1906 Vanderbilt Cup

1906 Vanderbilt Cup Coverage

Attached are articles from the Indianapolis Star that cover the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup won by Louis Wagner. Wagner also raced in the 1919 Indianapolis 500. Check out the files titled "VCR Drivers" for an interesting photographic image.
A Call to Arms

This article from an April 1906 issue of The Automobile is an editorial that urges the American automobile industry to take track and road race competition seriously. It calls on the success of the American bicycle industry when they took up the mantle of competing with Euro manufacturers in the 1890's. That argument posits that through competition the market and the industry grew in the United States.
Herb Lytle - 1906

This is a clip from the September 18, 1906 edition of the Indianapolis Star and contains a couple of grainy images of driver Herb Lytle in this Pope-Toledo racer.
1906 American Elimination Trial

This article from the September 23, 1906 edition of the Indianapolis Star provides and overview of the 1906 American Elimination Trial for the Vanderbilt Cup Race of the same year. The Vanderbilt Cup rules were modeled after the James Gordon Bennett Cup, the first major road race in the world.
Elimination Trial Race Morning

This article appeared in the September 22, 1906 edition of the Indianapolis Star, which was also the date of the 1906 American Elimination Trial for the Vanderbilt Cup International Race.
Robertson Wrecks Jack Rabbitt

Contained in the attachments below are two articles from the Indianapolis Star and one from the Indianapolis News concerning practice for the American Elimination Trial for the Vanderbilt Cup Race.
Willie K's Narrow Escape

Published in the September 9, 1906 edition of the Indianapolis Star the attached article reports on the early practice for the 1906 American Elimination Trial for the Vanderbilt Cup Race of the same year. The focus is the appearance of William K.
Haynes Vanderbilt Cup Ad - 1907

The ad ran in the February 8, 1907 issue of the Indianapolis Star in support of coverage of the Chicago Auto Show running that week. The ad focuses on the Haynes Automobile and its performance in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup.
Haynes Qualifies for 1906 Vanderbilt Cup

It was big news in Indiana that a Hoosier-built car from Kokomo's Haynes Automobile Company qualified for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup by virtue of finishing third in the American Elimination Trial.
1906 Vanderbilt Cup Practice

The first attachment (VCRNews092706) below contains an article about opening practice for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup on Long Island. It was originally published in the September 27, 1906 Indianapolis News. It is titled, "Foreign Drivers On Vanderbilt Cup Course." The public had a fascination with the dashing European men in their exotic machines from oh-so-far-away.