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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2010, 11:20:23 AM »
Not him, not that...
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #26 on: March 30, 2010, 11:49:00 AM »
Fast Eddie? ;)

Lee Oldfield in a Knox Racer?
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #27 on: March 30, 2010, 12:25:13 PM »
Not him and not a Knox...
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2010, 01:15:55 PM »
Looks a lot like the Louis Chevrolet-designed "Marquette" Buick.
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #29 on: March 30, 2010, 01:18:12 PM »
Not that...
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2010, 03:38:27 PM »
Jack Fleming, Pope-Hartford?
Panama-Pacific Road Race at Portola circuit - February 22, 1911?
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2010, 03:50:25 PM »
All these indy pilots died in 1911 on a racing car?
Not him, not that...
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #32 on: March 31, 2010, 07:38:02 PM »
I didn't say that Chevrolet was the driver. He had major imput anyway in the construction of the Model 10 "Marquette" Buick.
It was Lewis Strang who started on the pole of the first Indy 500 in a Case automobile. He was killed on July 20, 1911 testing the Buick in Blue River, Wisconsin.
Hence my deduction which, apparently was wrong.
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2010, 07:48:53 PM »
Got it, but my reply was after faksta's one...
This brand is not very known and lasted few years with few models.
There is a website dedicated to these cars.
It's not an impossible one.  ;)
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #34 on: April 01, 2010, 01:16:06 AM »
Colby Red Devil, cca 1913

Caption says:
Man at wheel of the Colby Motor Company 1912 model "Red Devil" racer. Location unknown (Colby Motor Co. based in Mason City, Iowa). ca. 1913

Mason City entrepreneur, William Colby, founded the Colby Motor Company in 1910. The first Colby, a five-passenger touring car, took to Mason City's streets on November 12, 1910. It performed to all expectations and was fast enough to earn a speeding ticket for its test driver.
Colby equipped his cars with premium materials and an engine designed to withstand Iowa's winters. Colby automobiles were put through endurance tests over the state's rutted, muddy dirt roads. The cars passed the tests with flying colors, including a 658-mile run from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Helena, Montana.
Colby also participated in the newly developing dirt-track car races being held throughout the Midwest. Billy Pearce, a Colby driver on the racing circuit, broke many track records and won trophies for the company. He died in 1911 while racing the Colby Red Devil in Sioux City. The car was repaired but never raced again.
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #35 on: April 01, 2010, 03:06:52 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on March 31, 2010, 03:50:25 PM
All these indy pilots died in 1911 on a racing car?
Not him, not that...

I got it that the driver did not necessarily die, but just spent his last race in 1911. :doh:
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #36 on: April 01, 2010, 03:57:18 AM »
Never would have found it!  :o
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Re: PJ - 294
« Reply #37 on: April 01, 2010, 06:51:05 AM »
You found it, and you can read yourself, that source reports a data 1913, then another 1912 and another, 1911.
The correct one is, according to another book, 1911, since the Red Devil was developed on a Model 30, and, of course because Billy Pearce died in the Kane County Cup in 1911.
Well done!
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Re: Solved -PJ294- Colby Model 30 'Red Devil' 1911
« Reply #38 on: April 01, 2010, 07:31:19 AM »
Good job indeed. I would have never found that one.
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