Isotta #6  (1908)

Italian Isotta Wins the Motor Parkway Sweepstakes (1908)
Italian Isotta Wins the Motor Parkway Sweepstakes
Courtesy of The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum

The winner of the Motor Parkway Sweepstakes was Herb Lytle driving his Italian #P42 Isotta at an average speed of 64.25 mph, an American record for long-distance speed contests. As Lytle drove past the newly constructed Jerusalem Road Bridge over the Motor Parkway, his riding mechanician looked back towards the grandstand. The grandstand could be seen through the bridge passageway.

Isotta Passes Under Jerusalem Avenue Bridge (1908)
Isotta Passes Under Jerusalem Avenue Bridge
Courtesy of The National Automotive History Collection at the Detroit Public Library

Spectators on the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge watched Herb Lytle’s Italian Isotta challenge for the lead. Lytle put up a game fight in this stock car, finishing second. This was the same Isotta Lytle drove to victory in the Long Island Motor Parkway Sweepstakes.

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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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