October 3, 2015
Eddie Rickenbacker and Fred McCarty by The Auburn University Digital Library
Via Flickr:
Eddie Rickenbacker (right) and Fred McCarty in Peugot racing gear. While driving for Peugeot, Rickenbacker invented a way to communicate with his riding mechanic...

Eddie Rickenbacker and Fred McCarty by The Auburn University Digital Library
Via Flickr:
Eddie Rickenbacker (right) and Fred McCarty in Peugot racing gear. While driving for Peugeot, Rickenbacker invented a way to communicate with his riding mechanic over the roar of the engines by connecting two leather face masks together with rubber speaking tubes. While this worked well, he gave up the idea after deciding the masks were “unbearably hot and itchy.” Caption on verso reads, “Our Latest Gemini Astronauts? No, not from our next projected space flight, but from another era, the two gentlemen behind the masked are Eddie Rickenbacker ® and Fred McCarty (l), driver and mechanic of a Peugeot race car during the 1914 Corona, Calif. road race.

April 23, 2014

I love the way the French shoot cars.

Exhibit A:

Peugeot HX1 photography by Patrick Curtet (2012)