Showing posts with label Endurance racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Endurance racing. Show all posts
Saturday, February 25, 2023

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)

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=565686045591551&set=a.546419567518199 It's cool to see hand painted lettering 
Saturday, June 04, 2022

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

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The reliability contest for commercial vehicles covered a route from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. https://digitalcollections.detroitpublic...
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Saturday, November 28, 2020

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

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I posted about it in 2015,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-woolerac-and-tribute-room-at-frank.html but now  https://vintageai...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

this is the most honest headline I've read

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https://www.facebook.com/Historicautomobileenduranceruns/posts/957459771383154
Monday, May 25, 2020

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

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Saturday, March 28, 2020

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

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supposedly he was going to make a run from San Fran to New York for the 1915 Panama – Pacific Exposition world’s fair.  https://ww...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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.

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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 We...
Friday, July 05, 2019

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

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Rally and Endurance racing fan Jeffrey Wacker and his 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente, met up with a 1966 Shelby GT 350H “Starting in K...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

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

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Frequent repairs were made on the plane while it was in flight. “Spark plugs were changed, a magneto overhauled, and even a lost bolt ...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

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

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https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/old-gas-stations.75124/page-82#post-2297778
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

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

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the above and below, are both examples of a grocery delivery truck, getting the Woolcott convertible top installed Cra...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

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.

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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...
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

cross country Rajo head

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1631122770367666/
Monday, May 07, 2018

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

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https://solobici.es/fotos-titan-desert-2018-paisajes/
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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

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https://tmblr.co/Zqou6t1xQ1y1D
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

somewhere in that hole are his engine and back tire

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https://plus.google.com/+Silodrome/posts/PhFQ68GSDA3
Thursday, January 25, 2018

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

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http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-40#post-2957404
Monday, January 22, 2018

in the Kamaz truck, on the Dakar Rally

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Thursday, December 07, 2017

determined to cross with the bike, no matter the difficulty

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http://v2guzzi.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-06-29T16:39:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=17&by-date=false
Saturday, July 01, 2017

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

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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 H...