Auburn, Indiana, a town of less than 14,000 residents, has three notable automobile museums. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and the National Auto and Truck Museum are well known. The Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum is Auburn’s newest, and it is not as well-known but worthy of a visit. It ...
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Racing on July 4 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
In its 115-year history, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has hosted a race over the July 4 holiday weekend only once. After resurfacing the Speedway with brick, the owners planned four events for the 1910 racing season—races on Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Labor Day weekends, and a 24-hour ...
Financing Needed Improvements To IMS
By 2013, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, once the crown jewel of auto racing, was showing its age. It badly needed a facelift, particularly in comparison to the new Circuit of the Americas track in Austin, Texas, and the planned $400 million to the Daytona International Speedway. In July 2013, Derek ...
ASPAR Almost Derails the 1947 Indianapolis 500
In the years immediately following World War II, most racing teams were small private companies dependent upon racing for their livelihood. One of their goals was to increase the prize money. As a result, in 1946, a group of West Coast racers led by Joel Thorne formed the American Society ...