Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Ormond-daytona Beach

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  Feb 06 2012

  The Dawn of Speed: The Ormond-Daytona Automoble Races

  Beverly Rae Himes explored "The Dawn of Speed" in the November 1987 isue of American Heritage. Here is a repost of the article with an images from my collection.

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  Aug 23 2011

  Willie K’s Cars: #5 The 90-HP Mercedes that Broke the One-Mile Land Speed Record in 1904

  William K. Vanderbilt Jr. was among the first generation of people who grew up with the automobile. With his family’s fortune predicated on transportation perhaps it was inevitable that he was drawn to the latest innovation in machinery to transport goods and people from one place to another. Regardless, his…

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  Apr 04 2011

  Article “The Mercedes of Willie K” by Jean-Yves Lassaux

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com contributer Jean-Yves Lassaux has written this article Willie K and the Mercedes for the French website etoilespassion.com . Use the Google translator for the English version.

• Apr 08 2010

  Film “Willie K. Driving in the 1905 Ormond-Daytona Beach Automobile Races”

  This 30-second film is the only known record of William K, Vanderbilt Jr. driving in an automobile race.





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