The 1904 Napier Samson L48 shattered the 100 miles per hour record 117 years ago at Ormand Beach

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/the-first-car-to-exceed-100-mph-in-america-rumbles-once-again-to-bonhams-cars-amelia-island-auction-block

I think this is the 1st time I've seen the buck toothed kid on Oilzum products, it was in use from about 1906 to 1911

 

https://www.proxibid.com/Oilzum-Cleanzum-w-Bucktooth-Kid-Logo-Salesman-Sample-Metal-Can/lotInformation/74619974
https://www.proxibid.com/Oilzum-Paper-Items-w-Bucktooth-Kid-Logos/lotInformation/74620166

here's that sign on display at the 1909 Boston Auto Fair 

https://bid.richmondauctions.com/lots/view/4-3A7Y3F/rare-the-oil-that-oilzum-w-bucktooth-boy-lady-single-sided-tin-sign-tac-85

http://www.virtualsteamcarmuseum.org/makers/white_and_bagley_oilzum.html

F.W.White and H.P.Bagley established their small company in 1888.

At White and Bagleys Worcester offices, the founders of the company and their little staff tackled the basic lubrication problem: to develop a practical motor oil of uniform quality with a long service life and good protective properties. 

A series of basic motor oil formulae were developed by White and Bagley during the years when the automobile was changing from a scientific curiosity to a reliable road machine.

More often than not, the oil bought at blacksmith shops and corner stores was inferior, unbranded, of uncertain quality. So to overcome this, in 1905, White and Bagley created one of the very first brand name motor oils, Oilzum. 

The familiar Oilzum kid trademark became a fast friend of the early motorist.

The company changed to Oswald the Chauffer logo after about 5 years

https://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=80420&page=4

colorized movie footage of Campbell setting a land speed record of 276 mph in his Blue Bird at Daytona Beach back in 1935, should be appreciated, it's SHARP!

see the video at https://twitter.com/aut0mob/status/1591092866008625152

Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach in 1909

Bates originally challenged Curtiss and the Wright Brothers to an airplane race in Florida.

 When that failed, he settled for an automobile race. The automobile won.

it has a 12hp motor, and Bates was building airplanes in Chicago until about 1912 when he sold out to the Edward Heath company and that he went into business again on his own during World War I.

here he was in 1906

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM11765

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM11763

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM11766

1915 Board track racer at the Sons of Speed races this Saturday

Buzz Kanter (publisher of American Iron Magazine) will be racing this amazing 1915 Harley boardtrack racer, at the New Smyrna Speedway in Daytona.

No clutch and no gearbox, so starting them takes a tug on the rear wheel on a stand, or by dropping in from the top of the banked track.



Braking is achieved by a combination of throttling down or ignition kill

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008438972289
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154690768543371&set=gm.1035352879931999&type=3

the trophy for achieving the 1904 land speed record at Ormand Beach Florida

Made by the Gorham trophy company, who also made the Borg Warner trophy (Indy 500)

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/the_trophy_that_may_have_inspired_the_vanderbilt_cup

trophy cups and awards, including Times Union Trophy and the Minneapolis Cup, displayed on table during the 1906 Ormond-Daytona races in Florida.

Found on http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A181040

lots of info at http://www.firstsuperspeedway.com/articles/ormond-beach-1906

once famous racers of the measured mile

Found on https://www.facebook.com/rolande.anglade?fref=nf

A terrific glamour postcard of the Stanley Steamer setting the Land Speed Record for steam powered cars, that stood for a hundred years

Found on https://www.facebook.com/david.greenlees.3

Above from http://deadlycurves.blogspot.com/2013/06/steam-power-how-stanley-steamer.html  where you can get a full accounting of the car, the Stanley brothers, and the outcome of the destruction! Thanks Portago!


I know I've mentioned it before, and posted about the recent attempts to reset the record, but I can't find that with a simple search... maybe some other time

a variety of interesting things found while browsing through the library online photos

George B. Selden in his first automobile, patented 1895... but marked 1877 because that was the year he made it. 

a photo of the first automobile

 1886 Benz

 1903 Olds Pirate, a one cylinder special race car that held a record for the one mile speed record

 1904 curved dash Olds

 1907 sports racer

 1906 Stanley

 Suposed to be the first limo in America

 J. M. Quinby & Company; Builders of aluminum automobile bodies 1909

Mercer

I noticed the odd sign above the storefront "Automobile Jobbers"

 1944 east 138th street ... and that truck bed in the bottom of the photo looks handmade, and put into the rumble seat area... was the neat trick to shift a car classification during fuel rationing during WW2 from car to commercial truck and then it could get more gas more often if I recall correctly.. and this is a 1944 photo

Electric car about 1905, on the charger in the garage

 the caption on the side says "Brooklyn Auto Graveyard"

 Stuck in a mud hole (DEEP one) in Texas 1919

The Czar leaving the racecourse at Krasnoe Selo, in his 40 horse-power Delaunay Belleville in 1909

Above racing at Indy

Above and below, racing at Ormand Beach

Barney Oldfield in the advertising

the trophys from the 1908 Prince Henry tour

1922 advertisement

the caption to the above drawing seems to be "When Greek meets Greek" and I don't understand it

this advertisement was captioned "his Herreshoff car"

 The Pullman car Palmyra

 Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan. December 23, 1935

found while searching around at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital