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"Legend of the First Super Speedway" Excerpt

By: Mark Dill

This is my wife's favorite excerpt from my book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway." Autographed copies available at the link.

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1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (

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Carbonic Gas Engine

11/16/2012

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.

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