Showing posts with label Packard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Packard. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011




read about (and see a gallery of the modern recreation of the race car that broke Wintons land speed record for the 5 mile course at Daytona Beach at http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15142/Packard-Model-K-S-Gray-Wolf.aspx

Saturday, August 13, 2011









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

Thursday, August 11, 2011

 I missed noting on this photo what this car is. But Greg identified it as a 'Duesenberg Model J'
 Billie Burke in San Francisco's Presidio Park drving her Studebaker
 Century
 Dodge... with a chauffer? In a Dodge? Really?
 Henry Ford in his first automobile
 Franklin
 1927 Holland Tunnel in New York
 New York hot dog stand 1935 in Manhattan
 a safety idea that didn't stick
 1909 flight of the Wright brothers... but look at the elegant horse carriage
 Lady Astor, a parliament member in  England and her Terraplane
 a Packard 12, 7 passenger limo
 Panhard and Levassor
 Regal
 This Supercharged Graham 120 won over 4 other v8 autos in a contest to win the favor of this fire dept chief

 REO Flying Cloud
 The first Oldsmobile, 1896

A Winton stripped down for racing
all found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

 32 Plymouth
 33 Buick
 37 Chevy taxi
 37 Cord Phaeton Sedan
 37 Westchester sedan
 37 Graham
37 series 95 Cavalier
1937 Packard 120

Sunday, August 7, 2011











For a full gallery of this 1929 Graham Paige Sound Train movie promoting vehicle from last years Speedfest: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/san-diego-1929-graham-paige-sound-train.html

 

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