Favorite Websites
Sunday, 2/14/10 and Monday, 2/15/10 Update: A Visit to the Amazing Simeone Foundation Museum
On Saturday John Cuocco and I had a memorable visit to the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum located in Philadelphia. Assembled by renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Frederick Simeone over a span of 50 years, the Museum collection contains over 60 of the rarest and most significant racing sports cars ever built.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010: A Favorite Website: Team Dan Race Archives
Darren Galpin at the Team Dan website has compiled the results for major historic races and drivers including five of the six William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Cup Races held on Long Island.
Saturday, January 16, 2010: A Favorite Website: WikiMapia
WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information, in the form of a note, to any location on Earth. Here are some links to locations related to the Long Island Motor Parkway and Vanderbilt Cup Races
Friday, 1/8/2010: A Favorite Website: Chronicling America-Access to Historic Newspaper Articles
Art of Art’s Long Island Motor Parkway Site has recommended Chronicling America as a favorite website for VanderbiltCupRaces.com. Here’s Art’s description of a website that provides access to many historic newspaper articles dating back to 1690:
Saturday, January 2, 2009: A New Favorite Website: OldLongIsland.com
Zach, a historic preservation graduate student, has created the website OldLongIsland.com dedicated to the preservation of Long Island’s “Gold Coast” estates and other thing old”. This excellent website has photos and details on over 175 Long Island estates including several mansions related to Vanderbilt Cup Race personalities.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009: Favorite Website: Tribute to the Bridgehampton Race Circuit
Ash Automobilia has developed a wonderful website as a Tribute to the Bridgehampton Race Circuit. This website on Long Island’s great long lost race course includes; photos, race films, and links to websites, articles and books.
Links to Favorite Websites on the Vanderbilt Cup Races and Motor Parkway: Latest Addition 2/01/10
These are links to my favorite websites related to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Thursday, 12/10/2009: A Favorite Website: The Fairchild Collection of the NY State Archives-Queens
Bill Bellmer has discovered a website gem for all LIMPers who enjoy the historic Fairchild aerial surveys of Long Island: The Fairchild Aerial Survey Collection in the New York State Archives. Hundreds of aerials from the 1940s and 1950s can be enlarged and printed out. Of course the real challenge is finding the Motor Parkway.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009: A New Website Favorite- Horseless Carriage Foundation
If you research automobiles or auto racing history from 1895 to 1922, you should consider becoming a member of the Horseless Carriage Foundation.
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Recent Entries
- Sunday, March 14, 2010: A Tribute to Peter Helck (1893-1988), the Great American Artist
- Saturday,3/13/10: Vanderbilia to be Displayed at Upcoming Museum of the City of New York Exhibition
- Friday, March 12, 2010: March/April Long Island Automotive Events Update
- Thursday,3/11/10: Article “Driving The Ford” & the Future of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Winner
- Thursday, March 10, 2010: From the Pardington Papers: Original Parkway Names and Toll Gate Locations
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010: The Alco “White Beast” at the 1910 Worcester Dead Horse Hill Climb
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The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.
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