1961 Connecticut Dragway Poster Print

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This retro poster print is one of four prints of Gilmore Oil .Gilmore Oil –What began as a farmers market and grew to be a successful dairy farm, resulted in Arthur Fremont Gilmore striking oil at the turn of the century in Los Angeles, California. The Gilmore family took their fortune and became very active in the community, constructing Gilmore Stadium in 1934 with the very first race track specifically designed for midget racers.

This reproduction poster print from 1937 measures 15.5 inches wide x 21.5 inches tall. Makes for a great gift.

1937 Gilmore Red Lion Oil Co. Advertisement Poster Print

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1952 Yakima Speedway Poster Print

This poster comes from the great NorthWest of the United States of America . Yakima Washington, 1952 Yakima Speedway Poster Print. This reproduction print measures 17 inches wide x 22 inches tall. Two posters from this track, a ’52 and a ’53 print.

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1915 Chicago Speedway Park Poster Print

Today in History……June 19, 1915 Chicago Speedway Park . Indy/Championship car racing first appeared in the Chicago area in 1914-1915 at Galesburg District Fairgrounds. Both races were 100 laps around the 1-mile dirt oval. AAA held races at Speedway Park, a 2-mile board track in nearby Maywood, Illinois. The first such race was a 500-mile event in 1915. Subsequent races ranged from 10-300 miles, and the final race was held in 1918. The track was eventually demolished, and the Edward Hines Veterans Hospital now stands on its former location.

Past winners of other Open Wheel Chicago events AAA Championship car

* 1914 Ralph Mulford (Galesburg)
* 1915 Eddie O’Donnell (Galesburg)
* 1915 Dario Resta (Speedway Park)
* 1915 Dario Resta (Speedway Park)
* 1916 Dario Resta (Speedway Park)
* 1916 Dario Resta (Speedway Park)
* 1917 Earl Cooper (Speedway Park)
* 1917 Ralph DePalma (Speedway Park)
* 1917 Louis Chevrolet (Speedway Park)
* 1917 Tom Alley (Speedway Park)
* 1917 Ralph Mulford (Speedway Park)
* 1917 Pete Henderson (Speedway Park)
* 1918 Louis Chevrolet (Speedway Park)
* 1918 Ralph DePalma (Speedway Park)
* 1918 Ralph DePalma (Speedway Park)
* 1918 Ralph DePalma (Speedway Park)

Chicago’s First International 500 Mile Auto Race. This reproduction 1915 Chicago Speedway Park Poster Print will look great in any shop, garage, office or workshop wall as some great vintage retro artwork.

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1926 Tropical Island Speedway Poster Print

In 1925, Carl Fisher (who built the Indianapolis Speedway in 1909) was developing Miami Beach and envisioned this area as the winter auto racing capital of the world.  He built the world’s fastest 1-1/4 mile “boardtrack” (a wooden, oval race track). The outstanding features of the track were the 50 degree banked turns. Turns banked this steep required a speed of at least 110 miles per hour to keep the race car from sliding down into the infield.  The turns at today’s Daytona International Speedway are banked at only 32 degrees. In 1926, the Fulford-Miami Speedway held its first and only racing event attracting a crowd of 20,000 spectators, some of whom paid up to $15 for a box seat.  It was located at the northern end of Flagler Boulevard (NE 19th Avenue) in today’s Sky Lake neighborhood before being demolished in the hurricane of 1926.?

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Ralph Hepburn 1926 Tropical Island Speedway Miami Florida

Fulford-Miami Speedway. Ralph Hepburn has just won the pole for the February 22, 1926 300-mile race with a lap of 141.90mph. The car is a Miller Straight Eight. Barney Oldfield is on the left. Built by Carl Fisher (of Indianapolis Speedway fame), the 1-1/4 mile (with 50 degree banking!) Fulford-Miami Speedway  held only one race—the track was destroyed by a hurricane in September of 1926. Al Powell Collection.

View of Fulford-Miami Speedway from the crowd

This 1-1/4 mile board track was designed by Ray Harround and built for developer Carl Fisher in 1925. The AAA sanctioned race with a $30,000 purse was run before 20,000 people.  It was the world’s fastest wooden track due to the 50 degree banked turns.