Tag: 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Race
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Gregg D. Merksamer: “Remembering the 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Race”
The most exciting and spectacular automobile race ever held in Westchester County is considered the 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Race. Run six months before the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the Briarcliff race attracted skilled drivers and over 100,000 spectators along the 32.4-mile course.
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Mystery Foto #29 Solved: The 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Race
These four photos from an unknown family scrapbook were taken during a 1908 race held in New York.
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Exclusive: Glenn Ethridge in the Isotta Fraschini that Won the 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Stock Car Race
A relative of Glenn Ethridge, the mechanician of the winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Old 16, has forwarded this photo and requesting assistance:
hi, how do you date the chassis of a car with the fedco plate? my fedco plate read
YYY EEE ZERO THRE ONE WWW, so the…