George Heath Driving No. 7 Panhard at Speed, 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race
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American driver George Heath won the first Vanderbilt Cup Race, held in 1904 on his native Long Island, New York, with a French-built Panhard race car. Heath averaged 52.2 miles per hour and bested his nearest competitor by 1 minute and 28 seconds.
American driver George Heath won the first Vanderbilt Cup Race, held in 1904 on his native Long Island, New York, with a French-built Panhard race car. Heath averaged 52.2 miles per hour and bested his nearest competitor by 1 minute and 28 seconds.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
08 October 1904
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
92.1.1774.N.V-04-57
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 5 in
Width: 4.25 in
Inscriptions
written on negative sleeve: No. 7 Panhard of George Heath at Speed
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