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Slow down, slow down! :D At this rate you're going to have Fangio covered by midnight, and Michael Schumacher before breakfast!! Welcome, by the...
Charlie Hoffer was indeed from upstate New York, Albany to be exact. Ran a white #67 Riley Special in the second half of the thirties, mainly for...
It's a European/International Formula 3 car, also known as Voiturette or Cyclecar - in effect, it's what a Midget is known as outside of the USA,...
Good catch! That's Arthur Miller in one of the original 1910 Warren-Detroit racers (4" bore * 4" 1/2 stroke = 226 CID, rated at 30 HP), and ZigZag...
That's Walt Killinger with the (Harvey) Ward/Miller. Looks like Pikes Peak, where he ran this car a couple times, finishing third in 1934 and...
Sadly, no! For some reason, I was sure we had discussed this very car on the pages of this thread, but can't now find my notes on it, and no...
Yep. Duesenberg Model A engined special from the New York area, as I recall. The name was Joe Savage, if I'm not mistaken, but I will have to...
I shouldn't have said "unique", because we don't know whether it really is or was the only one of its kind, but it sure as hell is distinctive. I...
That car is clearly younger than 1931! Forget the #, there were probably dozens of #91s running in the forties, and the number could change...
They wouldn't have been used much for cruising. The license tag was mostly to get the cars to the racing venues - saves on towing car expense!
That's Myron Fohr in the 1938 Marchese/Miller - note the Bob Wilke sponsorship! Earlier photos show the Lencki dirt car first with Offenhauser...
Sorry, I'm no use on cars with a roof!
Josh, any luck so far finding info or pics of this car? Just the other day, I found out this car was entered for the 1946 Indy 500 (Bee-Gee...
Fritz Wilson didn't compete in the open-wheel class in 1965, and finished only fifth in the stock car class, driving a 1964 Ford. Wrong year?
According to this guy, https://www.oldracingcars.com/indy/hartz/, yes! ;)
The painting shows the car like it looks today, as an exhibit in the IMS museum. The car landed there right after its last race, about fifteen...
The Alley/Miller ("Pan-American Special", "Bender Special" etc.) was driven in 1921 extensively by Ray Claypool, and occasionally by Verne Soules....
Now to Ben Gotoff, who raced as "Ben Giroix" only in 1917 (I don't know why, probably just showmanship). I have for him 65 appearances from 1915...
As for that Mercer mystery photo at the end of the second article, that's of course Tacoma Speedway in Washington, unmistakably. But the mystery...
Thanks for the article, Jim, I hadn't read it so far. If Gebby thought it was one of the 1915 Mercers, then I guess his whole point is moot. I...
So, what do you think, Jim, are there Mercer genes in this Pan-American/Bender? When I looked into this claim several years past, I identified one...
Not a sedan, but a Rickenbacker-engined special. A Fuerza Libre race, won by a 1938 Grand Prix Alfa Romeo.
Has to be 1917, because it still has the original bodywork which was removed before its first race in 1918. The only actual accident I have...
I think the owner is Dick Morris of Arlington/VA, and the driver probably Danny Daniels of Batavia/NY. Sorry, no idea about the mechanic. Based on...
Yes, definitely a different chassis. Probably built in the Midwest, late twenties. There were a few similar looking cars around in period, I'm...
Sadly, the Big Six is far from "near-original specification" today. Last time I saw it, the body was way off in dimensions.
Thanks for the additional information. I ignored the Little Six because I was concentrating on the "junk formula" - those cars were totally...
Blueprint, engine displacements are found in the "Illustrated History of the Indianapolis 500" books by the aforementioned Jack Fox. There are...
Though "course de côte" literally translates to "coast race", it actually means "hill climb"! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_de_c%C3%B4te :)
Generally, the displacement limits were only exploited by the "semi stock" racers, which weren't much of a thread anyway. A few Duesenberg (4,300...
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