“The Greatest American Racing Car” – Locomobile Old 16 – Part II
This is the second in a series on The Old Motor of articles featuring the legendary 120 h.p. 1906 Locomobile, which won the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race at the hands of George Robertson. It is shown here in images from The Henry Ford Museum and contemporary press photos that were published shortly after it won that contest. We will not cover either the 1906 and 1908 Vanderbilt Cup races here, as they have been widely reported on many times before, but you can learn much more about the role this car played in them on earlier posts.
You can also see a video made by Academy Award winning film maker Sue Marks with the late PAUL NEWMAN introducing the Old 16 and telling the tale of “The day she raced the World and won”. In it you can see rare period film footage, photos and watch as curators at the museum ran the car through its paces in one of the last times that it was run in 2008. See all of it on The Old Motor.
