Street Racing Cars For Sale

found on http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/08/edwardians-in-colour/

 1909 WC Fields in the back of his American Traveler

 1921 to 1924 Jack Dempsey behind the wheel of a very special McFarlan roadster

 1926 Babe Ruth being given an Auburn roadster

 Clark Gable in his famous 1936 Model J Duesenburg body by Bohman & Schwartz

The wonderful Mickey Rooney (loved his performance in Black Stallion) in a 1949 movie The Big Wheel

all found on http://theoldmotor.com/

 This was a jab at the outspoken nut reactionists who didn't want the automobiles to be legal and on the same roads as the horse and carriages. Auto's were loud, fast, and unknown. Sorta the same reaction that Rock and Roll of the 50's, and hot rodders of the 40's had to deal with. So when the Sportsman in the above image asked about the motorist killing anything it was indicating the conservative notion of the old folks that autos were going to wantonly kill pedestrians, horses, and whatever else was in it's way. Maybe there was a thread of truth, because no one was familiar with engines, gasoline, batteries, and powerful cars... all dangerous, explosive, and in the hands of people with zero experience with the dangers of each.

All found on  http://theoldmotor.com/

found on http://theoldmotor.com/?p=507 

Italian Zust which finished third to the Thomas Flyer and twenty two days behind the German Protos

Found on http://theoldmotor.com/?p=15096

For a gallery of close ups on each of the kids cars, and the story behind the family: http://theoldmotor.com/?p=16131

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

found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

 1885 horseless carriages in Russia

 1893 Haynes with E. Haynes in both photos. It was the first successful automobile in America

 1901 Franklin

 1902 Cadillac

 1904 Caddilac

 1907 Isotta Fraschini (really shiny paint)

 1908 Ford, the first model T

 1916 Studebaker landaulet roadster (I've got thought that a roadster can't be a landaulet, and vice versa)

 1925 Lincoln club roadster with body by LeBaron

 1925 Locomobile

1929 Studebaker with Neysa McMein (great first name) she was a designer at Studebaker

Found digging through the photos at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/