Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Ormond-daytona Beach

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  Sep 21 2021

  Greg O.‘s Garage: From the Helck Family Collection: Barney Oldfield on Ormond Beach in his own words

  Peter Helck and Barney Oldfield began a friendship shortly before Barney's passing

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  Dec 30 2019

  Mystery Foto #52 Solved: Willie K. at the Ormond Hotel during the 1904 Ormond-Daytona Beach Races

  In the final Mystery Foto of the decade, did you find Willie K.?

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  Sep 05 2016

  Mystery Foto #36 Solved: Louis Chevrolet at the 1906 Ormond-Daytona Races

  Paul Osika, a great collector and seller of racing and automobile photos, challenged you to identify this veteran of Vanderbilt Cup Races.

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  Feb 11 2014

  Sports Car Illustrated “110 years ago William K. Vanderbilt Jr. sets new speed record”

  Last month, Sports Car Illustrated celebrated the 100th anniversary of Willie K. breaking the one-mile land speed record.

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  Feb 06 2012

  The Dawn of Speed: The Ormond-Daytona Automoble Races

  Beverly Rae Himes explored "The Dawn of Speed" in the November 1987 isue of American Heritage. Here is a repost of the article with an images from my collection.

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  Aug 23 2011

  Willie K’s Cars: #5 The 90-HP Mercedes that Broke the One-Mile Land Speed Record in 1904

  William K. Vanderbilt Jr. was among the first generation of people who grew up with the automobile. With his family’s fortune predicated on transportation perhaps it was inevitable that he was drawn to the latest innovation in machinery to transport goods and people from one place to another. Regardless, his…

• Apr 04 2011

  Article “The Mercedes of Willie K” by Jean-Yves Lassaux

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com contributer Jean-Yves Lassaux has written this article Willie K and the Mercedes for the French website etoilespassion.com . Use the Google translator for the English version.

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  Apr 08 2010

  Film “Willie K. Driving in the 1905 Ormond-Daytona Beach Automobile Races”

  This 30-second film is the only known record of William K, Vanderbilt Jr. driving in an automobile race.