History Auto racing 1894-1942

Citroen C4 - 1932:




"In 1932, Henri de la Sayette entered a Citroën C4 Roadster in the 24-hour race at Le Mans – and it remains the only Citroën ever to have competed in the famous race.
Henri was 27 years old and had inherited a large sum from his father six years previously, which he’d spent on cars. The second driver was Charles Wolf, who in fact was the only one that actually drove the Citroën in the race. The car lasted three laps before expiring on the circuit with electrical problems."

http://www.classicsmonthly.com/2010/04/07/lady-brits-herald-first-citroen-le-mans-return-since-1932/

 

1907 Postcard mailed in North Carolina.....

 

An early race at the Overland Park track in Colorado.

 

1922 GP de l'A.C.F. @ Strasbourg.
Rolland Pilain A22 team of #6 Albert Guyot and #19 Louis Wagner. Both suffered engine troubles after 2 laps and DNF.

 

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1922 GP de l'A.C.F.
BUGATTI 30 - Jacques Mones-Maury.

 

Is he asking "How do start this?"

 

Models A's and Chevrolets at Overland Park near Denver....

 

1922 GP de l'A.C.F.
Pietro Bordino - FIAT 804. He was classified in 4th place after losing a rear wheel on 58 laps.

This was the first GP under the newly adopted 2 Litre-650 Kg formula.

 

Barney Oldfield somewhere in Alberta, Canada.

 

Topolino landracer 80+mph in 1938

 

OH come on Bluto- that's a picture of your old soap box derby car.
(sorry, not in keeping with the intent of the topic- but I couldn't let him get away with that!)

Herb Kephart

 

Great photo as always.....

 

For those of you in the Dallas area....Manifolds on Main street is this weekend. Bart Stevens puts on a good show there.... and speaking of Dallas, anyone got any more postcard photos or any photos from the Dallas area from pre WWII thru the 1950s they can share, A friend of mine is doing a presentation for Manifolds on Main street. He could use a couple of photos of tracks in that era.
Thanks in advance if you do.
HG

 

Herb

That's a real car, and not mine

http://www.fiatmotorclubgb.org/Cars/rbt.htm

Guess I posted this to say not everyone had a sexy car to race and win. AND I knew no one would ever post it if I didn't

 

"Do not be misled by the conning tower, which
suggests that the driver's head is enclosed; there
is a gap between the front and rear portions, as
Cecchini has to breath like the rest of us."​

"THE BLOWER", WRITING IN THE LIGHT CAR MAGAZINE, JUNE 1938​

Jim, are you saying it's not a sexy car? Obviously it's not as cute as the production "little mouse" that became popular amongst the dragracing fraternity but personally i like it. I posted a photo of it on the Pre WWII thread asking for more pictures but i guess it got overlooked.

At Monza, the driver set speed records for 80-, 161- and 322-km [50-, 100- and 200-mile] stints at 137.42kph[85.39mph], 138.69kph[86.18mph], and 131.92kph[81.97mph] respectively. Not bad for a car originally intended as a city runabout.

 

Lining up the cars for what appears to be a Motel T based racing class behind the AAA truck at Overland Park Colo.

 

"CLIMB TO THE CLOUDS" Mt. Washington
Won by Harry S. Harkness 1904




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Is this the on in the Ford collection? Glad you finally found it.

 

TWIN 6 Is coming here for lunch today.....After lunch we are going out for a test drive in a Mercer Raceabout just like this one that Ralph Depalma is driving. Should be fun...... We will see if we can get at speed photos going down the road...

 

Give T6 a couple of spare tires to hold while you're exiting a corner at speed. That would be an excellent photo.

 

Back: I took dozens of photos with T-Head's nice camera, but something nasty happened to his computer while downloading them (we like 90 year old technology better). I only took a few shots with my Fisher-Price and of those, these will give you a feel for the ride. Wish we'd had an Imax crew on the back. They'd have been clinging to the spares. The car got some well deserved exercise at the hands of a master, and I was pleased to be along for the ride.

 

Nice shots. I think there is a limited market for "I've Riden with T-Head in a MERCER" T shirts.

 

Will Jones and his beastly 1911 Indy Case...

 

Lewis Strang's...

 

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There is no market for them.....Other than for polishing rags.....

 

Like ''My wife is in the 200 Club'' shirts