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08/05/2009

I came across a small item (second page of the PDF, bottom) about how driver Louis Disbrow tuned his Pope-Hartford racer while driving it from Connecticut to the first Indianapolis 500. Hmm...now just how many cops do you suppose he left in the dust on those old dirt roads?

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