Vanderbilt Cup Races

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  Nov 07 2015

  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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  Oct 28 2015

  Exclusive Photos: The Mustang II Prototype Concept Car Making Its Debut at the Watkins Glen in 1963

  The Ford Mustang II Prototype concept car made its debut at a 1963 Formula I race at Watkins Glen, New York on October 6, 1963. Mike Carroll of the Jaguar Drivers Club of Long Island captured the arrival of the Mustang II at Watkins Glen in these photos.

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  Jul 04 2015

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: How Vincent Gardner Saved the Mustang III from Being Destroyed

  This is the story of how the Mustang III was saved from the crusher by its designer Vincent Gardner. This amazing story is supported by legal documents and correspondence which previously have never been made public.

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  Jun 12 2015

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Long Island Motor Parkway Garage Discovered!

  On May 27, 2015, I accompanied Arthur Mauriello, grandson of Thomas Zinzi and Josephine Zinzi, to the site of the Massapequa Lodge, formerly in Plainedge now located in Bethpage. Our adventure and Motor Parkway discoveries are documented in this post.

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  Jun 10 2015

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Photos From the First Long Island Motor Parkway Officer

  In the second in our series, Arthur Mauriello, grandson of Thomas Zinzi and Josephine Zinzi, has provided more photos from his family albums.

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  May 27 2015

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive:Thomas J. Zinzi- The First Long Island Motor Parkway Police Officer

  Sixteen years after it opened, the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. determined that motorcycle patrols were needed to improve the safety of the road. The first Motor Parkway police officer hired in 1924 was Thomas Zinzi, previously assistant Parkway repair foreman and the husband of Josephine Zinzi, the Massapequa Lodge…

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  Feb 07 2015

  Exclusive: Glenn Ethridge in the Isotta Fraschini that Won the 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Stock Car Race

  A relative of Glenn Ethridge, the mechanician of the winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Old 16, has forwarded this photo and requesting assistance:

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  Dec 27 2014

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive:The 1908 Race Album of William Luttgen & William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.

  William Luttgen participated in four Vanderbilt Cup Races, three as a driver (1904, 1906, and 1908) and one as a mechanician (1905). Today, I met with his grandson Robert Luttgen of Key Biscayne, Florida, who brought along a rare photo album of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

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  Aug 09 2014

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Then & Now- The First Parkway Fast Food Restaurant

  On June 24, 2014, information and photos were posted on the Halfway House Tea Room, possibly the first parkway fast food restaurant in the United States.

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  Jun 28 2014

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Rog Patterson’s Memories of the 1951 Bridgehampton Races

  Rog Patterson has forwarded these wonderful memories of the 1951 Bridgehampton Races.





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