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Updated: The “Horseless Carriages” feature this week includes three photos and an advertisement all found in “Motor Age” magazines published in the first half of 1912. The lead photo from the publications January 16, 1912 issue shows a new take on the use of running board seats on automobiles at the time. One of two…
A few days ago we showed scenes of the Tom Alley wreck and the 1912 Indianapolis 500. Today we have the Peter Helck artwork, “1912 Gallant Defeat” showing the scene as Ralph DePalma and his riding mechanic Rupert Jeffkins, push the wounded Mercedes down the front stretch after a connecting rod broke on the last lap of the…
We do not normally show car or racing crashes but in this case are going to make an exception as fortunately no one was hurt. We were able to obtain a postcard that racing driver Tom Alley sent to his cousin after the race. He told her how he faired when the “wheels caved in” on the…
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