Howard "Howdy" Wilcox grew up in Crawfordsville, IN and drove in his first Indy 500 at the age of 22. In 1919, after leading the race for 98 laps, Wilcox won his first and only Indy 500.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Indy 500 - Howard "Howdy" Wilcox 1915
Howard "Howdy" Wilcox grew up in Crawfordsville, IN and drove in his first Indy 500 at the age of 22. In 1919, after leading the race for 98 laps, Wilcox won his first and only Indy 500.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Indy 500 - 1911 McFarlan Six
Between 1909 and 1928 McFarlan built automobiles in
Connersville, Indiana as an outgrowth of John B. McFarlan's Carriage Company.
Alfred H. McFarlan, John's grandson conceived of and ran the McFarlan Motor
Company for all 19 years of its existence.
McFarlan cars were entered into the 1911 and 1912 Indy 500
races without a win after which the company focused on luxury automobiles and
McFarlans were owned by Wallace Reid, William Desmond Taylor, Fatty Arbuckle,
Paul Whiteman, Jack Dempsey, and E. Lee Trinkle (governor of Virginia). Al
Capone purchased one for his wife in 1924 and a second in 1926.
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