This is a two-part series of articles that ran in the Saturday Evening Post in 1925. They are an autobiographical overview Oldfield wrote with the assistance of William Sturm. I judge some of this material to be inaccurate, not because Oldfield embellished (not that I put it past him), but because I think he simply forgot things.
Wayne Carroll Petersen, a Barney Oldfield expert and a relative of the old "master driver" by marriage pointed out that Oldfield worked as a stunt driver for Chrysler in 1934. Check out the background behind this Chrysler promotional campaign, which included a film entitled "Death Cheaters' Holiday," which not only featured Oldfield but drivers Billy Arnold and Harry Hartz as well.