1903 The Birth of a Racing Legend, the First Race Car

Premier built this special race car to compete in the 1905 American Elimination Trial and Vanderbilt Cup Race. The four-cylinder car had a huge ... The track hosted its first dirt-track automobile race on Sept. 11, 1903, making The Milwaukee. Mile the oldest operating motor speedway in the world. In 1954, ... Henry Ford's first company built a car in 1901. The Ford Motor Company started in 1903 and produced the Model A. In 1903, Alexander Winton built his Winton Bullet race car (above: bottom right) to stimulate sales of his passenger cars. Very successful in its day, it was ... Benz "Parsifal" 60 hp racing car, 1903. ... After its first, less successful outing in the Paris-Madrid city race, which ... It was Goodyear provided special tires for the racecar that Henry Ford produced and drove himself in 1901. ... Holley Performance Products began ... 1903 Mercedes 90HP Rennwagen ... The 90 HP Rennwagen built for the Gordon Bennet race was destroyed in a factory fire at Cannstatt in 1903. After that, the ... 1902 Ford 999 Race Car ... On June 19, 1903, just weeks before the introduction of the first Ford production car, Barney Oldfield drove the Ford 999 to a record ... This first Ford car, the Quadricycle, was completed in June 1896. Image of Henry Ford on a quadricycle. On August 19, 1899, he resigned from ... He paid $850 for the car, which he and his family kept for over a half-century. McNary may never have known it, but his $170 deposit on the car— ...