PacSun Article- Resurrecting a Roadster: The Car that Started May Madness Comes Home to San Rafael
The Pacific Sun recently featured the incredible story behind this year’s 36th Annual May Madness Car Show & Parade, including the long-awaited return of Greg Borrelli’s original 1932 Ford Roadster, the car that helped inspire the beloved San Rafael tradition more than 35 years ago!
The roadster belonged to Greg Borrelli, founder of May Madness, the annual downtown celebration of cruising culture that has, for 36 years, turned Fourth Street into a gleaming corridor of horsepower and hair grease. Borrelli launched the event to honor the old cruise nights of the 1950s and the local legend later immortalized by American Graffiti, which famously filmed scenes in San Rafael.
Then the car vanished into the blur of time, sales and geography. Borrelli passed away in the 1990s. The roadster became one of those local myths people talk about at barbecues and car shows—surely still out there somewhere, but probably not.
Not so fast.
A true full-circle moment for Downtown San Rafael and classic car fans alike!