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11 lut 2018 · February 12th, 1908 is a date that will live on in automotive history. Six automobiles from France, Italy, Germany, and the United States left New York City to begin a race around the world from N.Y. to Paris! 250,000 people cheered them on. The race was sponsored by the New York Times and Le Matin, a Paris newspaper.
The seventeen men who started the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic Norwegian outdoorsman, a witty French count, a pair of Italian sophisticates, an aristocratic German army officer, and a cranky mechanic from Buffalo, New York.
26 sty 2017 · The 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race saw racers travel nearly 22,000 miles in the middle of winter, with a bizarre plan to travel a frozen Bering Strait. Sometimes real life throws up events too crazy to invent. ... Not really, but incredibly, within six months two teams had traveled roughly 22,000 miles and completed the journey. The American ...
24 lip 2018 · Schuster reached the Eiffel tower on July 30, 1908, 169 days after leaving New York. The Germans and Italians followed. None of the French super-cars got further than Vladivostok, and one dropped out after less than 100 miles. The race was sponsored by The New York Times and Le Matin, a Paris newspaper.
It is snowing in Times Square, New York, on February 12th, 1908 as six automobiles line up at the start of a 22,000-mile race to Paris. Along Broadway 250,000 people cheer them on as they head north: three French vehicles, De Dion, Sizaire-Naudin and Moto-Bloc; one German Protos; one Italian Zust; and the American entry, a Thomas Flyer.
14 cze 2005 · A natty reconstruction of the famous round-the-world auto race. When the contraption was only in its 20th year, six cars undertook to drive from New York to Paris the long way, 22,000 miles west from the starting point.
28 wrz 2011 · The original purpose of these events was to demonstrate the viability of motorcars as a means of transportation. The first in the U.S. was the 1895 Chicago-Waukegan-Chicago. By 1907, the longest ...
