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  • Video of the Week: Italian Film “Nuvolari Wins the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Field”
    Dec 06 2013

    Video of the Week: Italian Film “Nuvolari Wins the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Field”

    Cinecittà Luce Institute, an Italian film company, has posted this rare film of Tazio Nuvolari winning the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury. (0 comments)


  • Chaos at the Finish of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
    Dec 05 2013

    Chaos at the Finish of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

    The primary goal of the newly built Long Island Motor Parkway for the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race was to keep crowds under control and off the course. Unfortunately, chaos once again prevailed at the end of a Vanderbilt Cup Race. (1 comments)


  • The Concession Stands of the Vanderbilt Cup Races
    Dec 03 2013

    The Concession Stands of the Vanderbilt Cup Races

    Chris Heisig: "What kinds of concessions were available at the Vanderbilt Cup Races?" (1 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #44 Solved: The #7 Alco Shaft Drive 6- Cylinder Racer in Elgin, Illinois
    Dec 02 2013

    Mystery Foto #44 Solved: The #7 Alco Shaft Drive 6- Cylinder Racer in Elgin, Illinois

    Last week's Mystery Foto featured a shaft driven Alco racer. (5 comments)


  • Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #41: The Bloomingdale Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
    Nov 30 2013

    Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #41: The Bloomingdale Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains

    The 41st bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the highway bridge built for the extension of Bloomingdale Road in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). (7 comments)


  • Video of the Week: The First Self-Propelled Vehicle: The 1769 Fardier du Cugnot
    Nov 29 2013

    Video of the Week: The First Self-Propelled Vehicle: The 1769 Fardier du Cugnot

    Seven years before the American Revolution in 1769, Nicholas Joseph Cugnot assembled the first self-propelled vehicle for the French military- the Fardier du Cugnot (Cugnot's flatbed truck). (6 comments)


  • The Garden City Hotel- Headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission
    Nov 27 2013

    The Garden City Hotel- Headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission

    The Garden City Hotel, the largest and most exclusive hotel on Long Island, served as the headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission from 1904 to 1910. (3 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #43 Solved: Szisz in the #10 Renault Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
    Nov 26 2013

    Mystery Foto #43 Solved: Szisz in the #10 Renault Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

    Mystery Foto expert Greg Oriero submitted this week's Foto. (3 comments)


  • Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #40: Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains
    Nov 23 2013

    Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #40: Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains

    The 40th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). (3 comments)


  • Video of the Week: The Only Surviving Adams-Farwell Automobile
    Nov 22 2013

    Video of the Week: The Only Surviving Adams-Farwell Automobile

    At the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, spectators were treated to seeing the only surviving Adams-Farwell automobile. (1 comments)




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