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California Mille is open to cars that either ran or would have been eligible to run in the original event; hence participants cars must be designs from 1957 or earlier. The California Mille field is limited to 65 cars and applicants are screened for their car's historical significance and general
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open-road endurance race covering some 1500 km (or roughly 1000 miles) from
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