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Showing posts with label Vanderbilt Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vanderbilt Cup. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Most famous Locomobile ever, the "Old 16". Winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup, it beat the worlds best, and here Paul Newman pays tribute. Is that cool or what!?!
0 comments Posted by st at 4:53 PM
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The first front wheel drive car, the 1905 Christie 4 cylinder Vanderbilt cup racecar
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Above photo from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ 
Walter Christie was involved in the engineering of many other vehicles, steamships, submarines, aircraft and fire engines coincidentally, and this past weekend I and Justacargal were examining the one at the Nethercutt museum just North of Los Angeles in the San Fernando valley: http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/03/1913-christie-fire-engine.html
the 3 some of race cars at the 1908 Minnesota state fair is from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ 
At one time, it had a second engine on the rear wheels, in the same transverse powering it's own axle 
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