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Good grief, you were still in high school when I had already bombed out of college and got drafted!
It was not a "World's Fair," but rather the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco that opened to the public on 20 February...
Why am I not surprised? Give yourself the point for posting a response.
Actually, the photograph is from 1902 when the Baker Torpedo participated in the 31 May speed trials on Staten Island (flying kilometer and mile)....
Yes.
Auto-Union nomenclature: Typ 1934 = "Type A" Typ 1935 = "Type B" Typ 1936 = "Type C" Typ 1938 = "Type D" Apparently, the "Alphabet Soup"...
Lee, Good to know that Phil's material is apparently available for use at the Benson Ford. You confirmed one of the issues that I had earlier...
I simply provided a convenient means to see how the discussion regarding the identities of the various cars evolved over the years. Another lesson...
Something I meant to mention earlier regarding why Russ Catlin as an "auto racing historian" -- and many, many others, for that matter -- is...
Mike, My first notice of Phil Harms' work was in the Wallen books on the 50's and 60's published during the 90's and the the book he did with...
Jim, Until about the mid-to-late-1990s, I really had not given Russ Catlin or the A.A.A. national championships very much thought, despite having...
Thanks to Jim Dillon for laying out the background to the scoring issues related to the inaugural International 500 Mile Sweepstakes race. There...
The quotation is -- besides being complete baloney -- obviously from someone other than a historian, of course. There were never any retractions...
Keep in mind that AQ printed a number of articles written by Russ Catlin, all of which tended to be hogwash and containing very mangled...
Contrary to popular opinion, records of the A.A.A. Contest Board prior to 1931 certainly DO exist. On the microfilm that Gordon White managed to...
Any more on this? Inquiring minds would like to know more about this "revelation."
I would suggest that the "celebrity" is possibly Jimmy Doolittle, then a major in the Air Corps Reserve and winner of the Thompson Trophy at the...
SAH International Motor Sport History Section Recently, I was appointed as the chair for the International Motor Sport History Section of the...
Has the image been independently verified as being correctly dated? Some of us have been through this drill in the past, with the image being...
The first use of the checked flag in an automotive contest was during the 1906 Glidden Cup tour and it was then used later that year in the...
Anyone aware if there will be a 2014 Verizon INDYCAR Historical Record Book published this year? I am curious as to whether/how INDYCAR will...
Well, chassis '2523' never existed, being a new plate put on '2501' in 1958 by the factory, as well as being used at various times on '2507' and...
For those who might be interested, here is a link to a paper on the Maserati 250F:...
It might have been George Heath, driving a Panhard, at the Circuit des Ardennes (held in the vicinity of Bastogne) on 25 July 1904.
Take a look at Harold Osmer's Where They Raced books which should give you all the venues in the LA area.
https://www.academia.edu/6412424/The_Catlin_Russo_Files https://www.academia.edu/6412432/The_Catlin_Russo_Files_closer_look...
A Congressman can use his campaign "contributions" for pretty much anything, to include Web services.
It was a one lap exhibition, not a race.
Works both ways, furball. Nope. That is where I thought this was headed. Assuming that Nuvolari, De Palma, and Swanson actually met, further...
Well, Bozo Boob, I have serious doubts about the veracity of quotation, especially given if the source to be cited is what I suspect it is.
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