Barney Oldfield Images

Images from Barney Oldfield's racing career. Many of these are items collected from photocopies of newspapers preserved on microfilm. Many of the original photos have been lost to the ages, so some of these images rescued in this manner may be all that remains. While the quality is inferior by today's standards, they still provide interesting information about Oldfield and the events he participated in.

Oldfield - Cooper 1903

This image was captured at a race meet in October 1903 at Grosse Pointe, Michigan's horse track. Pictured leading is Barney Oldfield in the Winton Motor Carriage Company's Winton "Baby Bullet" racer with his long-time friend Tom Cooper trailing in the Cooper-Ford "999" racer. The Ford racer was designed by Henry Ford and remains one of the most famous American race cars of the first decade of the 20th century.

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