Indy 500 1911-1974

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Indy 500 1911-1974

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Item No: arcc00164
Title: Indy 500 1911-1974
Production Year: 1974
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
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(top image caption) Then and Now...In 1911, Indy first ran its 500 mile sweepstakes and dust was a hazard. Fifty-eight years later, there are hazards of another sort, but it's the same old Indy. Indianapolis Motor Speedway

(bottom image caption) What makes Indy so special? Not just the big money, says Al Bochroch in American Automobile Racing: An Illustrated History. Nor the speed. "But it is the continuity (Indy has missed only the war years) that gives the 500 a special place in a sport where having a place to race is a perennial problem." A Studio Book, Viking, $16.95, July 17th, 1974

 

 


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