Who do ya think ya are? Barney Oldfield?

Jack Shea, himself an occasional contributor to the Hemmings Blog, has recently been helping Fred Hill of LaGrande, Oregon, digitize his photo collection and identify the cars pictured in it. One of the more interesting photos they’ve run across was this one of Barney Oldfield (note the cigar) piloting Walter Christie’s front-wheel-drive racer. Fred noted […]

From three-wheeled trucks to Model T tanks

We’ve seen several snowmobiles built out of Model Ts around these parts – it’s rather a favorite topic of ours – so we were all over the photo David Greenlees recently posted to the excellent thread full of pre-World War II photos on the H.A.M.B. Rather than extend an endless tread over the rear wheels […]

How Strang met his death

Lewis Strang in a Thomas at the French Grand Prix, 1908
Many men participated in the dawn of organized motor racing in the US, and many lived hard and died young. Lewis P. Strang stands shoulder to shoulder with Louis Disbrow, Barney Oldham, Ralph De Palma, David Bruce-Brown, Louis Chevrolet and other titans of the era, […]