Here are 30 amazing vintage photos in early days of American car races.
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| The first U.S. oval track events took place in early September 1896 at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island |
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| The first U.S. oval track events took place in early September 1896 at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island |
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| The Sioux City Speedway race, July 4, 1914 |
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| The start of the Elgin National Road races, Aug. 23, 1919 |
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| Twin City Motor Speedway, 1916 |
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| Twin City Motor Speedway, 1915 |
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| Vanderbilt race, 1910 |
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| Waiting for start, Ascot Park, 1908 |
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| 1908 Long Island Motor Parkway Sweepstakes |
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| 1914 American Grand Prize |
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| 1914 American Grand Prize |
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| Agricultural Park race, 1903 |
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| Ascot Park, 1917 |
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| Auto races, Abilene, Kansas, ca. 1910s |
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| Auto races, Minneapolis, Kansas, August 1917 |
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| Car racing at the old wooden race track in north Omaha, 1915 |
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| Fairgrounds Speedway, Nashville, Tennessee, 1911 |
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| First auto race at Orange County Fair, Middletown, NY, 1915 |
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| George Hill and his mechanician in car, a Stutz, on the new Tacoma Speedway track, 1915 |
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| Indianapolis Motor Speedway, September 9, 1916 |
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| Metropolitan trophy race, Sheepshead Bay, May 13, 1916 |
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| Vanderbilt Cup races at Motor Parkway Sweepstakes, 1908 |
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| Narragansett Park Speedway in Providence, Rhode Island on a sunny fall afternoon, 1915 |
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| Racing at the Readville racetrack in Boston, Massachusetts, 1909 |
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| Racing came to Arizona early as evidenced in this cartoon from the November 2, 1908 edition of the Los Angeles Times |
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| Sioux City Iowa racetrack, 1914 |
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| Sioux City Mini Indy, July 4, 1914 |
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| Golden Potlatch race, Tacoma, July 5, 1915 |
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| Earl Cooper approaches the checkered flag in his Stutz racing car at the Tacoma Speedway, July 4, 1915 |
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| The first auto race in Rush County, Kansas, 1911 |
