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  • An opportunity to win a tour of the Black Beast Garage and support Preservation Long Island  next Saturday
    Jan 15 2021

    An opportunity to win a tour of the Black Beast Garage and support Preservation Long Island next Saturday

    Please join me next Saturday night for Preservation Long Island's Trivia Night Benefit and the opportunity to win a tour of the Black Beast Garage. (0 comments)


  • The Alco Black Beast passes a dyno test
    Jan 13 2021

    The Alco Black Beast passes a dyno test

    Rob Ida conducted a dyno test on the Alco Black Beast today. Here is his analysis and 1-minute video. (5 comments)


  • Alco Black Beast visits Ida Automotive
    Jan 12 2021

    Alco Black Beast visits Ida Automotive

    The Alco Black Beast paid a visit to Rob Ida and his team today. (3 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #2 Solved: A 1956 aerial of the new opened  Roosevelt Field and almost completed Meadowbrook Parkway
    Jan 11 2021

    Mystery Foto #2 Solved: A 1956 aerial of the new opened Roosevelt Field and almost completed Meadowbrook Parkway

    The Cradle of Aviation Archives challenged to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto. (14 comments)


  • Road & Track September 1966: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and his 1948 Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa
    Jan 09 2021

    Road & Track September 1966: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and his 1948 Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa

    The September 1966 issue of Road &Track featured this cover article "Ferraris: Oldest & Newest". The article featured the Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa 004C owned by Henry Austin Clark, Jr. from 1965 to 1973. (6 comments)


  • Kleiner’s Korner: A Newspaperman’s Memorable Adventure On and Above the Motor Parkway in the 1920s
    Jan 05 2021

    Kleiner’s Korner: A Newspaperman’s Memorable Adventure On and Above the Motor Parkway in the 1920s

    Sometime around 1920, newspaperman Thornton Fisher of The New York Evening World spent an exhilarating day in the air and on the ground racing on the Motor Parkway. Here is his illustrated account which appeared in the Evening World on March 23, 1921. (6 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #1 Solved: Jim Rathmann and Carroll Shelby at the 1960 Vanderbilt Cup Race
    Jan 04 2021

    Mystery Foto #1 Solved: Jim Rathmann and Carroll Shelby at the 1960 Vanderbilt Cup Race

    Did you identify the first Mystery Foto of 2021? (11 comments)


  • The Top 30 VanderbiltCupRaces Posts of 2020
    Jan 02 2021

    The Top 30 VanderbiltCupRaces Posts of 2020

    To celebrate a much happier and healthier 2021, here is my list of the 30 top posts for 2020! (2 comments)


  • Update From the Pickering Collection: Images of the Vanderbilt Cup Races and Long Island
    Jan 01 2021

    Update From the Pickering Collection: Images of the Vanderbilt Cup Races and Long Island

    Roslyn resident William Pickering (1865-1929) was one of the earliest Long Island photographers documenting many of the people, buildings and events in Nassau County including the Vanderbilt Cup Races. In 2009, Catherine Pickering shared with me these photos and postcards taken by her grandfather. (5 comments)


  • 1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #4: Garden City
    Dec 30 2020

    1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #4: Garden City

    From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented their tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the fourth of this series, these seven photos feature our favorite parkway in Garden City. (31 comments)




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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.

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