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Showing posts with label racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racing. Show all posts
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Speed Girls: the Bugatti Queen
Hellé Nice was born as Helene Delangle near Chartres as daughter of a postmaster, moved to Paris as teenager, posed for naughty photographs sold to tourists, and soon became one of the most popular and best known dancing acts in Paris in the mid 1920s.
She started racing through contacts with members of the French motorsport world, like Baron Philippe de Rothschild, and Le Mans winner Henri de Courcelles. Hellé Nice successfully competed in Grand Prix and set multiple speed records in the 1930s in Bugatti’s and Alfa Romeo’s.
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She started racing through contacts with members of the French motorsport world, like Baron Philippe de Rothschild, and Le Mans winner Henri de Courcelles. Hellé Nice successfully competed in Grand Prix and set multiple speed records in the 1930s in Bugatti’s and Alfa Romeo’s.
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| Hellé Nice in an undated photograph (Jean-Pierre Poiter, Chelles, France/Random House) |
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| Hellé Nice after her victory in the 1929 Grand Prix Féminin which secured her a sleek Bugatti and the nickname ''The Speed Queen.'' |
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| Hellé Nice in Rio de Janeiro leading the field in her Alfa Romeo with No. 2. |
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Harley Davidson Hog Boys
Beginning in 1920, a team of farm boys, including Ray Weishaar, who became known as the "hog boys," consistently won races. The group had a live hog as their mascot. Following a win, they would put the hog on their Harley and take a victory lap. In 1983, the Motor Company formed a club for owners of its product taking advantage of the long-standing nickname by turning "hog" into the acronym HOG., for Harley Owners Group. Harley-Davidson attempted to trademark "hog", but lost a case against an independent Harley-Davidson specialist, The Hog Farm of West Seneca, NY, in 1999 when the appellate panel ruled that "hog" had become a generic term for large motorcycles and was therefore unprotectable as a trademark.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Memorial Day Motorcycle Races
Every Memorial Day, thousands of motorcyclists came to Cedarburg for the annual dirt track races at Firemen's Park. Due to problem with some of the "bikers' the races were discontinued in 1966. The Fire Department then started the Maxwell Street events that are now held four times each year.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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