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Manufacturers Advertise July 1910 Speedway Success

By: Mark Dill

This is a nice collection of advertisements from automobile manufacturers and suppliers that ran the day after the first day of the July 1910 race meet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Not only are they interesting, but they are great quick references for the results of the races. Worth the time.
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H.G. Day in 1913

The original source reports that this is a photo of H.G. Day in a Talbot at the Caerphilly Hillclimb in 1913.

Vanderbilt Cup on Broadway

10/09/2009

In my blog yesterday I discussed the 105th anniversary of America's first great auto race, the Vanderbilt Cup. This event, ran on Long Island, New York, was wildly popular, attracting by some estimates a quarter of a million people in 1906 and 1910. Evidence of its cultural impact was the 1906 production of a Broadway musical staring a teenage singing and acting sensation, Elsie Janis.

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