It was a hell of a party, part Mexican fiesta, part class reunion, part a gathering of the VFW, all rolled into one. The place was the Petersen Automotive Museum and the occasion a reunion of the drivers and other participants in the extraordinary series of endurance races known as La Carrera Panamericana (though, in the U.S., it was frequently just The Mexican Road Race). Among the Carrera veterans, swapping stories over spicy tacos and Mexican beer at the Petersen,…
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