Tag: Peter%20helck
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive-The Helck Family Memoirs #1: Old 16 at the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Jerry Helck, former owner of the Old 16 Locomobile and son of the great artist Peter Helck, has agreed to share family memoirs related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races. In the first post of the series, Jerry recalls when Old 16 was brought to the Old Timers Exhibition of the…
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A Salute to the Mets & Mystery Foto #44 Solved: A Gift to George Robertson From Peter Helck
The owner of this important Peter Helck painting forwarded these images for this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Anatomy of a Peter Helck Painting: Bulls Head Turn
In 1941 Peter Helck created this marvelous painting of Joe Tracy in his Locomobile battling Ferenc Szisz in a Renault at Bulls Head Turn in Greenvale during the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Mystery Artwork #23 Solved: #1 Thomas and #4 Thomas Prior to the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Krug’s
Stuart Middlemiss submitted our very first Mystery Friday artwork.
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Vanderbilia: The 1905 Locomobile Model Owned by the Helck Family
In 1948, prominent artist Peter Helck commissioned a model of the 1905 Locomobile that participated in the 1905 Gordon Bennett Race, the 1905 American Trial for the Vanderbilt Cup Race and finished third in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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The Garden City Hotel- Headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission
The Garden City Hotel, the largest and most exclusive hotel on Long Island, served as the headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission from 1904 to 1910.
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Then & Now: The Garden City Hotel
Since 1901 the largest and grandest hotel on Long Island was the Garden City Hotel... a perfect choice for a VanderbiltCupRaces.com "Then & Now".
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #36:The Stewart Avenue Bridge in East Meadow Updated:2/18/16
The 36th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Stewart Avenue Bridge in East Meadow.
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Article: “The Cup Races- Recollections of 1904-1905-1906” by Joe Tracy
VanderbiltCupRaces.com contributor Walter McCarthy has forwarded this July 1944 article by driver Joe Tracy published in Veteran Motor Car Club of America's Bulb Horn. Illustrations were provided by the prominent artist Peter Helck.
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Mechanician Joe Marx in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Jack T: "I was going through some of my Dad's (age 87) pictures and found two photos of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race. It appears my great-grandfather, Joe Marx, was a mechanic for the #7 car driven by William Luttgen. "
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…