Mystery Friday Foto #20 Solved: The Mystery Racer of Bert Dingley
Did you identify Bert Dingley?
Identify;
- The driver and mechanician
Bert Dingley and mechanician Tony Nichols
- The race car
#3 Pope-Toledo (USA)
- The race and date
The 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race- Saturday October 14, 1905
- The outcome for this car and driver
Finished 12th. Broke cylinder, made repairs and was running in Lap 6 when race was stopped.
Congrats to Steve Lucas, Art Kleiner, and Kenneth Parrote.
Greg O.
Comments
That’s Bert Dingley in a Pope-Toledo with Tony Nichols as the mechanician at the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 14, 1905. They finished 12th. in this race after having won the American Elimination Trials the previous September 23rd.
Driver Bert Dingley, Mechanician Tony Nichols
60 HP Pope-Toledo
Vanderbilt Cup Race, October 14, 1905
Finished 12th, was in lap 6 when the race was stopped
Driver, Bert Dingley, Mechanician, Tony Nichols. A. L. Pope’s Pope Toledo. October 14, 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race. 12th place finish, out on 5th lap with a cracked cylinder. Dingley won the illimitation race. Drivers drew for starting order prior to the race. Dingley’s Pope Toledo drew 3rd which gave him car number 3.