Howard Kroplick to be a featured speaker at the Fifth FIVA Pan-European Conference for Automotive History in Lillehammer, Norway
I am honored to been asked to present at the Fifth Pan-European Conference for Automotive History in Lillehammer, Norway on September 19, 2026.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Fifth FIVA Pan-European Conference for Automotive History - the leading conference on automotive history and related heritage.
18–20 September 2026 | Norwegian Roads Museum, near Lillehammer, Norway
You are warmly invited to the Fifth Pan-European Conference for Automotive History, organised by FIVA in cooperation with the Norwegian Federation for Historic Vehicles (LMK) and hosted at the Norwegian Roads Museum.
This biennial conference was originally masterminded by the late Anders Ditlev Clausager together with Thomas Ulrich and today is this leading international forum brings together historians, researchers, curators, authors, professionals, and passionate enthusiasts to share knowledge, present new research, and engage in high-level discussion on the cultural, social, and technological history of mobility.
Historian and author Howard Kroplick will be one of the featured speakers at the conference on the topic "The Vanderbilt Cup Races: America's First International Road Races".
"The Vanderbilt Cup Races: America's First International Road Races"
Chain your dogs and lock up your fowls!” heralded posters throughout Long Island in announcing the first international road race ever to be held in America. From 1904 to 1910, six Vanderbilt Cup Races were held on Long Island roads. Developed from the imagination of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., great grandson of millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt, these races were the most prestigious and thrilling auto races of their day, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators to Long Island in the United States.
Considered one of the world's experts on the Vanderbilt Cup Races, Howard's presentation will relive auto racing’s earliest triumphs including the competition between Europe and the United States and the development of the Long Island Motor Parkway- the first road built exclusively for the automobile.
Highlights will include the adventures of Europe's drivers and manufacturers in these races including:: Vincenzo Lanzia (Italy-FIAT), Louis Chevrolet (Italy-FIAT),Felice Nazzaro (Italy-FIAT), Victor Hemery (Darracq-France), Louis Wagner (Darracq-France), Fernand Gabriel (DeDietrich-France), William Luttgen (Mercedes-Germany) and Camille Jenatzy (Mercedes-Germany).
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