I came across these on http://driverphoto.foroactivo.com/t37p40-la-historia-en-fotos-del-gp-de-monaco
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Showing posts with label racing. Show all posts
1937 Monaco Grand Prix photos are how great race photos should be taken
I came across these on http://driverphoto.foroactivo.com/t37p40-la-historia-en-fotos-del-gp-de-monacoa glimpse of Gordon Bennett trophy racing in 1904
Coincidentally http://theoldmotor.com/ just posted about the 1904 Gordon Bennett Napier racecar at http://theoldmotor.com/?p=26434
and also filled us in on the background of the GB Cup Race: James Gordon Bennett, the wealthy owner of the New York Herald newspaper in 1900 organized a race between teams, each representing their national automobile club. This for several years was the most important race of the year. The race was driven on public roads in the country of the previous winner. In 1902 the Gordon Bennett Trophy won by a British Napier. Auto Racing was not allowed on public roads in Great Britain, and the 1903 race was held in Ireland. Napier’s cars were painted green for this race, the national color of Ireland, in honor of the host country. Napier was as a result the first car that was painted in what we now refer to as “British Racing Green”.
found on http://books.google.com/books?id=zHnVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA544&dq=belgian++pipe&hl=en&ei=PchGTpqyGMapsAKPnrSSCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=belgian%20%20pipe&f=false
and also filled us in on the background of the GB Cup Race: James Gordon Bennett, the wealthy owner of the New York Herald newspaper in 1900 organized a race between teams, each representing their national automobile club. This for several years was the most important race of the year. The race was driven on public roads in the country of the previous winner. In 1902 the Gordon Bennett Trophy won by a British Napier. Auto Racing was not allowed on public roads in Great Britain, and the 1903 race was held in Ireland. Napier’s cars were painted green for this race, the national color of Ireland, in honor of the host country. Napier was as a result the first car that was painted in what we now refer to as “British Racing Green”.
found on http://books.google.com/books?id=zHnVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA544&dq=belgian++pipe&hl=en&ei=PchGTpqyGMapsAKPnrSSCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=belgian%20%20pipe&f=false
912 Porsche customized for racing, glass replaced with plexiglass, door handles and stainless trim replaced with plastic (?) and window cranks replaced with leather pulls straps
a variety of interesting things found while browsing through the library online photos
delivery truck,
electric car,
junkyard,
Mercedes Benz,
Oldsmobile,
racing,
racing. LSR,
Selden,
Stanley,
tour bus,
van,
WW2
George B. Selden in his first automobile, patented 1895... but marked 1877 because that was the year he made it. 
a photo of the first automobile
1886 Benz
1903 Olds Pirate, a one cylinder special race car that held a record for the one mile speed record
1907 sports racer
1906 Stanley
Suposed to be the first limo in America
J. M. Quinby & Company; Builders of aluminum automobile bodies 1909
Mercer
I noticed the odd sign above the storefront "Automobile Jobbers"
1944 east 138th street ... and that truck bed in the bottom of the photo looks handmade, and put into the rumble seat area... was the neat trick to shift a car classification during fuel rationing during WW2 from car to commercial truck and then it could get more gas more often if I recall correctly.. and this is a 1944 photo
Electric car about 1905, on the charger in the garage
the caption on the side says "Brooklyn Auto Graveyard"
The Czar leaving the racecourse at Krasnoe Selo, in his 40 horse-power Delaunay Belleville in 1909
Above racing at Indy
Above and below, racing at Ormand Beach
Barney Oldfield in the advertising
the trophys from the 1908 Prince Henry tour
1922 advertisement
the caption to the above drawing seems to be "When Greek meets Greek" and I don't understand it
this advertisement was captioned "his Herreshoff car"
The Pullman car Palmyra
Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan. December 23, 1935
found while searching around at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital
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