Period RACE CAR Images to Relieve some of the Stress

[AHa]

Evidently, Ford entered the 6 cylinder racing circuit in 1904, 2 years before the model K Ford came out, but later put a model K motor in a similar chassis. From a historical perspective, the 1904 car had nothing to do with the model K Ford but through the years, things became more muddied. Similarly, the nomenclature, 666, may or may not have been used with this car.

[StanleyRegister]

On 9/18/2020 at 8:34 PM, AHa said:

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to revisit this car, which was posted earlier.

 

This is E. O Hayes, racing at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on Oct. 9, 1909.

[Guest]

Here is Ray Mitchell in his Ford V8 powered Jeep Special at the 1947 Australian Grand Prix held at Mount Panorama, Bathurst. The car is two jeep frames welded together.

 

Ray was leading the race up until the last lap when he got a flat tyre. He finished the race driving on the rim, with sparks flying.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Australian_Grand_Prix

 

[AHa]

This is, of course, a Buick, but I had assumed it was one of the factory Buick race cars. It may still be, but I only count 15 louvers in the hood. I don't believe it is one of the big Buicks, more than likely a mid size. Can anybody speak to this car specifically? I believe the driver is known and was identified in a previous post. The model 16 Buick, I believe, has 18 louvers in the hood.

 

My bad, I found a restored car that looks almost just like this car and it has the 15 louver hood. There is nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

 

No, I was correct the first time. The model 16 has 18 louvers. This frame appears to have been a model 16 frame but the hood is wrong.

Edited December 17, 2020 by AHa (see edit history)

[George Cole]

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[Gary_Ash]

Maybe the photo isn't so old, but Merry Christmas from 1932 anyway!

 

[motoringicons]

Here are a couple period photos of 1909-1910 Buick Model 16s that were found on the Detroit Public Library site.

 

 

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[AHa]

23 minutes ago, Gary_Ash said:

Maybe the photo isn't so old, but Merry Christmas from 1932 anyway!

 

Gary, you've got to be proud of that thing. What a great job!

[George Cole]

Doreen Evans race car driver.

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The MG Woman's Team practicing for Lemans at Brooklands.

[George Cole]

[George Cole]

Yes, she's the driver.

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[George Cole]

Mike Boyle Racing Team

 

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[George Cole]

Dedicated racer.

 

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[AHa]

Not exactly a race car but you might say it is a period race image. This is Charles Hamilton's airplane in pond, The Meadows Race Track, Georgetown, March 12, 1910. It was a Curtis Biplane.

[AHa]

Racing at its finest at The Meadows Race Track.

[George Cole]

Violet Cordery race car driver, circa 1920s.

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[Walt G]

42 minutes ago, George Cole said:

When I was growing up in the 1950s unbeknownst to me George Robertson lived a 10 minute walk away from my hose ( where I still reside) .  He lived in Bellerose village and I live in Floral Park village , both located in western Nassau County on long island. I later was friends with Crawford Robertson who was George's son who lived in Garden City, NY. . Crawford was a great guy and he and Austin Clark and I used to go out to lunch together quite often for years.

[George Cole]

From Vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/george_robertsons_last_drive:

 

George Robertson’s Last Practice Run

 

After skipping the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the 1908 winner George Robertson was preparing for a triumphant return in the 1910 Race driving a Benz. His hopes for a repeat win and his future racing career were dashed with one of the strangest accidents in Vanderbilt Cup Race history.

Enjoy,

Howard Kroplick

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Although practice for the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race began Tuesday, September 20 action on the track was light until Friday, September 23. With the Warner timing device in place, Friday had an air of the first official day of practice. About a dozen newspapermen were invited to the course to observe the racers. One reporter, Stephen Reynolds, would play a fateful role in driver George Robertson’s career.

Shortly before 7 a.m. Robertson agreed to take Reynolds on a lap of the course at speed to assist him in writing a story. It proved to be his final act as a race car driver. Entering the dangerous Massapequa Turn just off the Motor Parkway at 70 miles per hour, Reynolds apparently panicked and grabbed the driver. Robertson slipped a wheel off the top of the three-foot embankment and the car rolled over on him. Reynolds was thrown some 30 feet from the wreckage, sustaining injuries so minor he was able to attend a press breakfast little more than an hour afterward.

Reynolds apparently panicked and grabbed the driver. Robertson slipped a wheel off the top of the three-foot embankment and the car rolled over on him. Reynolds was thrown some 30 feet from the wreckage, sustaining injuries so minor he was able to attend a press breakfast little more than an hour afterward.

Years later, Robertson wrote of the incident in the April 1945 issue of Bulb Horn (courtesy of Walter McCarthy):

“It was about 4 A.M. on a Friday that I left my house in Brooklyn to pick up the big Benz for Vanderbilt Cup practice. My wife had, for the first time, asked me to put off that day's practice, as she had a funny feeling about it. I laughed it off, for if all race drivers were to be governed by these so-called funny feelings, competition would be very limited and the race promoters would tear their hair.

On reaching our Long Island racing headquarters, Glen Ethridge, as fine a racing mechanic as was ever born, and I checked and rechecked the car before practice. When the car crew and ourselves had everything shipshape, Glen and I reported to the grandstand for practice and found a news man assigned to me as a riding mechanic, for his morning thrill and to get material for his story.

A good-sized man, all dressed up in a long black overcoat with upturned collar, and completely equipped with goggles and a derby hat forced down over his ears, crawled into the mechanic's seat. In the fresh morning air, his breath was rather on the heavy side. I instructed him in the use of the mechanic's controls and impressed upon him the mechanic's job of looking to the rear for overtaking cars. He mumbled something and that was that.

Down the Parkway we went at our customary speed, easing off on the bad curves and running wide open on the good stretches. It took my amateur mechanic some time for his fright to wear off. He finally ventured a look or two to the rear but he did not enjoy the job very much.

We approached the turn off the Parkway and I motioned him to hold tight to the seat handle. As we went into the turn at a fast clip, something happened and happened fast. My half-dozing mechanic suddenly came to life, saw the turn, and probably terrified at the speed, grabbed me. In the second, I had lost control of the car, the right front wheel had gone over a three-foot bank on the outside. The car rolled over so fast I couldn't get down into the "cellar". I was caught under it as it rolled on me and then off, smashing my back, ribs and right elbow and lacerating my head and face.

As I got to my feet, groggy and about to pass out, I saw my adorable mechanic standing on his feet and his derby hat was not even dented.”

An under-the-weather news man as mechanic, a roll-over and then the hospital, all this seemed to add up to that "funny feeling" my wife mentioned before I left home..."

Although initial reports of Robertson’s condition were optimistic, injuries to his arm proved so severe he could no longer master the big, heavy cars of the day. The man widely recognized as America’s best driver would race no more. Robertson's ride in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race was replaced by Franz Heim.

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[AHa]

Empire City Meet Race at Yonkers, N.Y May 31, 1903 Trophy, just surfaced after being lost over 100 years.

 

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[AHa]

Old 16 flying high over LIRR bridge in Long Island, NY

 

 

Then and now shot of same location.

 

 

 

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[George Cole]

[George Cole]

Chain-driven Mercedes.

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[George Cole]

When practically all other sports required only one ball, motorcycle chariot races were invented which pretty much required two very large ones.

[George Cole]

And just when you thought twin iron horse teams were more than enough, how about triple or quads? 

[George Cole]

One thing leads to another, so why not iron horse stagecoach racing?