This is my wife's favorite excerpt from my book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway." Autographed copies available at the link.
1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (
I assume this was a hoax or at least the dream of some impractical "inventor" but whatever happened to the carbonic gas engine car? This from an August 1908 issue of Motor Age.