I sat beside Peter De Paolo on a trip home from Florida, I was only 7, he was astounded at my knowledge of race car drivers and their cars. He kept a friendship with me until he died, he was very very kind to me. So of coarse I think he was one of the best.

the most amazing era of American motorsports

Great memories of the good old days of racing. These guys were the pioneers of motor racing.

I wondered a few years ago if we would ever see actual footage of the First Golden Age. Bob McDonogh, Peter Kreis, Leon Duray, Eddie Hearne, Dave Lewis and Cliff Woodbury -- not to mention Barney Oldfield -- (all captured here) were images in old picture books until now. As were the 122- and 91-cubic-inch, straight eight Duesies, Fronties and Millers that shredded the raw pine surfaces of these mile-plus tracks in three or four seasons. Imagine one just down the street from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Or on the south side of the fence from the MGM back lot in Culver City. Both packed to capacity to see if Tommy Milton, Jimmy Murphy, Frank Lockhart, Ralph Hepburn, Tony Gulotta, Bennett Hill or the above-named would survive to prevail. Brief as it is, see also the clip at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsl0g9tzptfUYIU.html which includes action at both of the tracks mentioned above.

This is a good thing , so glad someone recorded this history !

Great footage! Thank you. I recently began digging deeper into this era. Dick Wallen's Board Tracks: Guts, Gold and Glory is an excellent book as is Wall Smacker by Pete DePaolo.

Thank you for posting. Great video

My daughter and I are working on a history of the Altoona Speedway since our family was heavily involved in its construction and operation. My great uncle, Frank Cramer, was President of the Speedway Association and owner of two Miller Specials. We have fallen in love with the characters, the cars and what must have been the incredible excitement of that time. Like another comment made, I was thrilled to see this footage and recognized a few of the people from our print and photographic research. Seeing them in motion is wonderful.

It is funny to think those cars would be faster and possibly more stable if the bodies were reversed. And why did 2 people dislike this video? Because it wasn't in HD, color, or had sound?

These were the first super speedways in my opinion.

great piece of history this!!!!!

Beautiful. Record

crazy dangerous back then

There was impatient a** holes on the roads back then too I see. 😑 We haven't progressed at all in the past 100 years, just got worse

Do you by chance know at what track or tracks these were taken?