Between 1915 and the early 1930s, American manufactured and British manufactured automobiles were modified for road racing, both for dirt and for hard pan surfaces, board track racing (motordromes) and for hill climbs (as well as for any other competitive endeavor that the participants would invent). Stock chassis and running gear were generally used and numerous coachbuilders designed and sold ra
cer and speedster bodies, crated and boxed the design, and shipped them to the competitors. Back yard builders were prevalent. Designs were modified. American automobiles ended up in England and English automobiles ended up in the Americas. With the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, coupled with a concurrent increase in speed (and small race tracks disappearing rapidly), automobiles of this construction and era were replaced with automobiles endowed with raw speed for the new steep banked tracks of ample width.
6-29A is from the Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors, then part of the Oakland Motor Car Company, and she is a split L-head straight in line 6 cylinder racer, engine number P 615369. She was the 7,212 manufactured Pontiac after August 1929 and has been assigned a deliver date for daily or competition use of September 2, 1929.
6-29A is a Pre War Vintage Racer
