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Title: Solved: Wendax 907 - Waldemar Grant Hansen's 1902 racecar
Post by: Wendax on May 20, 2013, 04:04:36 AM
Cool radiator.

For one point, please respond the car and the year it was built.
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Post by: Wendax on May 27, 2013, 02:30:52 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on June 03, 2013, 03:39:09 AM
up again
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Post by: thorax on June 03, 2013, 09:26:23 AM
from Usa?
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Post by: Wendax on June 03, 2013, 03:34:33 PM
Yes
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 09, 2013, 04:31:35 AM
one-off?
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Post by: Wendax on June 09, 2013, 08:07:04 AM
I think so.
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 09, 2013, 01:31:44 PM
was the radiator this big on purpose?
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Post by: Wendax on June 09, 2013, 01:55:49 PM
Probably for cooling the engine... ;D
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Post by: thorax on June 14, 2013, 02:05:30 PM
a race car?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2013, 03:50:35 PM
Yes
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Post by: thorax on June 15, 2013, 06:04:19 PM
1900 - 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on June 16, 2013, 03:02:10 AM
Yes
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 17, 2013, 05:02:01 AM
Is there something unusual in this car which my assist our research?
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Post by: Wendax on June 17, 2013, 06:28:44 AM
I hardly know anything about this car despite the year and its builder's name.
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Post by: thorax on June 18, 2013, 05:15:52 PM
is the driver the builder too?
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Post by: Wendax on June 19, 2013, 02:13:43 AM
Yes
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Post by: nicanary on June 19, 2013, 10:20:38 AM
is the driver the builder too?

He had some sort of paranoia about how much cooling he'd need ! The engine looks pretty small in proportion to the size of the cooling supply - is it a boxer configuration ?
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Post by: Wendax on June 19, 2013, 10:24:25 AM
Sorry, I don't have any information about the engine.
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 24, 2013, 04:23:56 AM
Do you know the race where the car was photographed?
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Post by: faksta on June 24, 2013, 06:58:19 AM
Do you know the race where the car was photographed?

To save you some time, I don't think it is any of the Vanderbilt Cup editions - I looked through every participant I could find and none of them looked similar.
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Post by: Wendax on July 06, 2013, 03:55:57 PM
Do you know the race where the car was photographed?
I don't know which race, but I do know a race track where this car was raced.
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Post by: pnegyesi on July 07, 2013, 02:56:36 AM
At Meadows Race Track?
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Post by: Wendax on July 07, 2013, 03:22:23 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on July 08, 2013, 04:26:53 AM
were there automobile races hosted on this track after the 1st WW?
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Post by: Wendax on July 08, 2013, 04:36:38 AM
No, the racetrack was demolished in 1910.
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Post by: pnegyesi on July 08, 2013, 04:46:42 AM
was this a track in Chicago?
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Post by: Wendax on July 08, 2013, 05:00:57 AM
No, you have to go much more to the west.
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Post by: pnegyesi on July 08, 2013, 05:05:44 AM
California?
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Post by: Wendax on July 08, 2013, 05:21:44 AM
Yes
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Post by: pnegyesi on July 08, 2013, 05:45:18 AM
The track is the Agricultural Park, I am still looking for the car
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Post by: Wendax on July 08, 2013, 05:46:42 AM
The track is the Agricultural Park
Yes
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 08, 2013, 05:50:44 AM
1902: Waldemar Grant Hansen at the wheel of his own creation. Hansen raced this vehicle at Agricultural Park.

A machinist by trade, Hansen developed metal machining techniques and provided engine parts for the Tourist Automobile Company, a Los Angeles automaker at the time. He regularly tested his machines on the apricot orchard roads in and around Pasadena and Altadena, eventually leading to the Pasadena/Altadena Hill Climb events of 1906-1909.
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Post by: Wendax on July 08, 2013, 06:30:47 AM
Correct, that's all I have, too. One point for you.