Tag: Wallis Bird
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Feb 17 2024
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Unpublished Long Island Automotive Museum Photos from 1958 to 1962 Part 3
Here is a deep dive into more images from the Long Island Automotive Museum. Included is a look at the vehicles as they were in previously unseen images, museum postcards, and information on where the cars are today.
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Oct 24 2020
The Classic Car Magazine: The Wallis Bird Estate Classics
The Fall 2020 issue of The Classic Car magazine featured nine classic cars from the Wallis Bird Estate in an article by Chris Summers. All nine classics were sold at the 1962 "Car Auction of the Century" at the Farnesworth Garage in Locust Valley.
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Sep 02 2020
In Search of H. Dieter Holterbosch and his W.C. Bird’s Duesenberg
In 1962 H. Dieter Holterbosch purchased W.C. Bird's 1931 Duesenberg Speedster at the "Car Auction of the Century" on Long Island. I thought it would be fun to find out more about H. Dieter and what ever happened to his Duesenberg.
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Jul 13 2020
Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
We made it through another week! Several celebrated by solving this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Oct 24 2018
Exclusive: Photos from the Wallis C. Bird and Marjorie Winifred Kendall Bird Family Album
During the 1920s and 1930s, Benjamin Kendall was the mechanic and groundskeeper for the prominent Long Island automobile collector Wallis C. Bird. He was also a relative of Marjorie Winifred Bird, Wallis's wife, . Benjamin's grandson Steve has forwarded several photos from the family album.
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Jul 15 2014
More Insight into the Bird Cars, the Farnesworth Garage and the 1962 “Car Auction of the Century”
VanderbiltCupRaces.com viewers continue to share stories and information on the unique car collection of Wallis Bird, his Farnesworth garage and the 1962 "Car Auction of the Century".
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Jul 01 2014
The 1962 “Car Auction of the Century” at the Farnesworth Garage
Continuing yesterday's story of the "Farnesworth" garage, around 1924, the estate was purchased by a Standard Oil heir Wallis Clinton Bird and his wife Marjorie Winifred Kendall. Wallis kept a spectacular collection of cars in the garage.
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Jun 30 2014
Mystery Foto #74 Solved: The C.K.G. Billings “Farnesworth” Garage in Locust Valley
Steve Babinsky provided this week's Mystery Foto of an estate garage located in Nassau County which is still standing today.
Rollin’s granddaughter Betty King had this medal. She said she gave it to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum…