.
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