Mystery Friday Foto #22 Solved: #1 Locomobile at the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race pits
Did you Identify this racer at the pits?
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
- The race car
#1 Locomobile
- Driver and mechanician
Jim Florida (driver) and Leonard M. Travis (mechanician)
- Race and date
1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, October 24, 1908
- The location
In front of grandstand in the Hempstead Plains (Levittown)
- Finish position of the racer
Third place
- Accident that occurred with this racer
Crashed into spectator David Shuh, breaking his leg and hit a touring car/
Comments (2)
Congrats and kudos to Steve Lucas and Dick Gorman for solving the Mystery Foto.
Greg O. & Howard Kroplick
Comments
That’s the #1 Locomobile racer at the pits in the Hempstead Plains (Levittown) during the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race. The driver is Jim Florida with Leonard M. Travis as the mechanician. The date is October 24, 1908. Florida finished third in the race but at the end unavoidably crashed into spectator David Shuh breaking his leg. Shuh had irresponsibly ventured out onto the course. Florida also hit a private vehicle on the course but there were no reported injuries to the driver or two passengers.
Mystery Foto #22…The race car is the #1 Locomobile as driven by Joe Florida with mechanician Leonard M. Travis. This car was entered in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 24. The location was the Motor Parkway in Nassau County.The car finished in third place in the event. Sadly, it was involved in a crash with a Touring car at or near the finish line.