VanderbiltCupRaces.com CQI #4 (Comments, Questions and Insights)
Feedback and sharing of information are much appreciated on VanderbiltCupRaces.com . This fourth CQI post provides a sampling of recent comments, feedback and featured weekend car events on Long Island:
The First Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society
Joe D:“I’m so glad your having this In a place that has to do with the Motor Parkway “The Bonwit Inn”. Where Mr Lewis Austin had a place.
Ron Ridolph: "Please enroll me in the LIMP Preservation Society This new venture is most welcomed as it is timely with my 70th birthday and it has brought me great joy that cannot be explained !!!!"
Chris C: "Count me in."
The Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society has been accepted to be listed in PreservationDirectory.com, a comprehensive directory of historic and cultural resource organizations.
Join the Long Island Preservation Society, an outgrowth of the Long Island Motor Parkway Panel. If you like to become a Founding Member of this group dedicated to preserving the historic Long Island Motor Parkway, please send an email to me at [email protected] . Current # Founding Members: 32 (Updated: February 24, 2011)
Help Restore the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Motor Parkway Bridge
Roger Price: "I’d be interested in future meetings. This bridge needs to be preserved. The Model A Ford club has been active is clearing the debris under and around the bridge."
Then & Now: Extant Structures on the Vanderbilt Cup Race Courses
David Rex:"What a great idea and wonderful pictures. Thanks for putting the presentation together."
James S: "Brilliant before and after pics."
Tom: "I very much enjoy seeing these Then and Now pictures! Thanks!
From the McCarthy Collection: Four Hotels on the Vanderbilt Cup Race Course
Tom: "terrific thanks."
A Favorite Website: Long Island Ruins & Remnants
Joey Tabaco: "As preteen kids, we called it the “old motor road”, a great playground for us with our bicycles... As we got older, we ventured further east on it, all the way to where I live now in Lake Ronkonkoma. There was a lot more of it then than now from what I can remember from 50 years ago."
Film "The Long Island Automotive Museum"
SC Cutler: "Oh! Many were the times I visited there, and in the summer of ‘77, Mr. Clark gave me a job sorting and cataloging parts, in the warehouse, that he had purchased in the liquidation of an old parts house. I spent more time flirting with Maureen and Anne, though. What a place - and what a loss.
Life Magazine Automobile Cartoon Series #2: 1903 to 1928
John Dinkel: "The horse in 1951. Carroll Shelby breeds horses like this. But it’s interesting that the cartoonist did not have a “vision” of what the car like look like 40 years later. 40 years from now will we all have miniature cars on an RC leash. LOL.
Amazing Photos from the Archives of the Nassau County Division of Museum Services
Steve L: "Enzo Ferrari ran the racing team for Alfa hence the logo. always amazed that Alfa let him label their cars. Great site, thanks Howard."
The Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer that Never Raced
Russ Bilzing: "At first, I thought it was Barney Oldfield’s car that had the engine replaced with a 13 liter Zeppelin motor. Thanks for setting me straight."
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