This is Episode 2 of “WHERE THEY RACED: Speed Demons in the City of Angeles”
In this episode you will learn all about and see footage of “The Holy Grail” one of the best surviving pre WWI Peugeot racing cars and a bit about Harry Miller and his role in caring for some of them. If you missed the first one you can see Where They Raced – Episode I : The Early Years here.
Los Angeles is famous for its orange groves, bathing beauties, sunshine and Hollywood blockbusters. Long forgotten is that it was also home to more auto racing and innovation than anywhere else in the world.
With hundreds of vintage photos, lost archival footage and revealing interviews, WHERE THEY RACED is the documentary series that reunites the ghost tracks of Los Angeles with the cars that ran them and gets the families, historians and experts to tell the tales that give this history a victory lap by preserving these fading memories.
Thank you very much, wonderful.
Glad you enjoyed it Charles, as it is quite a car.
Nice film, thank you for making it available!
Just a couple of corrections to the narration: the man with his hand on the rebuilt Peugeot engine at Millers is not Bob Burman, but Harry Miller’s associate at the time, Frank Adamson. Burman is not in the picture. Also, that Peugeot is not Dario Resta’s 1916 Indy winner, but an identical twin. It was driven by Ralph Mulford, Eddie Rickenbacher, Ralph de Palma and Art Klein in period, and finished 3rd at Indy, so it’s by no means a poor substitute!
I am Harold Osmer, host of Where They Raced.
We make every effort to ensure our guests know of which they speak. In the end, it’s the best we can do. We will not intentionally try to feed any controversy, but there’s no avoiding it sometimes.
Auto racing historians are a passionate lot and quite particular about the details. Fine with us because so are we. Not everyone will agree with what we say or produce, but we are delighted to have such an enlightened audience and genuine, knowledgable feedback. Feel free to contact us through the website and set us straight when you detect something. Better to learn and be right than flap in the breeze. Keep watching!
Harold, You and Harry are doing a WONDERFUL job of presenting this story and a BIG Thanks to both of you for putting it together.
Anything that creeps in that is not correct usually originates from way back in time when the information on these cars was not as well researched as it is today.
Kudos to both of you and all the car owners whose cars are in the series.