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30 Amazing Vintage Photos of American Car Races from the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries_Ha
Here are 30 amazing vintage photos in early days of American car races.
The first U.S. oval track events took place in early September 1896 at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island
The first U.S. oval track events took place in early September 1896 at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island
The Sioux City Speedway race, July 4, 1914
The start of the Elgin National Road races, Aug. 23, 1919
Twin City Motor Speedway, 1916
Twin City Motor Speedway, 1915
Vanderbilt race, 1910
Waiting for start, Ascot Park, 1908
1908 Long Island Motor Parkway Sweepstakes
1914 American Grand Prize
1914 American Grand Prize
Agricultural Park race, 1903
Ascot Park, 1917
Auto races, Abilene, Kansas, ca. 1910s
Auto races, Minneapolis, Kansas, August 1917
Car racing at the old wooden race track in north Omaha, 1915
Fairgrounds Speedway, Nashville, Tennessee, 1911
First auto race at Orange County Fair, Middletown, NY, 1915
George Hill and his mechanician in car, a Stutz, on the new Tacoma Speedway track, 1915
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, September 9, 1916
Metropolitan trophy race, Sheepshead Bay, May 13, 1916
Vanderbilt Cup races at Motor Parkway Sweepstakes, 1908
Narragansett Park Speedway in Providence, Rhode Island on a sunny fall afternoon, 1915
Racing at the Readville racetrack in Boston, Massachusetts, 1909
Racing came to Arizona early as evidenced in this cartoon from the November 2, 1908 edition of the Los Angeles Times
Sioux City Iowa racetrack, 1914
Sioux City Mini Indy, July 4, 1914
Golden Potlatch race, Tacoma, July 5, 1915
Earl Cooper approaches the checkered flag in his Stutz racing car at the Tacoma Speedway, July 4, 1915
The first auto race in Rush County, Kansas, 1911
(Photos from clamshack)