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  • Three Car Shows on Long Island This Sunday & Last Week’s LIM Program
    Aug 07 2015

    Three Car Shows on Long Island This Sunday & Last Week’s LIM Program

    Three car shows will be held on Long Island this Sunday. (7 comments)


  • Request For Information from France: 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race Winner Victor Hemery
    Aug 05 2015

    Request For Information from France: 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race Winner Victor Hemery

    Vincent Lucas of Sillé le Guillaume, France has sent this research request to me. (3 comments)


  • More Photos of the Long Island Aviation Country Club by Alfred Eisenstaedt
    Aug 05 2015

    More Photos of the Long Island Aviation Country Club by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    As a follow-up to last weekend's Mystery Foto, here are additional photos of the Long Island Aviation Club and its members taken by the renown Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. (1 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937
    Aug 03 2015

    Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

    Last weekend's Mystery Foto featured an airfield which was located near the Long Island Motor Parkway. (16 comments)


  • Custom Craft, April 1965: “Build a One-Of-A-Kind Fabulous Mustang Fastback”
    Aug 01 2015

    Custom Craft, April 1965: “Build a One-Of-A-Kind Fabulous Mustang Fastback”

    Automotive writer Alex Walordy reported on the building of the Mustang III for the cover story in the April 1965 issue of Custom Craft magazine. (0 comments)


  • See Chrysler’s Chrysler on Display in Stony Brook This Sunday & Three Car Shows
    Jul 31 2015

    See Chrysler’s Chrysler on Display in Stony Brook This Sunday & Three Car Shows

    Chrysler's Chrysler will be on display at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook this Sunday beginning at 1:30 pm prior to a presentation "Chrysler's Chrysler: History, Discovery & Restoration." Three car shows will be held on Long Island this Sunday. (1 comments)


  • Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” III: Searingtown
    Jul 29 2015

    Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” III: Searingtown

    On April 4, 2015, Dave Russo and his 10-year old son Sam experienced a one-day 38-mile bike tour on the Long Island Motor Parkway. In the third post of this new series, Sammy and Dave continue to explore Searingtown from Shelter Rock Road to I.U. Willets Road. (6 comments)


  • Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and the Motor Parkway: “one for the road” (Circa 1985)
    Jul 28 2015

    Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and the Motor Parkway: “one for the road” (Circa 1985)

    Through the 1980s, Henry Austin Clark, Jr. had a regular column Nuts and Bolts in Old Cars Weekly. Around 1985, he wrote this article "one for the road" on the Long Island Motor Parkway. (4 comments)


  • Mystery Foto#30 Solved:The First Road Test of  Long Island Motor Vehicle Company’s “Montauk” in 1901
    Jul 27 2015

    Mystery Foto#30 Solved:The First Road Test of Long Island Motor Vehicle Company’s “Montauk” in 1901

    Alene Scoblete, a librarian and archivist for the Rockville Centre Public Library, needed help in solving this weekend's Mystery Foto. (11 comments)


  • Newsday: ‘Mrs. Chrysler’s Chrysler,’ 1937 unique car at LI Museum
    Jul 24 2015

    Newsday: ‘Mrs. Chrysler’s Chrysler,’ 1937 unique car at LI Museum

    Reporter Peter King writes about the upcoming August 2nd presentation at the Long Island Museum in Sunday's Newsday. (2 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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