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Updated – Smiling Ralph Mulford was one of the most popular early racing drivers, who excelled on the race track, road course and at hill climbs. In 1916, he set the fastest time ever during practice for the challenging Pikes Peak Hill Climb held on the Auto Road with his Hudson. His time of 18:24.70,…
Every once in a while a great photo comes along, and this image of Smiling Ralph Mulford and his Peugeot is one of them. He was at Galveston Beach, Texas for a race held there in 1914. Both Mulford and Peugeot were at the top of their game at the time. The French racing car featured a…
One would not normally think of the Indianapolis Speedway as being in the used racing car sales business, but the advertisement (above), found in The Motor Age, December 4, 1919 issue, tells the end of a very interesting story. The 1916 Indianapolis Race was held right in the middle of the trying times of the World…
Pikes Peak is a 14,115 foot high mountain located in the Front Range of the Rocky Mount-ains and is 10 miles west of Colorado Springs, Colo. It was first opened up to travelers in 1890 with a cog railway and also a carriage road. By 1916 Spencer Penrose whose resort and hotel was nearby, had along…
The last Brighton Beach 24 hour race we will cover is the final event of the 1909 season. It had been delayed from its original starting date in September because of bad weather. Smiling Ralph Mulford who had planned to get married on the weekend of October 15-16 had to shuffle his plans when the…
Here we see “Smiling” Ralph Mulford in his Frontenac along with his riding mechanic at the 2.5 mile board track in Tacoma, WA. They were there to take part in the July 4th, 1920, 225 mile Tacoma Classic race along with twelve other drivers. The logistics of all of this at the time must have…
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