This scarce card is one in a series of 50 cards
issued in Canada by PARKHURST
PRODUCTS Limited of 11 Wabash Ave
Toronto Ontario. No
guide that I am aware of provide a specific date of issue however the back of
the number 50 card in this series features a list of the 1959-60 Zip Hockey
Contest that Parkhurst ran. Also the
last Winner of the Indianapolis 500 listed
is the one for 1959, therefore this series was issued
in 1960 (thanks again to Bobby
Burell for bringing this to my attention).
The front features a colorful image of the
winning Driver and Car for the featured
year. There is a small note running across
the bottom of the front of each card that states “Reproduced with the Permission of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation”.
The
back of the card features times and stats for the card and driver, in both
English and French. The back also features
an advertisement that states “Hey Mom-Don’t
forget to buy Hawes, The finest in paste and liquid waxes”. Clearly this was an early attempt at cross
over marketing. However because of this
statement and the fact that there is no mention of Parkhurst on the card (a
frustrating but fairly common occurrence with Parkhust sets) many collectors
incorrectly identify this series as being issued
by Hawes. I have seen the wrapper that
these cards were distributed in and
it clearly states that the series was issued
by Parkhurst. This card is # 6 in the series AND
FEAUTRES THE 1916 Winner of the Indianpolis 500 DARIO RESTA in the PEUGEOT Car . Here is some information I found about him on the Internet : Dario
Resta (17 August 1882 – 3 September 1924), nicknamed
"Dolly", was an Italian Briton
race car driver. He was the winner of the 1916 Indianapolis 500. Dario Resta was born in Faenza, Italy[4] but
was raised in England from the age of two. He began racing there in 1907 when
he took part in the Montagu Cup, the very first race staged at the new
Brooklands race track. He set a record of 95.7 mph (154.0 km/h) in a half-mile
run a few years later. On October 2, 1913, alternating with Jean Chassagne and
Kenelm Lee Guinness in two-hour spells, Resta set up a series of long distance
World Records with a Sunbeam Grand Prix car fitted with a single-seater body.
After competing in Grand Prix motor racing in Europe, including the 1913 French
Grand Prix, he went to the U.S. In early 1915 he was brought to the United
States by Alphonse Kaufman, an America importer of Peugeots, to drive Kaufman's
Peugeot EX3. In January he married Mary Wishart, the sister of racer Spencer
Wishart who had died the previous year. In February he won the United States Grand
Prix, more properly named the United States Grand Prize, at San Francisco
followed by a victory in the Vanderbilt Cup. After leading during the final
stages of that year's Indianapolis 500, he finished second to Ralph DePalma
when his car skidded and he had to make a pit-stop for tyres. Resta then drove
his blue Peugeot to victory in the inaugural 500-mile (800 km) race on the
board track at the Chicago Speedway on 26 June 1915. The
race received eighteen pages of coverage in the 1 July 1915, issue of Motor Age
magazine. The following year, in 1916, en route to winning the United States
National Driving Championship, Resta repeated as the winner of the Vanderbilt
Cup plus he won the 1916 Indianapolis 500, the Chicago 300, the Minneapolis 150
and the Omaha 150 races. With World War
I raging in Europe and the United States entering the war in 1918, races were
reduced to a minimum. During 1918 Resta drove a Peugeot at a race in Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn, a minor event with only a handful of competitors. In 1923 Resta
returned to racing at the age of 39, making his first appearance in Beverly
Hills, California. Next, he made another attempt at Indianapolis but was forced
out of the race after 225 miles (362 km). Racing again in Europe, Resta
finished 3rd in the Penya Rhin Grand Prix and won the voiturette class at the
Spanish Grand Prix. He drove for Sunbeam in the 1924 season with teammates
Henry Segrave and Kenelm Lee Guinness. Dario Resta was killed in England on 3
September 1924 at the age of 42 when his car crashed at Brooklands while trying
for a new land speed record. Resta was driving a Sunbeam when a belt on his
car broke on the second lap and punctured his tyre sending him out of control.
The car crashed through a corrugated iron fence on the Railway Straight and
caught fire. This accident also
hospitalized his riding-mechanic, Bill Perkins, causing him to miss the San
Sebastian Grand Prix a few weeks later. Perkins was Sunbeam driver Kenelm Lee
Guinness's regular mechanic and so was substituted by Tom Barrett. Guinness
suffered a serious crash during this race, in which Barrett was killed and this
accident led to the end of the practice of carrying riding-mechanics during
races.
The Card measures
3 5/8 inches by 2 7/16 inches approximately.
The card does have creasing and wear. I
have scanned
the front and back of the card fairly large so you can determine the condition
for yourself. I will be trying to list several EARLY TRADE
& TYPE CARDS over the next few days (spread across different
categories), including one or two
that are unrecorded in any guide, that were put given away with Tobacco,
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I will be trying to list several EARLY
TRADE & TYPE CARDS over the next few days (spread across
different categories), including one or two that are unrecorded in any
guide, that were put given away with Tobacco, Cigarettes , Caramel, Candy, Gum,
Chocolate, Bread Coffee Tea Cereal and other products, covering such diverse
subjects as Native American Indians , Baseball , Football, Boy Scouts, Ice
Hockey, Golf, Presidents of the United States, NCAA and IVY League Colleges and
Universities, Dog Breeds, Circus themes
and many more. To view the other cards I have up on ebay please
click on the “View Sellers other Items” Icon located on this page. It
will take you directly to them.
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haven’t received payment for an item by Sunday evening, the item will
have to wait until the next Monday to go out. Its unfortunate but
unavoidable. If this doesn’t work for you I respectfully ask that
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