Sixty-mph Proved Too Much at
the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup

Attached is a seldom-seen action photograph of an unidentified car and driver smashing into the crowd-control fencing at the Vanderbilt Cup Races held in Santa Monica, California during the summer of 1914. The unstoppable juggernaut was cruising at sixty-miles miles per hour.

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