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Solved: PN #475 -- Walter Gossman's Red Devil, 1914
« on: April 13, 2013, 04:57:01 AM »
Please identify this car for a point
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2013, 04:57:53 AM »
Where's the rest of it?  :D
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2013, 11:54:35 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2013, 06:14:46 AM »
American ?
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2013, 06:35:17 AM »
yes
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2013, 07:24:17 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2013, 11:18:58 AM »
Motorcycle engine ?

(I'm thinking Henderson)
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2013, 12:23:19 PM »
it is not mentioned in the source, but it is very likely
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2013, 11:49:59 AM »
It is Walter Gossman of Los Angeles sitting in his self-built cycle car, the Red Devil, at the Tacoma Speedway in September 1914. It was his first race ever.
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Re: PN #475
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2013, 02:40:02 PM »
nice find
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Re: Solved: PN #475 -- Walter Gossman's Red Devil, 1914
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2013, 02:45:26 PM »
Actually I was looking for the solution to one of Otto's puzzles when I came across this picture.
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