Ormond/Daytona Beach – 1910

Fourteen files document Barney Oldfield’s world land speed record run in March 1910. Oldfield acquired the famous “Blitzen Benz,” renamed it the “Lightning Benz” and drove it to 131.7 MPH to set the new record. At the time, the speed was the fastest any person had traveled in any kind of vehicle – car, train or airplane.

Kaiser Wires "Daring Yankee"

In yet another item from Barney Oldfield's personal scrapbook his record runs at Daytona Beach in March 1910 are described. Driving the 200 HP "Blitzen Benz," Oldfield dazzled the world with then-incredible speeds of 131.720 mph for a flying start mile and 142 mph for a flying on start two miles. He also set records in the kilometer and from standing starts.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Cable Gram

This article is one of the few from Barney Oldfield's scrapbook that allows us to identify the source: The Toledo Times. The article was originally published sometime shortly after Oldfield's land speed record run with the Blitzen Benz.
The Fastest Thing on Wheels

This article package includes items from Literary Digest and Popular Mechanics. The most important of which is the Literary Digest item titled "The Fastest Thing on Wheels." Barney Oldfield's land speed record runs at Daytona Beach underscored a milestone in automotive engineering - when the car became the fastest vehicle on Earth. From the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth century the railroad locomotive held that distinction.
Speed King of the World

This is a nice piece from an unnamed newspaper that was clipped and pasted in Barney Oldfield's personal scrapbook. It describes the atmosphere in Daytona Beach after Oldfield's startling 131.720 mph record for the measured mile. Charming descriptions of Barney tooling around the little town of Daytona on his bicycle and mingling with people in the area are examples of the feel you'll get for the context of this piece of history.
Oldfield Speed Records

This package is a selection of tables covering the key speed records as they existed in 1910. Oldfield's 131.7 world land speed record triggered tremendous interest in these milestones in 1910.

These files are a mix of events from different points in Barney Oldfield's career.

It's a New Track Record

This is a pair of articles on race meets that featured Barney Oldfield and his Peerless Green Dragon. It is apparent one meet took place in Latonia, Kentucky in September. I believe the year was 1906.
Oldfield Barnstorming 1909

This package contains two articles, both of which I believe are from 1909. The article that talks about Barney Oldfield's perparations for a race meet at the Montgomery, Alabama fairgrounds track is almost certainly from 1909. The other, from an event in Erie, Pennsylvania, is probably from the same year, but I am not as confident.
Oldfield Accident - Bess Oldfield Injured

This is an interesting grouping of articles that I believe are from 1908. The item on preparations for the Briarcliff Trophy (New York) is definitely from 1908 because the drivers listed in that event (including Emanuel Cedrino, who was killed a month later in an auto race at Pimlico), were the competitors of that year.
Oldfield Street Accident Redux

This is a haphazard selection of articles, mostly focusing on the street accident Barney Oldfield had in a touring car at Lowell in, I believe, late May 1908. Apparently, he was touring the proposed course for the Lowell Road Race to be held later that summer. Bess Oldfield, his wife, was most seriously hurt with a wrenched back. Note that the scrapbook also includes an errant article from September 1903 (it discusses Oldfield on the Winton Bullet II, which he drove from August 1903 through April 1904) comingled with the other items from Lowell Massachusetts in 1908.
Christmas 1909: Oldfield at Ascot

Barney Oldfield apparently appeared at Ascot Park in Southern California on Christmas 1909. This content is better referred to as a "clip" than an article. It is a fragment of an article supplemented by some images. Still, it conveys enough information to know that it was originally published December 26, 1909 and that a race meet attended by some 7,000 people marveled at Barney Oldfield in his Knox defeating Ben Kirscher in the Darracq that won the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup with Lewis Wagner at the wheel.