Today we discuss one of the wildest car races ever in the history of motorsport, a race that lasted 5 months and had half the cars drop out, a race that traversed Siberia, today we discuss the nearly impossible 1908 New York to Paris Race.

Let’s paint a little picture of the times, in 1908 the automobile is still an oddity. They were loud, temperamental and unreliable. The horseless carriage was still just a play thing for wealthy eccentrics.

It was a two newspapers, Le Matin in Paris and the New York Times, that came up with the wild idea of an automobile race to span from New York all the way to Paris.

The whole idea behind this wild feat was to prove what the automobile could do. Cars of the day were more like tractors than modern vehicles we know today. They were chain-driven, hand-cranked, snapping axles, and blowing gasket ...