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  • Favorite Website: Motorsnaps.com
    Feb 22 2011

    Favorite Website: Motorsnaps.com

    This new favorite website Motorsnaps.com provides thousands of images of historic, vintage, classic and soon to be classic cars. Sample the website by viewing the information and photos of the four manufacturers that won the Vanderbilt Cup Races on Long Island: (2 comments)


  • Film “A Tribute to Bernd Rosemeyer- Winner of the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race”
    Feb 21 2011

    Film “A Tribute to Bernd Rosemeyer- Winner of the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race”

    Girlracer.com of the United Kingdom has posted an article "Blast from the Past … Bernd Rosemeyer" including this touching two-minute tribute: (1 comments)


  • Archives: Alco Trucks
    Feb 21 2011

    Archives: Alco Trucks

    Links to related posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com concerning Alco trucks: (2 comments)


  • Archives: Favorite Website: Vanderbilt Cup Races
    Feb 21 2011

    Archives: Favorite Website: Vanderbilt Cup Races

    Links to favorite websites related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races: (0 comments)


  • Archives: Favorite Websites: Long Island Motor Parkway
    Feb 21 2011

    Archives: Favorite Websites: Long Island Motor Parkway

    Links to favorite websites related to the Long Island Motor Parkway: (0 comments)


  • Scorecard Vanderbilia #1: The 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
    Feb 19 2011

    Scorecard Vanderbilia #1: The 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

    A common piece of Vanderbilia for all six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island were scorecards providing information on the entrants. The scorecards usually included ads related to lodging, transportation and real estate: (0 comments)


  • A Series of Vanderbilt Cup Race Exaggerations by Malcolm Strauss
    Feb 18 2011

    A Series of Vanderbilt Cup Race Exaggerations by Malcolm Strauss

    In 1904 and 1905 Automobile Topics magazine hired cartoonist Malcolm A. Strauss to create five "exaggerations of men who manage motors" for their issues featuring the Vanderbilt Cup Races: Jr.: (0 comments)


  • Mystery French Driver of an American Thomas Racer: Gustave Caillois
    Feb 17 2011

    Mystery French Driver of an American Thomas Racer: Gustave Caillois

    Last Sunday at the Smithtown Automobile Flea Market, Arthur Gould challenged me to identify this photo of a driver and his mechanician. His hint: the driver was French and drove a Thomas in a Vanderbilt Cup Race event. Arthur, here's your answer: (2 comments)


  • First Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society
    Feb 16 2011

    First Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society

    An outgrowth of the long-standing Long Island Motor Parkway Panel, a group dedicated to the preservation of the Long Island Motor Parkway was established last night at the Bonwit Inn on the Motor Parkway in Commack. Ten people had a wonderful time sharing stories about our favorite historic road and planning future restoration and preservation projects. (18 comments)


  • Help Restore the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Motor Parkway Bridge
    Feb 15 2011

    Help Restore the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Motor Parkway Bridge

    Only two Motor Parkway bridges remain standing in Nassau County- in Manhasset Hills and Old Bethpage. Here is background on the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Motor Parkway Bridge and your opportunity to help restore it... tonight! (4 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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