RayO

A. Ballard,. The 1910 Fairmount Park Race was it. And the "overzealous driver" was my grandfather, Al Mitchell. I read in another account of the race that when Chadwick was told of that Al Mitchell crashed one of his cars he responded "crazy driver." My grandfather always talked about the Chadwick having the first supercharged engine. I would love hearing one of these 800 cubic inch engines running! I am new to this site, so don't know proper protocol. I would like a copy of the Len Zengel letter. My grandfather also spoke of him and Willie Haupt. He got involve in racing as a chauffeur and met one of the Berdolls of brewery fame in Philadelphia. What's the best way of providing my email address?

Below is a photo of my grandfather Al Mitchell driving a Chadwick in a Philadelphia Fairmount Park race I believe in 1908. I have another closeup photo of him behind the wheel and a few good stories he told be about these early races. He crashed in this race. I visited the Pollock museum in the late 1970s when the 2 Chadwicks were still there. Ray Ott -- West Chester, PA