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Stapp Land Speed Record

Stapp Record Car on Film

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Story by Dale LaFollette

Stop the Press! Oh, we can’t but this bit of YouTube just surfaced in reference to the below article and it simply must be seen. We’ve added this video to Dale LaFollette’s March 2019 piece on the Stapp record car.

https://youtu.be/8N9vTqY0ZRc

I have spent the last twenty-five years collecting, buying and selling period racing photography that interested me. I have known of the car illustrated here and had spent several years looking for a good vintage print when this one became available. My reason for the search was based on the wonderful story surrounding the builder of this car and the car itself. [Read more…] about Stapp Record Car on Film

Death of the Stapp Land Speed Record Car

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A conversation about the Stapp Record car and it’s demise.

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Dear Dale,

Nice article and nice photo, a well-known one. I fully agree with the conclusion of the article. I attach here a period color art of the Stapp’s accident published by the Italian popular magazine La Tribuna Illustrata, May 8, 1932. [Read more…] about Death of the Stapp Land Speed Record Car

And How! Mr. Stapp’s Imaginative LSR

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Story by Dale LaFollette

Stop the Press! Oh, we can’t but this bit of Youtube just surfaced in reference to the below article and it simply must be seen!!!

I have spent the last twenty-five years collecting, buying and selling period racing photography that interested me. I have known of the car illustrated here and had spent several years looking for a good vintage print when this one became available. My reason for the search was based on the wonderful story surrounding the builder of this car and the car itself. [Read more…] about And How! Mr. Stapp’s Imaginative LSR

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