1937hd45 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) Larry Beals in his HISSO V8 race car, this started life as the 1908 G.P Mercedes that Spencer Wishart later drove to 4th place in the 1911 INDY 500. Bob Edited April 14, 2020 by 1937hd45 (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Look at the speed jack behind the car! There was a photo posted within the last two weeks of a car up on them and people wondered about it. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 More Cobe Race photos, 395 Miles on June 19, 1909 #6 driven by Jim Florida and #9 George Robertson. Photos again courtesy of the AACA Library & Research Center..."America's Automotive Library" and a public library for all! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 From the H.D. Carpenter scrapbook, cropped and original. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Not quite as old as some but this was taken in January 1987 - doesn't time fly. Yours truly at a local Wings and Wheels event at an airfield circuit which is now a housing subdivision. I still have the car, although the 'hot' engine no longer exists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 A photo taken at a Wings and Wheels event in the 1980s. The car - a 1931 Riley Brooklands - is significant in that it is the same car that won the first race for the Lady Wigram trophy held on the same circuit in 1949. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 In October 1986 a 'classic sprint' was held around the internationally known tourist town of Queenstown. My car is there on the right. The two red cars there both are historically significant. Car #12 is the 1935 Alfa Romeo Tipo B which the great Tazio Nuvolari used to win the 1935 German Grand Prix against the might of the Nazi-funded Silver Arrows. The car had a racing history here in NZ during the 1950s and was restored in the 1970s. It is now in a collection in Switzerland I think. The Ferrari on the left is a 375MM which had a racing history - I recall Masten Gregory was one of several drivers who raced it. It had lost its correct engine and was running a road type 330GT unit. The full story of that car can be found here. http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All.Ferraris/Detail/0370AM.375MM.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidAU Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 A favourite photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Locomobile racer in first Vanderbilt Cup Race, Oct. 6, 1906. Joe Tracy and mechanic Al Poole swinging around Westbury's hairpin turn on their record 69 MPH Lap. The team had won the trials two weeks previously but 11 tire failures killed their chances on the sixth. Our AACA Library & Research Center was recently donated an amazing trophy form Al Poole's family from a Guggenheim Race. It is stunning close up and to add to the great provenance we now have a pair of his goggles. As a vintage racer myself (not sure if I am worthy of that description) I literally was trembling holding these as I can only imagine what those goggles have seen. Thank you to Jim Poole and his sister! It is a real treasure to have! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hddennis Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 14 minutes ago, twin6 said: Me Thinks ya like the Maxwells. Got one? Howard Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevep516 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) An interesting Article on the "Brief History oh Model T Racing" courtesy of "Antique Automobile" Christmas 1959 , Vol. 23, No. 6 Edited April 15, 2020 by stevep516 Duplicated Photo (see edit history) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motoringicons Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Wow! This thread is great. Keep it going!!! Since we are on Model Ts, here is my recently acquired 1915 Kuempel-Ford racecar and some period ads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Ash Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Here's L.L. Corum 10 years later in a 1933 Studebaker car. This is the car that sold recently for $1.1 million, now in a museum in Salt Lake City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Gary, Was the one that sold the green one that had an earlier radiator shell in the Pebble Beach auction? Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Ballard 35R Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 I believe Gary is referring to the Bob Valpey Studebaker car that was sold at the Gooding auction last year at Pebble Beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Just now, A. Ballard 35R said: I believe Gary is referring to the Bob Valpey Studebaker car that was sold at the Gooding auction last year at Pebble Beach. Thanks! I took a few photos at the Gooding auction with my daughter next to it. Bob Valpey was good enough to give her a ride in it around the Hershey track back around 1989 or so. