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Tag Archives: “Motoring in America: The Early Years” Frank Oppel

DETROIT RACES 1901

WHEN THE SECOND MOTOR CAR was built, its driver likely challenged the first. Thus came motor sports. According to Motoring in America: The Early Years, so it was in Detroit … Continue reading

September 26, 2023 · 5 Comments

WOMEN AT THE WHEEL

I RECENTLY READ a debunking of the “just a woman driver” myth. It was in “What a Woman Can Do With an Auto” by Robert Sloss who made “the surprising … Continue reading

November 30, 2019 · Leave a comment

PACIFIC COAST TOURING

“AUTOMOBILE TOURING on the Pacific Coast is altogether a different matter from that of tooling about the East.” This claim comes from Charles Fuller Gates, a travel, bicycle and motoring … Continue reading

March 16, 2016 · Leave a comment