Business Ventures
Barney Oldfield also helped fellow racer Carl G. Fisher found the Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis. It is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States.
He developed the Oldfield tire for Firestone, which helped put Firestone on the map. Firestone used the slogan "'Firestone Tires are my only life insurance,' says Barney Oldfield, world's greatest driver."
In 1924, the Kimball Truck Co. of Los Angeles, CA, built the only 1924 Oldfield.
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Famous quotes containing the words business and/or ventures:
“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 4:2.
Eliphaz, one of Job’s “comforters,” to Job.