1948 - "The First Annual Hot Rod Exposition and Automotive Equipment Display. The Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), who sponsored this exposition, ran hot rod events at southern California's dry lakes. Hollywood Associates photograph.
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This is the Official Program for the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup race held on Long Island, New York. George Robertson won the race in an American-built vehicle, "Old 16," a 1906 Locomobile. Benson Ford Research Center photograph.
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View of Teddy Tetzlaff and passenger racing Fiat car no. 33 past spectators during the 1912 Vanderbilt Cup races in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Detroit Public Library photograph.
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View of George Clark with Mercedes car no. 28 at pits during the 1912 Vanderbilt Cup races in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Start-Finish" banner is suspended over road; press stand in background. Soldiers stand near car. Detroit Public Library photograph.
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Lloyd 600. The Goggomobile is smaller, more slab-sided and has the shape of fenders pressed in, front and rear. There were a couple of drag Lloyd altereds in period. I've never seen a Goggomobile drag car built in the HAMB-era. Photograph and information from HOTRODPRIMER.
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1939 - Eduardo Pedrazzini, pictured above in a Ford V-8 is getting the checkered flag at the finish line near Buenos Aires as winner of the 1000-mile Argentine road race, which he drove at the average speed of nearly a mile a minute. Boston Public Library photograph.
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1932 - Aerial View of Indianapolis Speedway. An aerial view of the home stretch straightaway of the 2½ mile track at Indianapolis, Ind., where the 500-mile annual race memorial day will attract the world’s leading race drivers. Associated Press photograph.
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Around 1920, the Maumee River attracted hydroplane racing. This is a view of the Miss America II, a winning hydroplane series being developed in Detroit. Toledo Lucas County Public Library photograph.
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Preparing hydroplanes for Maumee River races around 1920. This photograph is from around 1920, when the early step hydroplanes were being developed and improved. On the coveralls of one of the men is the identify of Miss America. Toledo Lucas County Public Library photograph.
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1920 view of men preparing to race their cars at a Fourth of July automobile race at the Fort Miami Fairgrounds in Maumee, Ohio as spectators look on. Toledo Lucas County Public Library photograph.
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23rd Grand Prix de Monaco, May 1965. Graham Hill entered the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix having won the Formula One race the previous two years. Hill would successfully navigate the streets of Monte Carlo to take his third straight. Dean Batchelor photograph .
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