this is the first time I've seen Barney's rail car

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28766619762993925&set=gm.3273271199532774&idorvanity=527146584145263

thank you Marc for letting me know about Barney Oldfield Day at Museum of Fulton County! I didn't know that he became a movie star and even owned the “Oldfield/Kipper Saloon” in Los Angeles, which previously was the the Old Crow Bar, opened in 1906. They hadn't licensed the name from Old Crow liquor though, and were sued

1913... there's a parking garage there now... I bet Barney would hate the idea of a parking garage instead of a saloon, a race track would probably be fine, btu a parking garage? That's insulting to the memory of a race car driver

His car racing career began in 1902 when fledgling automobile designer Henry Ford hired him to race his model 999 car.

Barney was the first automobile racer to achieve a mile a minute

William Nolan, in his book “The Barney Oldfield” story, states that Oldfield took money earned from barnstorming to form a partnership with a former railroad conductor by the name of Jack Kipper. They took over the location and opened the Oldfield Kipper Saloon in late 1912.

Finally tiring of the saloon trade, Oldfield sold out in 1920 to the Rappaport Brothers, who operated a hattery business out of the building. In 1923 they changed their name to the New York Hat Co., continuing to operate through 1939

By the late 1940s, a Western Union Telegraph Office operated at 534 S. Spring St. Over the next ten years they would be robbed seven times.

https://www.crescent-news.com/special/entertainment/barney-oldfield-day-at-museum-of-fulton-county/article_48cdd6a7-7be0-43ba-8df4-e7742d46debf.html

https://ladailymirror.com/2016/09/26/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-barney-oldfield-sets-up-shop-in-downtown-los-angeles/

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/articles/detail/articles/2022/03/29/barney-oldfield-america-s-racer

Barney and the 999

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/517/

wow, interesting that they went retro on the artwork in the ad for this whisky, and used Barney Oldfield, and the Peerless Green Dragon... I suppose it was an effort to not cast the implication that current drivers would drink and race, but rested on the notion that in the good old days of 1910 or so, it was common place, and totally fine

 https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2024/08/p-m-whiskey.html

You had to be really famous to get this size advertising, circus type advertising

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527146584145263

Barney Oldfield's Golden Submarine Event Poster

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/hf23/hershey/lots/k0050-barney-oldfields-golden-submarine-event-poster/1396351

Barney Oldfield in a Locomobile in 1906

homage tribute build to the Barney Oldfield Golden Submarine

nice homages to a couple legends

https://www.instagram.com/jeffhotrod/?hl=en

from the barnstorming days

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8154618467912882&set=gm.1202428707004716&idorvanity=197491484165115

A load of Barney Oldfield tires, because to have a dependable tire, depends on how many spare tires you have

Jacky Wilkens and Otto Freidenshon, together known as The Tire Guys shown here just one day before they took off on their new Lincoln Highway adventure.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-475#post-13529957

wouldn't it have been great to stop by and meet Barney while buying some tires?

then again, I don't think any people who put their name on a business are ever around to meet customers. 

https://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=printthread&Board=4&main=35500&type=thread

Barney Oldfield and Ty Cobb in a Benz

https://www.facebook.com/groups/958434190977482/permalink/1339127726241458/

Barney Oldfield getting mobbed for an autograph

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/uic_cop/id/435/rec/8

Barney Oldfield; car in front of Kinkead-Wilson Motor Company, 1932

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=40&per_page=20

The ex-Barney Oldfield, Eddie Maier c.1908 BENZ 75/105HP Prinz-Heinrich Raceabout

In 1908, the Prinz Heinrich Tour, a famous German race named after Prince Heinrich of Prussia – an ardent fan of the nascent sport of motor racing, was won by a Benz. In commemoration of this, Benz produced a limited series of factory racers and called them Prinz Heinrich models. One of just 10 ever created and of fewer surviving, Bothwell's extremely rare 1908 Benz 105hp Prinz Heinrich is the genuine article and was campaigned in period and then used by Bothwell and friends in historic racing events in the renaissance of the hobby.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24733/lot/420/?category=list&length=10&page=39

Sold for $1.87 million http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24733/#/aa0=5&MR0_length=90&w0=results&aj0=lot_number_asc&m0=0

old ads from 1916

Barney Oldfield demonstrating the Beverly Hills racetrack banked curves

Found on https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.bracquemond.7?fref=nf

tractor racers Ab Jenkins and Barney Oldfield, publicity men for Firestone tires and Allis Chalmers

It was in 1932 that Harvey Firestone, owner of Firestone Tire, had three Allis-Chalmers tractors built, not for their pulling power, but for speed. They were the first tractors to be fitted with rubber tires.

Firestone hired celebrity race drivers, including Jenkins and Barney Oldfield, one of the most famous of the early auto racers, to engage in tractor races at county fairs and agricultural events.

Famed race car drivers like Frank Brisko, Barney Oldfield, and Ab Jenkins performed in front of an estimated 1 million people during 1933 alone.
http://www.agriculture.com/machinery/tractors/antique-tractor/allischalmers-u_201-ar15591

http://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18003&title=barney-oldfield-and-the-allis-chalmers-999
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/09/15/land-speed-tractors-oldfield-v-jenkins/comment-page-1/#comment-9772041

There were promotional field demos, pairing a Model U on steel against one on rubber. And to literally drive the point home a fleet of U’s equipped with a high-speed fourth gear raced at tracks across the country.

One of the tractors was on loan to the Ardell Brown Classic Car Center in Salt Lake City in 2004.

Firestone believed the high-speed tractors would be a way he could show farmers that his rubber tires were a technical marvel, not a gimmick.

The agriculture market was skeptical of the new rubber tires. Tractors, at the time, ran on metal rims.

Firestone hired celebrity race drivers, including Jenkins and Barney Oldfield, one of the most famous of the early auto racers, to engage in tractor races at county fairs and agricultural events.

Jenkins eventually took one of the tractors to Bonneville Salt Flats to set a land-speed record. In 1935, he drove the tractor at 68 miles per hour through a one-mile course. He later was given a belt bucket inscribed, "The World's Fastest Farmer."

Eldon Kearl, who facilitated the loan of the tractor, said his research shows the tractor was purchased by a farmer, who found that it had no power but could go fast. It was later purchased by an Ohio man, Randall Sheffied, who planned to use the tractor to plow fields. He, too, found the tractor had no pulling power but went much faster than he wanted. Research told him the tractor was not meant to plow fields but to race.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595096478/This-tractor-was-built-for-speed.html?pg=all
http://antiquetractorsforum.com/showthread.php/84-Allis-Chalmers-first-in-rubber-and-racing

War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940 By Paul W. Glad

As serious a look as there ever was on the visage of a race car driver... consider, up to this moment, humans rarely moved faster over the ground than a race horse could gallop. Only jumping off a cliff could get you faster, and looking at the controls in Barney Oldfield's hands, without much more control. This is

I only see the nearest tire, being strapped to the rim, or it's painted with stripes... as I do not see the lines on the tire going across the rim

this is Barney and Henry Ford, and the famous 999

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/48585