Tag: 1900 Newport Races
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Greg O’s Garage; Willie K.‘s Racing Records
Wliie K's racing records from 'The Log of my Motor'
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Video: The Preservation Society of Newport County Fall 2022 Lecture: The Advent of the Automobile including The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races
The Preservation Society of Newport County has posted a 90-minute video of their Fall 2023 lecture.
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The Preservation Society of Newport County Fall 2022 Lecture: The Advent of the Automobile including The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races
Over 75 people attended The Preservation Society of Newport County's Fall Gilded Age event including my presentation" The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races: The Road from Newport to Long Island." More than 100 people also participated by Zoom.
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Mystery Foto #13 Solved: 1900 Daimler Phoenix previously owned by Willie K.
Art Kleiner challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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VanderbiltCupRaces Exclusive: The 1900 Newport Automobile Races & the First Vanderbilt Cup Trophy
The first major race in which William K. Vanderbilt Jr. competed was held in September 1900 in Newport, Rhode Island. It was also at this race where the first William K.Vanderbilt Jr. cup was given to a winner of an automobile race...four years before the Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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Willie K.‘s Cars #1: The 1900 23-HP Daimler “White Ghost”
From 1900 to 1905, William K. Vanderbilt , Jr was a pioneering race car driver, competing succesfully in the United States and Europe. Willie's K's racing career and his racing cars will be documented in a new VanderbiltCupRaces.com series "Willie K.'s Cars".
hi, how do you date the chassis of a car with the fedco plate? my fedco plate read
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