118 years ago tonight, June 22, 1907, Ford won:

[Rob]

118 years ago tonight, June 22, 1907, Ford race car drivers Frank Kulick and L. B. Lorimer completed a grueling 24 hour race, begun the night before at 10 pm. They drove a Ford Six (Model K, like the one seen on my FB page) to a world record victory.
By 1907, the 24 hour race, held at various one mile dirt tracks around the country, had become the most popular event in the relatively new sport of auto racing. The competition in this particular event, held at the state fairgrounds track near Detroit, included a Pope Toledo, Thomas Flyer, American (Underslung), Buick, Stevens Duryea, Wayne as well as two smaller Ford Model R.
Throughout the night, telegrams and phone calls went out to newspapers around the country, who reported the results with special edition sports pages updating readers on the progress of the race. When the dust had settled, a new world record was established by the Ford Six, making the Modrl K Fords first world speed record holder in Fords short history. Ford did not have another production vehicle capture a world record for another forty plus years.
One of the cars that the Ford and its drivers beat was the third place finisher Thomas Flyer. This was the same modrl 60 hp Thomas Flyer that would win the New York to Paris race the next year (1908).
In this video friend and fellow early Ford enthusiast Bob Coiro narrates the brochure Ford Motor Company immediately published telling the amazing story of the Ford Six. Click on the link below to watch the 16 minute video:
victory:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rqlshgsc ... kes2w&dl=0