Today a brief tip of our leather motoring helmet to pioneering race car driver Barney Oldfield (Berna Eli Oldfield, 1878-1946). Originally a bicycle racer, Oldfield switched to the greater thrills of automobiles in 1902. The following year he became the first person to drive a car at 60 mph. A little over a decade later […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:48AM on January 29, 2020