Tag: 1909 Wheatley Sweepstakes
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Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: Ray Harroun in the Marmon ‘Yellow Jacket’
Did you identify this mystery racer?
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The 1909 Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes Won by Ray Harroun in a Marmon
During the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, two other sweepstakes races (the Massapequa Sweepstakes and the Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes ) were run simultaneously for commercially available stock cars. The Wheatley Sweepstakes had only four entrants for the "sub-class 3" stock cars with engines 231 to 300 cubic inches. The winner received…
Thanks to Howard Kroplick and http://www.vanderbiltcup races.com for Keeping American Automotive Racing History & my…