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Racers and officials head north single file on Broadway from the NY Times Building starting line. By Jeff Mahl: It was 11:20 the cold crisp morning of February 12, 1908; just minutes after the President of the AAA New York City Chapter fired the gold pistol above the Times Square crowd. For the Race Teams,…
The Start of Something BIG! By: Jeff Mahl In early 1908 preparations were frantically being made in Europe with teams from Italy, France and Germany building automobiles that would carry them around the world. The effort…
A Thomas advertisement in the September, 1906, Motor Magazine touting the Thomas performance during the 1906 Glidden Tour. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF – THE GLIDDEN TOURS! By: Jeff Mahl Man had been racing horses for centuries, trying to prove which had the fastest and most capable stead. So it was inevitable when the “horseless-carriage” made…
1896 The Globe Cycle Shop Buffalo, N.Y., with 23 year old “Wheel Truer” George Schuster first on the top row left. By Jeff Mahl: As the Industrial Revolution peaked in the US during the late 1800’s, long distance transportation had made great strides. Steam powered ships and locomotives were breaking speed records, and offered a…
Times Square Start: With a crowd of 250,000 the New York to Paris Racers line up in Times Square for the start of this epic event By Jeff Mahl: At a time when the automobile was considered “after a woman, the most fragile and capricious thing on earth”*, the thought of racing these new fangled…
December 1st is here and it is snowing this morning in Vermont. So this is a perfect time to start showing you some winter scenes with cars and we decided to start with one of the best. In 1908, an American-built 1907 Thomas Flyer won the New York to Paris automobile race. The race took…
As many of our readers know the 1907 Thomas Flyer shown here, won the grueling 22,000 mile, New York to Paris Race in 1908. The race has been covered many times over the years by the media and it is not our intent to rehash it here. What prompted this post was the discovery (thanks…
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