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  • Mystery Foto #51 Solved: Tracy and Poole Changing A Tire During the 1906 American Elimination Race
    Dec 24 2018

    Mystery Foto #51 Solved: Tracy and Poole Changing A Tire During the 1906 American Elimination Race

    Tim Helck, the grandson of the great artist Peter Helck, challenged you to identify this race Mystery Foto. (10 comments)


  • Skip Groh’s “Last Ride” in Tucker 1044 in 2016
    Dec 22 2018

    Skip Groh’s “Last Ride” in Tucker 1044 in 2016

    Skip Groh of Freeport, Ohio owned Tucker 1044 for 34 years from 1982 to 2016. Skip reportedly drove Tucker 1044 only three times for a total of 15 miles. When Skip sold this historic automobile to Mark Lieberman on April 29, 2016, John Tucker, Jr., Preston Tucker's grandson, captured Skip's "last ride" in Tucker 1044. (0 comments)


  • Update #2: In Search of the Mystery Camp Mills “New York” Road
    Dec 21 2018

    Update #2: In Search of the Mystery Camp Mills “New York” Road

    Lee Chambers, who grew up in Mitchel Field, has been determined to document a mysterious Camp Mills road that ran east to west and disappeared when Mitchel Field was reconfigured in 1927 to 1932. Bill Bellmer's recent aerials and documents have help Lee solve the mystery. (18 comments)


  • Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: The Construction Equipment of the Long Island Motor Parkway
    Dec 18 2018

    Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: The Construction Equipment of the Long Island Motor Parkway

    In the fifth of the photo series from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, the equipment used to build the Motor Parkway is featured. (7 comments)


  • Updated: My Favorite Queens Motor Parkway Images for the New York City Parks Department
    Dec 15 2018

    Updated: My Favorite Queens Motor Parkway Images for the New York City Parks Department

    New York City Parks Department is hoping to develop new historic markers along the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway and has asked for my assistance. Here are a some of my favorite Queens Motor Parkway images. (6 comments)


  • Perfect VanderbiltCupRaces.com Holiday Gifts
    Dec 14 2018

    Perfect VanderbiltCupRaces.com Holiday Gifts

    Become a 2019 member of the Roslyn Landmark Society and for only $25 received a signed copy of one of my Arcadia book(s): Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island, Long Island Motor Parkway or North Hempstead. (0 comments)


  • Profile Series: Tucker 1008- The Maroon Tucker at the Richard E. Driehaus Collection in Chicago
    Dec 14 2018

    Profile Series: Tucker 1008- The Maroon Tucker at the Richard E. Driehaus Collection in Chicago

    In the ninth of the profiles on the 51 Tuckers, the maroon Tucker located in the Richard H. Driehaus Collection at the Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage is featured. (0 comments)


  • Updated: Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: A Motor Parkway Survey Team in Lake Success in 1909
    Dec 12 2018

    Updated: Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: A Motor Parkway Survey Team in Lake Success in 1909

    In the fourth of the photo series from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, Clinton's Motor Parkway survey team in Lake Success (Lakeville) is featured. (15 comments)


  • The Salvation Army Hotel Being Moved Down Clinton Road in Garden City in 1928
    Dec 11 2018

    The Salvation Army Hotel Being Moved Down Clinton Road in Garden City in 1928

    Garden City Village Historian Bill Bellmer has forwarded this 1928 aerial showing the same area as last Friday's Mystery Foto from the viewpoint looking north. (6 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #49 Solved:Hazelhurst Field, Garden City Lodge,Curtiss Engineering & Camp Mills in 1918
    Dec 10 2018

    Mystery Foto #49 Solved:Hazelhurst Field, Garden City Lodge,Curtiss Engineering & Camp Mills in 1918

    Author Richard Panchyk challenged you again to identify another amazing previously unpublished Mystery Foto. (26 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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