Chuck Conners, from Detroit, Michigan, was a race car driver, and spent time in Helena Montana with a Chevrolet on an endurance run (Billings Gazette, July 16, 1929)

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=565686045591551&set=a.546419567518199

It's cool to see hand painted lettering 

motorists in Keystone Grease truck no. 58 on Young's Pier at Atlantic City, New Jersey during the 1910 North American Run.

The reliability contest for commercial vehicles covered a route from Philadelphia to Atlantic City.

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A199196

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A199377

the 1927 Dole Air Race from Oakland to Honolulu has had some photos turn up recently

I posted about it in 2015, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-woolerac-and-tribute-room-at-frank.html but now 

https://vintageairphotos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-tragedy-and-triumph-of-dole.html  and https://www.facebook.com/photos.from.Semas/posts/3955804731102221  have added to the photos online about it, and added a lot of detail information too

for a 500 photo gallery of the Dole Air Race see https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/albums/72157667480712492

Aloha, a Breese-Wilde Model 5 then took off with Martin Jensen and Paul Schluter. Schluter wasn’t an aviator, but rather was a marine navigator who had seen an advertisement in the newspaper placed by Jensen

They were followed by the Woolaroc, named after the Oklahoma ranch of sponsor and oilman Frank Phillips, as way of promoting the company’s Nu-Aviation brand of gasoline.

see https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/albums/72157707576865405  for better ones

this is the most honest headline I've read

https://www.facebook.com/Historicautomobileenduranceruns/posts/957459771383154

Red Bull vs the D915. First the behind the scenes making of, to understand whats going on, then, the race video

a 90 H.P. Amplex race car with the Crosbie Resilient Tire and all four corners. Yeah, I've never heard of the either

supposedly he was going to make a run from San Fran to New York for the 1915 Panama – Pacific Exposition world’s fair. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/616059072308352/

the Essex car company had 4 cars cross the US in an attempt to influence the government and get mail contracts. All 4 cars finshed with an average of 4 days 21 hours and 32 minutes.

One of the most famous races took place in August 1920 and featured four Essex cars. Two started from the East Coast and two from the West Coast. Each carried a mail pouch and, like the Pony Express riders of old, relief drivers were sworn in as letter carriers. The average time for the quartet was 4 days, 21 hours and 32 minutes. The race generated tons of publicity.

http://www.inliners.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=84359&page=1

People are still driving the Alcan 5000 with 1960's cool cars!

Rally and Endurance racing fan Jeffrey Wacker and his 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente, met up with a 1966 Shelby GT 350H

“Starting in Kirkland, Washington, we worked our way north through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and into Alaska -- stopping in Whitehorse, Dawson City, Valdez, Denali, Fairbanks and the Arctic Circle

https://performance.ford.com/enthusiasts/fan-spotlight/2019/07/64-comet-jeffrey-wacker-.html?cks=420207650&emailid=FP_FASTNEWS

the lengths people will go to in order to set a record... like changing spark plugs mid air

Frequent repairs were made on the plane while it was in flight. “Spark plugs were changed, a magneto overhauled, and even a lost bolt in the engine mount replaced, as well as regular oiling of the rocker arms. For this purpose a light metal cat walk was rigged from the cabin doors to the engine on either side, and Kenneth Hunter, the younger of the four brothers, made regular trips to the motor. He also clambered out of the refueling door in the top of the fuselage and slid back to the tail to clear away string paper and other debris, blown back during refueling contacts, and threatening to jam the control cables.”

Daredevils, barnstormers, and record-breakers, the Hunter Brothers of Sparta were pioneers in the field of aviation, dazzling spectators around the country with feats of sport and endurance in the sky.

The four brothers – Albert, John, Kenneth, and Walter – were the sons of Alexander and Ida Blair Hunter.

The brothers first gained notoriety in Sparta for their motorcycle stunt riding. Each spring, they would ride their motorbikes to St. Louis to trade them in for newer models.
On a whim, they decided to sell their motorcycles and buy the airplane. One brother, John, was assigned to stay behind in St. Louis and learn to fly the new plane, while the other three headed back to Sparta. He managed, after only 90 minutes of instruction, to pilot the plane back across the river

Soon, they had graduated from motorcycle stunts to trick flying. By the summer of 1924, they had acquired two more planes, and they were performing air stunts with Gurney at county fairs all over Illinois and Indiana. They dubbed their act the “Hunter Flying Circus.”

All four of the Hunter Brothers began aviation careers that included airshow performances, passenger service, and even airmail delivery. They became good friends with the man who would become the most famous aviator of his age: Charles Lindbergh.

By the late 1920s, the brothers’ airmail careers had them flying all over the Midwest, in the autumn of 1929, John and Kenneth Hunter made their first serious attempt to break the endurance flight record.

