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  • PaddockTalk.com: A New Design For The 1937 Season: The Mercedes-Benz W 125 Grand Prix Car
    Mar 17 2012

    PaddockTalk.com: A New Design For The 1937 Season: The Mercedes-Benz W 125 Grand Prix Car

    PaddockTalk.com has posted this profile of the Mercedes W 125 Grand Prix racers which ran in the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (1 comments)


  • Seen in the Amelia Island Concours Parking Lot: Fatty Arbuckle’s 1923 McFarlan
    Mar 16 2012

    Seen in the Amelia Island Concours Parking Lot: Fatty Arbuckle’s 1923 McFarlan

    After the end of the very special Amelia Island Concours, I drove the Black Beast back to the trailer parking lot to pack up for home. To my pleasant surprise,a 1923 McFarlan was parked nearby. (1 comments)


  • Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society- Thursday, March 22, 2012
    Mar 15 2012

    Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society- Thursday, March 22, 2012

    The first 2012 meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2012 beginning at 7:30 PM. The meeting will take place at the auditorium at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage. (1 comments)


  • Cars of the Stars  Part II
    Mar 14 2012

    Cars of the Stars Part II

    Robert Richer has forwarded an email of "Nifty Cars and Nifty Owners". Check out Part II of the cars of the stars. (2 comments)


  • Mineola Patch: Local Historian Buys One-of-a-Kind 75 Year Old Chrysler Imperial
    Mar 13 2012

    Mineola Patch: Local Historian Buys One-of-a-Kind 75 Year Old Chrysler Imperial

    Reporter Christopher Collora interviewed Stephanie Gress, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, two classic car experts and me for this Patch article and video: (2 comments)


  • The Black Beast at the Amelia Island 2012 Concours D’Elegance
    Mar 12 2012

    The Black Beast at the Amelia Island 2012 Concours D’Elegance

    It was a great time this weekend at one of the best automotive events in the world- the Amelia Island Concours D' Elegance. Over 20,000 car enthusiasts and 300 spectacular cars participated. (5 comments)


  • More Memorabilia From the Long Island Automotive Museum
    Mar 10 2012

    More Memorabilia From the Long Island Automotive Museum

    More original items from the Long Island Automotive Museum obtained from the recent Philip Weiss Auction. (1 comments)


  • Found: Henry Austin Clark, Jr’s Long Island Automotive Museum Shop Jacket
    Mar 09 2012

    Found: Henry Austin Clark, Jr’s Long Island Automotive Museum Shop Jacket

    While "working" at his Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton, Henry Austin Clark, Jr. would often wear a personalized shop jacket. (1 comments)


  • Rare Images of the Auto Union Practice Runs for the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race
    Mar 08 2012

    Rare Images of the Auto Union Practice Runs for the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race

    Martin Schröder, an automotive historian on Auto Union Grand Prix racing, has forwarded these rare images of the two Auto Union Type-C racers that competed in the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (0 comments)


  • Hemmings Blog:“S.P.O.: the only one, and it still rolls”
    Mar 07 2012

    Hemmings Blog:“S.P.O.: the only one, and it still rolls”

    Jim Donnelly, Hemmings Senior Editor, gave a wonderful shout-out today to VanderbiltCupRaces.com on the Hemmings Blog. (0 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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