1908 New York to Paris great race entry, the Protos finally shows up online to show me wth that car was

Found on http://www.autopuzzles.com/

Original photos of this Protos at the start of the race: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-to-paris-race-of-1908-great.html

the other entries were the Züst representing Italy, three cars (De Dion-Bouton, Motobloc, and Sizaire-Naudin) representing France, and Thomas Flyer competing for the United States

If the rally race cars of the Paris to Peking, and the New York to Paris races interest you too, here are the Spyker http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/1907-spyker-charles-godard-and-jean-du.html

Zust http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/zust-from-1908-new-york-to-paris-race.html

and the Italia http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/winner-of-1907-paris-to-peking.html

Update Aug 16th: I just found the OldMotor.com has posted a photo taken during the race while they came through Ogden Utah: http://theoldmotor.com/?p=9927

read about the passenger, he was hired by each of the great race entrants to guide them from Ogden Utah to Nevada, as he had been a surveyor for the railway

http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A169455

Dan at Hemmingsblog finds a lot of cool stuff, but here is an unknown car - advertising trackless train

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/08/08/all-aboard/ where they are hoping someone knows the year make and model, even better if they know when and where this was driving around and maybe have another photo

Cool photos found on Switchum.tumblr

 What'cha call a monkey wrench, see?

 for a lot of motorcycle photos with humor, and lots of cat photos, enjoy http://switchum.tumblr.com/

Just enjoy the ride... a sweet short film carefully made with no other traffic. Awesome

"Solus" from Ricki Bedenbaugh.

Skip the first 30 seconds and get right to it.

the funeral carriages of Adm Horatio and Field Marshall Arthur

found among the cariiages and coaches at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?num=140&word=Railroads&s=3&notword=&d=&c=&f=2&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&imgs=20&pNum=

2 samples of cigarette cards of the predesessor to the stage coach, and the passenger train

See a whole gallery of similar cig cards of early 1800's trains at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?num=140&word=Railroads&s=3&notword=&d=&c=&f=2&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&imgs=20&pNum=

pompous ridiculous waste of money carriages and coaches of kings, queens, emperors, empresses, etc. who should have been deposed for wasting fortunes of tax money from their countries

just a small sample from those found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=Carriages%20%26%20coaches&s=3&notword=&f=2

the dreams and drawings of the early balloonists (pilots were called professors)

 pretty good idea for early balloonists... an escape parachute for the basket and passengers. Early on there was no idea what to do once you got it off the gorund, just go for the ride and hope you had a soft landing

all found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?trg=1&word=Balloons%20%2D%2D%20Pictorial%20works&s=3&notword=&d=&c=&f=2&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=100&imgs=20&pNum=

White steam cars

found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

1933 Auburns, cabriolet, Sedan, speedster, and boattail

 Above, supercharged, below isn't

found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

the big elegant early 30's Chryslers

This last one doesn't seem to have the same wire rims... but I doubt that is has wood spokes

found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

Steampunk... interesting things that are basically victorian era ingenuity, made of copper, brass, and powered by steam... or look like they are. Regardless of definition, cool stuff from the 1850's -1910's

Dirigibles (hard frame blimps) seem to get a special pass for their design or uniqueness

found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/