Ford Flat Out

Ford Flat OutRacing was one of the big foundation stones under the Ford Motor Company: The publicity that sprang from Barney Oldfield's campaigning in Henry Ford's "999," a rough but fast dirt-track car, was the prime mover that sent the company rocketing off on the way to being the colossus it is today. Ford had tried twice: Two companies had been shot from under him; in 1902, he began to put together the third and last one.Ford was above everything a mechanic, but he was a driver, to...