Mystery Friday Foto #10 Solved: William Luttgen in the #7 Mercedes
Did you identify William Luttgen in the #7 Mercedes?
Identify;
- The Race Car make and horsepower
The #7 120hp Mercedes
- Driver and Mechanician
William Luttgen with Marx as mechanician.
- Race and date
1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race October 6, 1906
- Outcome for this racer
Finished 11th with an average speed of 48.2mph
Congrats to Steve Lucas for identifying William Luttgen and Kudos to William Luttgen's Grandson Robert Luttgen for all the additional information and photographs.
Greg O.
From Robert Luttgen
Comments
Here are some hints.
My mistake, Granddad drove the Number 7 in the 1906 race, not in the 1908 race (Number 5). I will let others guess the rest.
That’s the 120 HP Mercedes Rennwagen racer being driven by William Luttgen with Marx as his mechanician. It raced in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 6, 1906 and finished in 11th. place.
Amazing photo clarity from the earliest years of the 20th century. Kudos to the photographer!