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- Driven to Win: Igniting the Passion - Explore the "Igniting the Passion" section of our new auto racing exhibit Driven to Win to learn how children find a lifelong interest in racing.
- May 20, 2021
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Driven to Win: Igniting the Passion
Explore the "Igniting the Passion" section of our new auto racing exhibit Driven to Win to learn how children find a lifelong interest in racing.
- New Racing Acquisitions at The Henry Ford - Curator of Transportation Matt Anderson walks you through some of the newly-collected auto racing artifacts you can see in our new exhibit, Driven to Win, in Henry Ford Museum.
- June 01, 2021
- Collections - article
New Racing Acquisitions at The Henry Ford
Curator of Transportation Matt Anderson walks you through some of the newly-collected auto racing artifacts you can see in our new exhibit, Driven to Win, in Henry Ford Museum.
- Basil "Jug" Menard Posing with a Modified Ford Coupe Race Car. Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 1946 - Like many other young drivers of the time, Basil "Jug" Menard fell in love with auto racing. Through the late 1940s, he competed in amateur events at tracks in his native Massachusetts. Here Menard poses proudly -- with a smile on his face and hands on his hips -- in front of his modified 1933-34 Ford race car.
- circa 1946
- Collections - Artifact
Basil "Jug" Menard Posing with a Modified Ford Coupe Race Car. Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 1946
Like many other young drivers of the time, Basil "Jug" Menard fell in love with auto racing. Through the late 1940s, he competed in amateur events at tracks in his native Massachusetts. Here Menard poses proudly -- with a smile on his face and hands on his hips -- in front of his modified 1933-34 Ford race car.