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E. J. Roberts Garage was in Danville, Indiana, which is situated about 25-miles west of the City of Indianapolis. Like many other garages did in the period, the shop tow truck was a converted automobile. In this case, Roberts cut off the rear section of a 1910s or ’20s Cole V-8 powered touring car and…
Number Seventy-three of the “Kodachrome Image Series” begins this week with an early-1950s image taken from a postcard that shows both forties and fifties cars in the parking lot of Victory Field. The stadium is the Indianapolis, Indiana, home of the Indians, a Minor League baseball team. Next is a Nash with a salmon or pink-colored roof…
Looking like it is straight out of a Jules Verne novel this Kelly-Springfield limousine-bus with coachwork by Irvin Robbins & Company must have certainly stopped people in their tracks the first time they laid eyes on it. The truck company was located in Springfield, Ohio, and the coachbuilder in Indianapolis, Indiana. The chassis is a K-30 one-ton…
For this Sunday’s entertainment feature we have a video showing the testing of the 1936 Plymouth, along with daredevil driving by both Lucky Teter and Jimmie Lynch. Although they were not engaged in the type of scientific testing that went on at the car company, it dramatically demonstrated the rugged construction of the new Model to…
The month of May is upon us, leading to thoughts of that upcoming classic race, the Indianapolis 500 held on Memorial Day weekend. The Duesenberg brothers and their automobiles left a big mark on the event in the 1920’s by winning the race in 1924, 1925, and 1927. The team also had other good finishing…
During testing of the Model A Duesenberg in 1921, a run of eighteen thousand miles was made, but in 1923 the Brothers decided two see how long it would take to cover 3000 miles, running on the 2.5 mile track at Indianapolis. The car above was prepared for the run and equipped to be refueled…
Two Peter Helck Collection photos of National racing cars, at the Speedway in Indianapolis. He captioned the photo above as 1909, with Merz on the left and Atkin on the right in the car with the lowered drivetrain, as was the one we have seen Oldfield driving in the past. The photo below seems to…
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