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Nov 10 2011
May 7, 1911 The World : Harry Grant Practicing on the Motor Parkway at 107.8 Miles Per Hour
Margaret, George and Eric Vitale of Barn Find Antiquities recently purchased a vintage leather trunk. To their surprise, the bottom of the truck was lined with a May 7, 1911 edition of the newspaper The World including this article: (2 comments)
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Nov 09 2011
Highlights from the Second Clean Up the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge Day
The clean up of the Motor Parkway Bridge in the Old Bethpage Village Restoration continued last Sunday. Twenty-five men and women of the Model A Ford Club of Long Island and the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society made great progress to remove debris and clean up the surrounding area. (0 comments)
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Nov 08 2011
The 1931 Caddy with Two Long Island Motor Parkway Plates
One classic car that really caught my eye at the 2011 Cradle of Aviation Museum Car Show hosted by the Long Island Sound Region of CCCA was this beautiful 1931 V-8 Cadillac. Look closer at the radiator and you will see two authentic Motor Parkway license plates in mint condition and previously not recorded in the Motor Parkway License Plate Census. (1 comments)
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Nov 07 2011
Hemmings Blog: “Miller Club to celebrate Milwaukee Vanderbilt Cup centennial”
Hemmings Blog reported today that the Harry A. Miller Club will recognize the 1912 Vanderbilt Cup Race held in Milwaukee at their 2012 annual meet: (1 comments)
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Nov 05 2011
Video “The First Annual Motor Parkway Parade”
This 5-minute film documents the First Annual Motor Parkway Parade held on Sunday, October 30, 2011. (0 comments)
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Nov 03 2011
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #11 Little Neck Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Queens
When the 48 miles of the Motor Parkway were completed in 1926, a total of 65 bridges were built by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his associates over and under the parkway. Going west to east, the next to last of the 12 Queens bridges was the trestle Motor Parkway bridge over Little Neck Road (later renamed Little Neck Parkway): (8 comments)
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Nov 02 2011
CSI Report:Montague Roberts and Robert Jardine in the 1905 American Elimination Trial
Steve Lucas forwarded a request from Barbara Russell, the Brookhaven Town Historian, to help identify two photos recently discovered in their archives. Steve wrote: "She was hoping that you could identify them as to date, event, place, and type of car. They appear to be a race and thought maybe one of the Vanderbilt Cup Races." (5 comments)
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Nov 01 2011
Highlights and Archives for VanderbiltCupRaces.com- October 2011
October 2011 Summary A total of 8,126 unique visitors (an average of 262 visitors per day and 3.8 pages per visit) viewed the website in October 2011, a 59% increase over October 2010. This represented the highest monthly viewership in the history of VanderbiltCupRaces.com . For the first ten months of 2011, a total of 57,011 unique daily viewers have visited VanderbiltCupRaces.com, a daily average of 187 and a 39% increase over YTD 2010 and a whopping 154% increase over YTD 2009. Thanks for… (0 comments)
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Nov 01 2011
Archives: Then & Now
Links to related "Then & Now" posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated August 7, 2011): (0 comments)
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Nov 01 2011
Archives: Vanderbilia
Below are related links to Vanderbilia on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: February 1, 2012) (0 comments)
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