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1905 Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer

1905 Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer 1905 Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer 1905 Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer Carl Fisher, who later founded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and developed Miami Beach from swamplands into an exotic resort area, was in his final days as a race driver when he commissioned from the Indianapolis-based Premier Motor Manufacturing Company, a car for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup race on Long Island. Únfortunately, the result was a 4-cylinder, 923 cubic-inch air-cooled monster that exceeded the event's weight limit of 2,204 pounds by some 300 pounds. Even after drilling 256 holes in the frame, 190 in the engine support, and 128 in the rear axle - not to mention dispensing with the bodywork and underpan - the car was still too heavy. Fisher later drove it in a few events at Midwestern fairgrounds tracks before it was retired.

Source - Indy Motor Speedway Museum

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