{"id":7862,"date":"2015-04-01T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=7862"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:22:25","slug":"a-foundation-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-foundation-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foundation of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1-100x48.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1-770x372.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p1-1-1-293x142.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>Few figures in American racing history have had as much impact as Harry Miller, builder of an incredible range of successful and groundbreaking racing cars over the early decades of the 20th century. Given this month\u2019s Profile of a car from Miller\u2019s primary era, we thought it would be good to take another look at his legacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the home page, if you click on the link \u201cMiller History\u201d in the left hand column, you will go to a page with a central block of text just below which is found a link saying: \u201cGo to Miller History.\u201d Clicking there opens a page entitled (what else?) \u201cMiller History,\u201d where you\u2019ll find an abridged biography of one Harry Arminius Miller, described as, \u201cquite simply, the greatest creative figure in the history of the American racing car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p2.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p2-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p2-100x97.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/HD201504-p2-293x284.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a>In the interest of full disclosure, please note that the site duly credits and excerpts the two biographies that provide the foundation upon which its content is constructed, Griff Borgeson\u2019s Miller, and Mark Dees\u2019 The Miller Dynasty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The site breaks Miller\u2019s life down into segments, with the first covering from his birth in 1875 to 1916, and then continuing in four-year intervals through to 1932, before adding an 11-year segment for 1933-1943 that\u2019s followed by a list of \u201cRacing Highlights\u201d that should keep you busy for a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milleroffy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.milleroffy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few figures in American racing history have had as much impact as Harry Miller, builder of an incredible range of successful and groundbreaking racing cars over the early decades of the 20th century. Given this month\u2019s Profile of a car from Miller\u2019s primary era, we thought it would be good to take another look at his legacy. From the home page, if you click on the link \u201cMiller History\u201d in the left hand column, you will go to a page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":709375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[17152,545,17164],"class_list":["post-7862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","tag-car-culture","tag-history","tag-websites-we-love"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Foundation of History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Foundation of History\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-foundation-of-history\/\" 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