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Harry M. Hartz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty12 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, motoringicons said: Wow! This thread is great. Keep it going!!! Since we are on Model Ts, here is my recently acquired 1915 Kuempel-Ford racecar and some period ads. Now that is a REAL Model T speedster! There are not many period original T speedsters in existence. This is indeed a great thread!!! Edited April 15, 2020 by rusty12 (see edit history) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Ash Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Yes, that was Bob Valpey's Studebaker Indy car. It was built and raced at Indy in 1931 as #37 - the Hunt-Jenkins Special, raced again in 1932, was modified a little and raced at Indy again as #47 in 1933. It eventually passed into the hands of Stan Smith and was restored in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Bob owned and raced the car in many events, including the Mt. Washington hill climb, for many years. Here's the car and Bob in the Stetson hat in South Bend in 2007. The car won the 1931 Pikes Peak race, setting a record that held for many years. Studebaker Indy car at Studebaker Drivers Club meet, South Bend, In, 2007. Studebaker Indy car at Pikes Peak, 1931. Studebaker Indy car #37 at Mt. Washington hill climb, 2008. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHa Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) Here is a picture of the 1905 Locomobile race car regularly identified as Joe Tracy's Locomobile. The car was actually commission by Harold Thomas of Chicago, Illinois. It was built by Locomobile at a cost at the time of $18,000. The motor was 7" x 7" bore and stroke and rated at 120 HP. Old 16 has an F head motor with overhead intake valves. You will notice there are no overhead valves on this car. Old 16 has copper water jackets while this car has cast in place water jackets. The story of this car can be read in my study in the Locomobile section of this forum under "What car is this?" I would love to see other pictures of this car if the library has anything. Edited April 16, 2020 by AHa (see edit history) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Oh so much wonderful stuff in this thread! Thanks to all of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Stutz! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Brooklands, February 15, 1913 Talbot goes for a record run. Perry Lambert created 14 new records in the 25 HP Talbot in 8 days. He is credited as being the first man on earth who travel 100 miles in one hour. Courtesy of the AACA Library & Research Center files....while our staff is at home I am enjoying raiding their files! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Gary, just for YOU! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Simplex Zip, in one of its configurations. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gary_Ash Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) Here's some of the 1933 Studebaker Indy team with the Pierce-Arrow "Silver Arrow" at the Pagoda in Indianapolis. Driver of #34 was Tony Gulotta, finished 7th. I've been in #34 at over 100 mph, quite a thrill. It's still racing in vintage events. Aerodynamics of the 1933 Studebaker cars were developed by Kelly Johnson as a grad student at Univ. of Michigan using the wind tunnel there. Johnson later headed up the Lockheed "Skunk Works", birthplace of the U-2 and SR-71. Edited April 16, 2020 by Gary_Ash (see edit history) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 One of the true icons in the racing world. Craig Breedlove and his Spirit of America jet car. 407.45 MPH in 1963. Craig always seemed one of those bigger than life characters! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 I wonder if his Coupe survived, sure would be a lot easier to get on and off the Hershey show field. Bob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) 24 minutes ago, 1937hd45 said: I wonder if his Coupe survived, sure would be a lot easier to get on and off the Hershey show field. Bob It may have morphed into this....I see bobbed rear fenders on both.... Edited April 16, 2020 by keiser31 (see edit history) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 You may be right, note the open section of windshield, the louvered deck lid would keep the air flowing. Bob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cessna195 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Bob, I thought you like the following photos. They took place in Yuma Az. About 1938 /1939 time frame. They are of my father’s midget race car (#15) and other midgets that raced in the Yuma / Imperial Valley area. One of the photos is of two women racing the midgets with one car getting a little air with a caption on the back of the photo that my dad wrote. Most of the cars they were running had hoped up model a engines in them. I dad told me a neet story about the time Gib Lilly called them and invited the cars from Yuma to a race in San Diego at Balboa stadium. Gib Lilly was having a car count problem and need the cars from Yuma to increase the count. The Yuma cars were to run against Offy and Flat Head Fords. To make a long story short the track was a one grove track with hardly any passing and my dads car finished 3rd in the main and after the race Gib told my dad not to plan on having Yuma cars coming to any more of there races. John 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 A fearless driver! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steve Moskowitz Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 More Lnaghorne photos from the files at the AACA Library & Research Center...tons of race track brochures have been saved from a huge variety of tracks. Very cool material. We have a bunch of board track stuff too I will try to find at lunch time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 Giants Despair Hill Climb 1907! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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