1953 Hoosier Hundred

Very cool to see the program of the 1953 Hoosier Hundred championship dirt car race.
16th Street Speedway

Read about that "other" speedway on 16th Street in Indianapolis.
Jean Shepherd's Indy 500 Childhood Memory

Christmas Story author Jean Shepherd applies his folksy writing style to a remembrance of his childhood trip with his dad and uncle to the Indy 500.
Barney @ St. Paul

This article in attachment Oldfield at St. Paul Motor Age July 1908 is about a race meet Barney Oldfield participated in in July 1908 at a track in St. Paul, Minnesota. His Arch Rival Ralph De Palma also competed.
William Bourque Dominates Beach Race

This article is from an August 1908 issue of Motor Age and describes how William Bourque, the first driver to lose his life at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, dominated the events of the day Wildwood-By-the-Sea in New Jersey.
Death of Panhard

This article from an August 1908 issue of Motor Age provides a good obit of Rene Panhard.

This folder contains three excellent articles on the early days of the French Grand Prix. The race was initiated in 1906 but canceled from 1909 through 1911 as the French absorbed disappointing losses in 1907 and 1908. The race returned in 1912 only to be interrupted after 1914 by World War I.

1908 French Grand Prix

Attached is great coverage from Motor Age of the 1908 French Grand Prix won by a German factory worker, Chirstian Lautenschlager, who also won the 1914 French Grand Prix. Lautenschlager also competed in the 1923 Indianapolis 500.
1908 French Grand Prix 2

This article complements another on the 1908 French Grand Prix found elsewhere on First Super Speedway.

During the 1914 racing season promoter Will Pickens worked with Barney Oldfield and the renowned aviator Lincoln Beachey to stage the "Championship of the Universe." The men barnstormed the country, playing to more remote areas at county fair horse tracks. The premise was that Oldfield would race his automobiles against Beachey's biplanes for the ultimate championship. The program was extremely successful, netting the men over $250,000 - worth millions by today's value of money.

Beachey

Oldfield & Beachey

Carl Fisher and James Allison’s Prest-O-Lite Corporation marketed compressed gas canisters initially used to fuel the first viable automobile headlights. Fisher and Allison founded the company with Percy Avery in 1904 and eventually sold the company in 1917 for millions of dollars.

Acetylene Primer

If you are interested in core technology behind Presto-O-Lite Company read the Automobile Magazine article (attachment Acetylene1)  from the early 1900's explaining how acetylene gas is created and utilized for the application of headlights. Also, I have attached a more recent draft on the history of acetylene in attachment Acetylene_History.