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.

Oldfield at the Top of World Speed Chart

This chart was used frequently to illustrated the state of speed in 1910. Barney Oldfield's 131.720 mph speed record in March 1910 at Daytona-Ormond Beach wasn't just the world land speed record, but the world speed record, period, no asterisk. No airplane, no rocket, no train had ever gone faster. For a very brief window in time, the automobile sat atop the world of speed.

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