Carl H. Mayfield

1898 – 1968

 

This photograph of Carl Mayfield of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with his #C-13 Frontenac known as the Mayfield Special was taken at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson, Kansas on July 4, 1934.  Mayfield raced this car at Winfield, Kansas just three weeks after this photograph was taken.

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          Carl H. Mayfield was born on February 2, 1898 either at Chetopa, Kansas or in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), depending on which source is accurate.  He moved to Kansas as a small boy and grew up to be an automobile mechanic.  He built his first Mayfield Special in the late 1920s and campaigned in on racetracks across the Midwest, ocasionally sharing the driving duties with Leech and Happy Fox of Kansas City, Missouri, and with A. H. Kilgore of Salina, Kansas.  Mayfield’s racing career continued into the late 1930s.

          Mayfield moved to Denver, Colorado where he passed away in February of 1968.