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Acme Race Car in Inaugural Vanderbilt Cup Race


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Yes, here I sit with egg all over my face. That car is indeed a Lozier racing in the first Fairmont Park Motor Race in 1908.

I originally found the picture in our Vanderbilt Cup file. The back of the photo reads "Acme Car" and upon close inspection of the handwritten race note it read "Fairmont Park". I then tracked down Michael J. Seneca's book The Fairmont Park Motor Races: 1908-1911 and found the same photograph on page 34 with a caption that reads "Ralph Mulford's No. 17 Lozier kicks up the dust as it speeds along the park course".

Acme did have an entrant in the 1908 Fairmont Park race & it was driven to second place by Cyrus Patchke. The Lozier finished 3rd.

Attached here is the cover of an original program for the second Fairmont Park race and also a page showing the 1908 winners.

Sorry for the screw up & thanks for keeping me honest!!

-Chris

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