1956 Portland Speedway Poster Print
1956 Portland Speedway Poster Print. This reproduction poster print is from 1956. It measures 17 inches wide x 22 inches tall, a perfect retro print to be matted and framed up and hung up in the garage, office, shop or workshop.
1947 Hudson Speedway Midget Racing Poster Print
Too Cool !! Love the artwork on this poster print. What a great retro reproduction poster from the 40′s. This reproduction poster print measures 17 inches wide x 22 inches tall.
A 1/4 mile paved racetrack, the Hudson Speedway, lies near the northern edge of town by the intersection of Old Derry Road and Robinson Road. It can be accessed off Route 102.
Midget car racing was officially born on August 10, 1933 at the Loyola High School Stadium in Los Angeles as a regular weekly program under the control of the first official governing body, the Midget Auto Racing Association (MARA. After spreading right across the country, the sport traveled around the world; first to Australia in 1934, and to New Zealand in 1937. Early midget races were held on board tracks previously used for bicycle racing. When the purpose built speedway at Gilmore Stadium was completed, racing ended at the school stadium, and hundreds of tracks began to spring up across the United States. Other major tracks in the United States operating in the first half of the twentieth century include Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (near Madison), and Ascot Park near Los Angeles.
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.?
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.
1981 Riverside Stock Car Racing Poster Print
Today in history,29 years ago today…. the 1981 Riverside Stock Car Racing Poster Print. A flashback from 1981 here in SoCal. I do not carry many prints from the 80′s, however this is a cool one. Sharon Hodgdon 200, Warner Hodgdon 400 …Riverside . This reproduction print measures 25.5 inches wide x 11 inches tall.
1949 Oakland Stadium Speedway Program Poster Print. This reproduction poster measures 17 inches wide x 22 inches tall. A classic retro print from Oakland California.
1949 Oakland Stadium Speedway Program Poster Print
The Oakland Speedway was the first motor racing track near Oakland, California, a one-mile, banked dirt oval track built in 1931, which operated throughout the Great Depression and postwar years. The track featured AAA National Championship races with Indy cars and drivers from 1931 until 1936, when the AAA pulled out of the West Coast. Thereafter the track still featured racing by members of the Bay Cities Racing Association, in roadsters and motorcycles, as well as Big Cars, stock cars, and midgets. It was known as the “fastest dirt track in the Nation”.
In 1931 the Oakland Speedway was built near Oakland, but actually was located between Oakland and nearby Hayward, California, on the site of what is now Bayfair Mall in San Leandro, California.
Annually each fall the track hosted the “Oakland 500″ race. Many of the local East Bay races were exhibited by the Bay Cities Racing Association (BCRA). In 1948 local East Bay driver Bob Barkhimer quit racing to become the Business Manager for BCRA. In 1949 Barkhimer took over San Jose Speedway and also started his own association (CSCRA), and in 1954 he co-founded west coast NASCAR.
Among top drivers who were killed at the Oakland Speedway was Clyde Rea Bray, who had held second place in the A.R.A. points in 1939, behind champion Wally Schock. Bray had come in 5th in the Oakland “500″ that year. Two years later, on Labor Day, 1941, during the Oakland Speedway 500 race, on the 356th lap, Bray was fatally injured after being thrown from his car, after it sailed over the south fence.
Among legendary top race drivers who got their start at the Oakland Speedway was Bob Sweikert, the 1955 Indianapolis 500 winner. On Memorial Day, May 26, 1947 at the Oakland Speedway, Sweikert drove his own handbuilt track roadster in his debut race for prize money, and finished second.
1946 Lincoln Park Stadium Midget Racing Poster Print. Measures 14 inches wide x 22 inches tall. Awesome retro reproduction poster print.
64 years ago today !! Pretty crazy to think of it that way.A lot has changed in such a short time.
1946 Lincoln Park Stadium Midget Racing Poster Print
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