Clic to make the Alco moooooooove....!

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A studio is not the best location for a big racer like this Alco. But maybe it is just a photo mock-up. Much better to do with a giant like that is to 'touch metal' in the way Harry Grant did. Click the photo to meet Harry doing the Vander Bilt (clic) and then read on: "After the great success of Harry Grant winning the big time Vanderbilt Cup Races back to back in 09-10 Alco decided to form a factory team. They went all out with a team of three cars. Harry continued with the chain drive six and was joined by Frank Lee and Harry Hartman in these shaft drive t-head production based 579 C.I. six cyl. racers. All three cars were entered in the 1911 Elgin road races in Illinois. Harry finished second to Len Zengle in his potent National. Frank Lee finished forth and Harry Hartman retired half way through the race. At the time this was considered a very good showing for the new race teem. Only three weeks later the company came out with the announcement that they where going to withdraw from racing. They said that than racing took more time and attention than they thought was justified in devoting to it. The racing community was suprised but this was common back in this era due to the large costs involved to field a team of racers and to ship them by rail to the events. Alco gave the two time Vanderbilt Cup winning car to Harry Grant "as an expression of our appreciation of his services to us." And just like that Alco was out of the racing business. " (photos & text David Greenlees; when you want to move an Alco in the real world you should get by at David's workshop and try his 1912 Alco Tourer (his) (photos and text David Greenlees)

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