{"id":459381,"date":"2000-12-01T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2000-12-02T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=121224"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:23:55","slug":"trail-of-tears-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/trail-of-tears-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrera Panamericana (1954) &#8211; Trail of Tears, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell\u2019s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The carnage continued to mount on the next leg, Mexico City to Le\u00f3n. There were four major crashes and one fatality, all of them occurring at a washboard curve outside Mexico City near Rio Hondito. I had followed the last Carrera entrant from Mexico City northward, and in less then thirty minutes spotted Bechem\u2019s battered Borgward. The sports menor leader had fallen afoul of a tricky corner that left his car with a missing panel, a badly mangled nose and a driver with a fractured femur.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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I had followed the last Carrera entrant from Mexico City northward, and in less then thirty minutes spotted Bechem\u2019s battered Borgward. 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