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[stitcherbob]

As soon as the first wheel was invented, another guy made one to challenge the first guy to a race...

 

[Cliff]

I always think of 2 guys in a horse & buggy (and the wives ain't there), and "let's see who can get to XXX first" and off they go..... 20 years later, they now have horseless carriages and guess what? Heh I have seen footage of the first cars to go 100 MPH, almost 120 years ago. And that man with the steam car that went something like 140 MPH in, what, 1903??? The first car race (in the USA) in late 1890's. to prove the reliability of cars. I think there were 5 cars & 3 made it. OR, Dick Kraft in the Bug, the first dragster. That thing looked a lot like early 1900's racers. Oh, I read a story about a car race in SoCalif, around 1905??? and the race went by an "old soldiers home" (as they called it). There were some Civil War Vets that saw that race. Ya have to think about the technology that was available in the 1860's, and these Vets lived long enough to see automobiles & airplanes. Wow....

 

[stitcherbob]

I’m out here not far from where they ran the Vanderbilt Cup races in Long Island and love that old tech. We had the engine for the 1911 Indy winning Marmon Wasp in the resto shop being welded up and rebuilt, and to see and hear that thing belching fire from it’s open exhaust ports while it was test run on a stand was almost as good as a nitro motor....

 

[Cliff]

I had a chance to see that Marmon Wasp when I toured the Indy 500 track, about 30 years ago. You walk thru the door of the museum, and there it was. The car that won the first race, 1911. I was astonished to see it & took some photos. Wow, the car that won the first race..... One thing about the Indy track. I felt a sense of history in that place. So much has happened there, The great drivers, the races, the way the cars changed, all of that. I probably will never go there again, but that really was a once in a life time adventure.

 

[Jim]

How 'bout some 454 powered GMC Motorhomes?