---
title: "The Drive’s Hero of the Day"
description: "Prewar racing cars are better enjoyed in the rain."
date: "2015-09-18"
modified: "2015-09-18"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/236/the-drives-hero-of-the-day-3"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# The Drive’s Hero of the Day

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This guy, who’s staying the course. That’d be the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which commemorates England’s motoring independence, gained on November 14, 1896: the day the country’s draconian 4 mph speed limits were repealed. Each year, a bunch of loonies drive pre-1905 automobiles on a 60-mile “Emancipation Run” to celebrate. Problem: It’s England. In November. Not that pissing rain and frigid cold will stop these chaps, though. They’re doing work in a 10-hp buggy, and loving every minute. Hero.

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