Griffith History Museums

Motorcycles. Stock cars. Indy cars. Griffith resident and owner of the Griffith Airport, Paul Goldsmith has raced them all — and won.

Born in West Virginia, moving to Detroit in his teens, Goldsmith found work in a Chrysler plant. With the money earned there, he bought his first motorcycle shortly after World War II, found he had the skills to be a competitive racer and the rest is racing history.

Goldsmith won five American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Nationals from 1952-1955, as well as the winning the ’53 Daytona 200, before moving onto stock cars in 1956 at the urging of a friend. For a number of years he raced Pontiacs, then moved on to Chryslers. Continue reading “Racing Legend Paul Goldsmith to visit Franklin Center” →