Barney Oldfield Images

Images from Barney Oldfield's racing career. Many of these are items collected from photocopies of newspapers preserved on microfilm. Many of the original photos have been lost to the ages, so some of these images rescued in this manner may be all that remains. While the quality is inferior by today's standards, they still provide interesting information about Oldfield and the events he participated in.

Lightning Benz

This is a photo that originally appeared in a spring 1910 edition of Literary Digest. One thing that is significant about it is it is an image of the "Blitzen" Benz during a time when it was re-named the "Lightning Benz." This is the car Barney Oldfield used to set the world land speed record in 1910 at Daytona Beach. One year later Bob Burman broke Oldfield's record again at Daytona.

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