History Auto racing 1894-1942

Roamer-Duesenberg

 

I can see more than one movie camera in the photo above. Where is the film i wonder.

 

Kurtis,

O.M.G.!!

That 1941 clip is one of the FINEST, authentic, vintage racing clips I have EVER seen!!'
(And thinking how much the world would change in just 120-days from then made it very poignant too!)

Thanks for posting!!!!

JG

 

awesome clip!
and where is that 1919 footage? that would be something...
i love how everyone looks like they're walking so fast

 

This may come under the heading of "nit-picking", but I respectfully submit that the world had already changed - for the people of Europe at least - on September the 3rd 1939.

 

http://www.targaflorio.info/IMAGES/targaflorio1925dauv.jpg

 

http://www.targaflorio.info/IMAGES/targaflorio1925tatra.jpg

http://www.targaflorio.info/16.htm

 

Very true! I probably should have said THEIR world (meaning the people shown in the video) and stated the time as about 7-months.....to Dec. 7, 1941.

JG

 

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Just in case you missed the First Post in this thread by Kurtis........




In July of 1894 a French magazine organized a trial to publisize the motorcar. It was not a race. Some months later a few competitors from this event would organize a race, the fastest car would be the winner. Motor racing was born.
In that same year it would spur on other countries and individuals to stage similar events in their own backyards. Just as sponsorship is an important part of sport today it was just as fundamental in the earlier years. Two such individuals and co-sponsors of that first race would change the face of motor racing some years later in England and America.
James Gordon Bennett would have a trophy in his name as would William K. Vanderbuilt, the latter being an architect of a famous American road race. Another wealthy man with grand visions would later build the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the annual Indy 500. A race that the French and Italians would be successful in it's earlier years.
Italy would hold it's first race in 1895 although surprisingly Germany would have to wait a short while longer, a headscratcher considering the first motorcar was built by a German but it wasn't long before they too would show the world what German technology had to offer. England wasn't lagging behind either, with the construction of the worlds first purpose built track it's auto industry took great strides forward. So it was these five countries that had and still do have the greatest influence in the way racing cars are built.

Kurtis.

Please post your pics or discuss anything related to this subject.
This includes: The early races, The Gordon Bennett Cup. The Vanderbilt Cup. The American Grand Prize, Indy500 or any other American races, Brooklands, LeMans, Grandprix, Voiturettes, Cyclecars, Mille Miglia, Targa Florio, Hillclimb, posters, stamps, art, clothes of the day{or lack of} and how it has influenced the manufacturers and the common guy. {the hotrodder}

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE MOTORCYCLES AND LANDSPEED RECORD RACING. THE LATTER DESERVING A THREAD OF IT"S OWN.

NOTE
I purposely made the cutoff year of 1944 for obvious reasons but i hope to start another thread some time later covering the time after WWII. A time when men came home with many skills and motor racing was a completely different animal.
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'33 Maserati 8CM

'34 Alfa P3

 

Tom, { I think that's your name but don't shoot if i'm wrong }

I also think the converted sprintcar is an interesting piece but to be quite honest, it doesn't belong here. Let's stay within the time frame as the title suggests and not deviate away from the spirit of the thread.

Cheers, Ivan.

 

Refried, If you know the Whitney Straight Maserati is OK you can finure out how to remove the 5 wheeled thing, and read the guidelines.

 

As I mentioned in my email to you it does not fit here either....You are more than welcome to post photos of racing cars from the era , just post under the guide lines that Kurtis laid out....

 

Paul Chenard pencil sketch on foamcore.

 

QUIZ TIME.

Name the gentlemen, the car and if you're feeling lucky, name the truck...where and what year.

 

Ruckstell in his Mercer at ??

 

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Toland Nicholson w/a factory Hudson racer at Ascot, 1919...

 

Can anyone identify this event ?? The car is an early highwheeler....

 

Thank you for posting an awesome thread

 

Corona, CA. 26th. November 1914.

Started 6th. finished 8th. after 107 laps/ out of fuel.

Is there any literature available online for the Ruckstell rear axle and how this same gentleman developed it?

 

Sig Ferrari, Alfa, OM truck

 

Correct so far.

Do you recognize the person next to Enzo?

 

The truck is a 1928-29 Model AA Ford with an accessorie rear axle added. I'll check "Ford Trucks from 1905" for a matching photo and post it later.

 

Standing next to Enzo Ferrai is Tazio Nuvolari.

 

Here's a brief history... http://www.chaffinsgarage.com/l-z/ruckstell.htm

 

I was thinking something similar when I came across this pic of Irving Barker sic in uniform outside a Washington dealership.
The second pic is also titled Irving Barker ICB, doh!
The war seems to have brought an end to the Mid Atlantic Motor Associatian and their plans for a National Speedway Association home at Benning, still it had a nice gas station in 1925

 

These are crops of a couple of big TIFs from the LOC. The first one is titled 'Weightman Special Bennings 1916' but doesn't identify the car in the foreground which I suspect is Joe Dickinson's Stutz, described in one report as identical to the Weightman.
It appears to be a practice with the spectators outside the perimeter fence, as far as I can tell the Weightman Special only appeared at Benning the once at the 1916 Thanksgiving meet.
The second pic is titled Benning 1917 but Joe from New Jersey doesn't seem to have appeared there then. Does anyone know how many of these privateer Stutz-Delage-Wisconsins were built and if the white squadron cars used the same B-16 Wisconsin. I note the intake manifold looks different on the Weightman today than the period pic of Miss Blevins with the hood up.