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, 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 and Circus themes.  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.

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.

Due to my work schedule and distance to the post office I am only able to ship  Monday Mornings.  If I 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 you do not bid or buy. Thanks again. 

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