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It's not a 3-wheeler.
That was kind of obvious ;D
I know, but I was trying to anticipate Mr Funny Guy's next reply! ;D
3 3/4 wheeler, perhaps, but that's no 4-wheeler.
Do you prefer this?
I was just kiddin' :)
I forgot the smile... ;)
This is not that hard and it is just what it seems....
Isotta Fraschini?
Not Isotta Fraschini...
Looking at the pic, one should be able to identify the nationality of the car (very easy), then...
Looks like American to me, maybe one from the Vanderbilt Cup races
It is american.
Not a Vanderbilt Cup racing car...
this car is connected with another , VERY famous race, even if it never raced it....
Was it built in Indianapolis?
Not for indianapolis but its driver was a well known indy-driver.
Quote from: Paul Jaray on February 19, 2010, 11:40:46 AM
this car is connected with another , VERY famous race, even if it never raced it....
Gordon Bennett Cup?
The race I was referring to was Indianapolis, but this race is connected to this car via a pilot, well known in the Indy scene.
This car nevere raced Indy.
A famous indy-pilot raced this car...till...
It´s a 1911 E-M-F 30 stock-chassis roadster built to compete in the Tiedman Cup race held in November, 1911 in Savannah, Ga., as a preliminary event for the Vanderbilt Cup competition? Jack Tower drove it to a third-place finish that day...
with such a guess it's a pity I can't tell you are right...
This car is from 1911, but not a EMF and not for the Tiedman Cup.
Amazingly this car was raced by a famous pilot who drove it to a third-place in a competition, but it was not Jack Tower.
Probably the pilot may lead you to the solution...
:D No problem!
"Amazingly this car was raced by a famous pilot who drove it to a third-place in a competition, but it was not Jack Tower."
That´s great!!
American car, famous pilot raced his very last race in it, from 1911...is it that hard?
Ray Harroun at Fort Wayne?
Not him, not that...
Fast Eddie? ;)
Lee Oldfield in a Knox Racer?
Not him and not a Knox...
Looks a lot like the Louis Chevrolet-designed "Marquette" Buick.
Not that...
Jack Fleming, Pope-Hartford?
Panama-Pacific Road Race at Portola circuit - February 22, 1911?
All these indy pilots died in 1911 on a racing car?
Not him, not that...
I didn't say that Chevrolet was the driver. He had major imput anyway in the construction of the Model 10 "Marquette" Buick.
It was Lewis Strang who started on the pole of the first Indy 500 in a Case automobile. He was killed on July 20, 1911 testing the Buick in Blue River, Wisconsin.
Hence my deduction which, apparently was wrong.
Got it, but my reply was after faksta's one...
This brand is not very known and lasted few years with few models.
There is a website dedicated to these cars.
It's not an impossible one. ;)
Colby Red Devil, cca 1913
Caption says:
Man at wheel of the Colby Motor Company 1912 model "Red Devil" racer. Location unknown (Colby Motor Co. based in Mason City, Iowa). ca. 1913
Mason City entrepreneur, William Colby, founded the Colby Motor Company in 1910. The first Colby, a five-passenger touring car, took to Mason City's streets on November 12, 1910. It performed to all expectations and was fast enough to earn a speeding ticket for its test driver.
Colby equipped his cars with premium materials and an engine designed to withstand Iowa's winters. Colby automobiles were put through endurance tests over the state's rutted, muddy dirt roads. The cars passed the tests with flying colors, including a 658-mile run from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Helena, Montana.
Colby also participated in the newly developing dirt-track car races being held throughout the Midwest. Billy Pearce, a Colby driver on the racing circuit, broke many track records and won trophies for the company. He died in 1911 while racing the Colby Red Devil in Sioux City. The car was repaired but never raced again.
Quote from: Paul Jaray on March 31, 2010, 03:50:25 PM
All these indy pilots died in 1911 on a racing car?
Not him, not that...
I got it that the driver did not necessarily die, but just spent his last race in 1911. :doh:
Never would have found it! :o
You found it, and you can read yourself, that source reports a data 1913, then another 1912 and another, 1911.
The correct one is, according to another book, 1911, since the Red Devil was developed on a Model 30, and, of course because Billy Pearce died in the Kane County Cup in 1911.
Well done!
Good job indeed. I would have never found that one.