The brothers managed to stay in the air for 264 hours – 11 days – but they were forced to land before breaking the record, as a heavy fog had prevented their refueling plane from making contact.

All four brothers banded together the following year to make another run at the endurance flight record.
With John and Kenneth piloting the “City of Chicago,” and Walter and Albert flying the supply plane, the brothers flew over Sky Harbor Airport in Northbrook, Illinois, for 553 hours, 41 minutes, and 30 seconds, breaking the world record for endurance flight.

The “City of Chicago” finally landed at Sky Harbor on July 4, 1930, in front of a cheering crowd of 75,000.

In 1930, the four hired a press manager to help with the business and publicity aspects of the flight.  Will Rogers, the famous actor, writer, and aviation enthusiast, brought national attention when he flew in the supply plane during the attempt. He also hosted a banquet for the brothers in Chicago after the flight had ended.

Although their endurance flight record did not stand the test of time – it was broken in July 1935 by the Key Brothers of Meridian, Mississippi – the airport stands today as a monument to the important early aviation careers of the four brothers from Sparta.

The brothers’ passion for aviation led them to campaign for a permanent airfield to be built in Sparta. Without a dedicated landing field, they had been landing planes in empty pastures and fields. In May 1931, Hunter Field was officially opened north of Sparta. It remains the primary airfield in Randolph County today.

Walter Hunter continued flying, embarking on a long career as a pilot for American Airlines, becoming the airline’s senior jet captain before his retirement in 1966

https://randolphsociety.org/the-hunter-brothers/
https://daysgoneby.me/have-you-ever-heard-of-the-famous-aviators-the-hunter-brothers-from-illinois/

1938 endurance run truck, still out to prove the durability of the Ford

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/old-gas-stations.75124/page-82#post-2297778

The University of Kentucky photography collection has a cool variety of 1930s photos

the above and below, are both examples of a grocery delivery truck, getting the Woolcott convertible top installed

Crazy to find a pair of photos of this top, that I've never heard of, in the covered and uncovered states!

Below is the Woolcott convertible top company truck!  Love this hobby!

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=320&per_page=20
https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=520&per_page=20

1911 San Francisco to New York run, this Swiss Saurer double chain-drive truck, the “Pioneer Freighter” stops in Albion Michigan, it ran on BF Goodrich hard rubber tires while carrying a three-ton load across country in a two-stage trip.

This run by the truck started early in March of 1911 and traveled west from Denver to Los Angeles, and then North to San Francisco. From there it was shipped by rail to Pueblo, CO and on June 12, 1911, it then headed east to New York and arrived there a month and a half later on August 2nd.

 The truck was built in the US at the Saurer Motor Truck Company factory in Plainfield, NJ that merged with the Mack Brothers Car Company later in 1911.

Today’s enlargeable photo shows a stop on the eastbound Saurer truck trip to New York in Albion, MI at the Albion Garage for a promotional photo. The Service Station sold Goodrich tires and sold the Flanders car, one of which is parked to the left of the truck. The second car is a tourist’s Model “T” Ford touring car.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fordmodelt/permalink/10161203866800548/

cross country Rajo head

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1631122770367666/

Bicycling across the desert, the GAES Titan Desert by Garmin in Morocco

https://solobici.es/fotos-titan-desert-2018-paisajes/

Columbia record run - Chicago to New York, 1904. 58 hrs & 45 minutes.

https://tmblr.co/Zqou6t1xQ1y1D

somewhere in that hole are his engine and back tire

https://plus.google.com/+Silodrome/posts/PhFQ68GSDA3

Drivers would do about anything to set a world record, and prove the car's claims of superiority

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-40#post-2957404

in the Kamaz truck, on the Dakar Rally

determined to cross with the bike, no matter the difficulty

http://v2guzzi.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-06-29T16:39:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=17&by-date=false

Wolfgang Schmidt of Germany’s W&W Cycles, in 2008, led an epic motorcycle expedition along the Mackenzie Ice Road in Canada’s Northwest Territories during the dead of winter, to prove a point, and the reliability of aftermarket parts

To understand why someone would want to ride their motorcycle under such harsh and extreme conditions, you have to go back to a 1990’s Harley-Davidson advertising campaign that implored riders to use original spare parts if they wanted a reliable ride.

Choosing to view that assertion as a challenge, the folks at W and W Cycles decided to prove that it’s actually the other way around… that aftermarket parts were just as good, if not better, when it came to reliability. And to test this theory out, Wolfgang and his team rebuilt two bikes — a 1948 Panhead and a 2006 W and W Custom Shovelhead — and took them for the long cold ride.

Wolfgang used Performance Machines wheels and brakes on the journey through the Canadian Arctic.

http://www.custommotorcyclepartsblog.com/ice-road-bikers-use-pm-parts/pm_ice_gasstation/
https://www.facebook.com/bigislandchopper/posts/1809253739101632