I'm finishing a project for my photography cl*** and was looking through some vintage photo's and came across this guy's series he did. Take a look at these, they're pretty cool piece of history. http://www.geh.org/fm/lazar/vander10_sld00001.html
By golly,there's one of those photos done with the high speed film and fast shutter speeds.Great to see all those oldtimey photos,imagine setting it all up, getting the results you wanted with all the dirt and dust flying around. Keep on roddin'.
Here is a photo of the #18 ALCO that Harry Grant won both the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt, take in 1972 at a local show. The ALCO was made in Rhode Island by the American Locomotive Co. last I knew the car was in Europe.
The Alco is actually about six miles from where I am sitting here in Ann Arbor, although it is still owned by a collector in England who campaigned it regularly in vintage racing events overseas. We are trying to sell it for him. This car was ***embled by Joel Finn in Connecticut in the 1970s from the remains of an Alco touring car found in Ohio. It has an amazingly huge 90HP six cylinder T head engine in it. I have driven the car alot over the last couple of months at speeds in excess of 70mph on city roads and have certainly not come close to getting the gas pedal anywhere near the floor!!! The car was ***embled with great detail and is identical to the original 1910 Vanderbilt Cup car which no longer exists. The entire ch***is is original 1910 Alco parts. There are less than 10 Alcos in existance and this is the only six cylinder 90HP model known. Over the last thirty years conflicting stories (including an article in Automobile Quarterly) have claimed this car to be real Vanderbilt Cup car, but it is not. If anyone is interested, it can be yours for about 350K. If it was real, it would be in the millions.
Whoa....check out the size of those tires....You might need several cans of tire spray to shine those up.... Hi there Bob...How r' ya doin since Hershey...been busy? Take Care Sandy
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