Vanderbilt Cup Races - Blog

Jun 22 2022
Holman Moody Challenger III and The Mustang III Concept Show Car to be featured at this Sunday’s Gold Coast Cruisers Waterfront Car Show in Glen Cove

Two unique automobiles from the 1964-1965 Ford Custom Car Caravan will be displayed together again this Sunday. (3 comments)

Jun 21 2022
Film: Vincenzo Lancia and the Lancia Lambda

Giovanni De Virgilio of Italy created a documentary "Vincenzo Lancia and the Birth of Modern Motoring". Here is a preview of a clip focusing on the Lancia Lambda. (0 comments)

Jun 20 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: A 1949 Fairchild Aerial Survey over Levittown

Did you solve last weekend's Mystery Foto? (15 comments)

Jun 18 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Nassau County Surveys of Motor Parkway Property Transferred or Released (Mineola)

Nassau County land transactions near the Motor Parkway in Mineola. (1 comments)

Jun 15 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age Part 3

A new series of posts examining the first automotive publication, The Horseless Age (2 comments)

Jun 13 2022
Update: Sad news- The loss of a hero- Dr. Fred Simeone

As reported on the Simeone Automobile Museum website, the legendary Dr. Fred Simeone has died at the age of 86 last Saturday. We all have lost a great friend and true gentleman. (5 comments)

Jun 11 2022
1937 Chrysler’s Chrysler included in Matthew Kilkenny’s new book “Detroit Steel Artists”

Chrysler's Chrysler is one of the classic automobiles included in "Detroit Steel Artists- How Edsel Ford, Ray Dietrich, Tom Hibbard, and Ralph Roberts Turned Motor City into a Styling Mecca Before Harley Earl." (1 comments)

Jun 08 2022
Highlights from the Old Westbury Gardens Car Show

The 1962 Holman-Moody Challenger III and 1963 Mustang III Concept Show Car were crowd-pleasers at the beautiful Old Westbury Gardens Car Show. (8 comments)

Jun 07 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Preparing the Horse for the Automobile (Part 2)

As the automobile grew in popularity in the early 1900s, the problem arose of how could a horse and the auto safely coexist. Numerous articles described methods to harness (no pun intended) the danger that posed both animal and machine (and humans too). (5 comments)

Jun 06 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: A 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR W196S on top of the Mercedes-Benz “Blue Wonder” hauler

The Walter McCarthy Archives challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery autos. The photo was originally in the collection of Henry Austin Clark, Jr. (16 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.