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  • Motor Parkway Trails #2: Lake Success
    Jul 29 2014

    Motor Parkway Trails #2: Lake Success

    The second of the Motor Parkway Trail series for "exploring, biking and hiking" documents a 0.6 mile of the road in Lake Success with remnants of the pavement, the Great Neck lodge and two bridges. (4 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #78 Solved: Paul Newman & Mario Andretti at the 1967 Can-Am Bridgehampton Race
    Jul 29 2014

    Mystery Foto #78 Solved: Paul Newman & Mario Andretti at the 1967 Can-Am Bridgehampton Race

    Guy Frost forwarded this week's fun Mystery Friday Foto. (15 comments)


  • Treasures Uncovered as Construction Begins at Levittown’s Historic Grandstand Location
    Jul 26 2014

    Treasures Uncovered as Construction Begins at Levittown’s Historic Grandstand Location

    In a special Kleiner's Korner report, Levittown resident and Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society member Art Kleiner documents that construction has begun unveiling new Motor Parkway artifacts. (4 comments)


  • Petersen Museum Exhibit: Town Cars Arriving in Style- The 1897 Benz &  the 1915 Pierce-Arrow
    Jul 23 2014

    Petersen Museum Exhibit: Town Cars Arriving in Style- The 1897 Benz &  the 1915 Pierce-Arrow

    The Petersen Museum of Los Angeles currently has a wonderful town car exhibit of 11 cars ranging from a 1897 Benz to a one-of-a kind postwar design. The exhibit will continue through February 2015. (0 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #77 Solved: The Motor Parkway Garage in Floral Park
    Jul 21 2014

    Mystery Foto #77 Solved: The Motor Parkway Garage in Floral Park

    Gary Hammond forwarded this week's really challenging Mystery Foto. The photo was part of an ad placed in George W. Richardson's 1911 publication "Central Long Island and Its Attractions." (13 comments)


  • TheMusicZoo.com: Cars & Guitars: Beauty And The Beast
    Jul 19 2014

    TheMusicZoo.com: Cars & Guitars: Beauty And The Beast

    TheMusicZoo.com has posted this wonderful article by Mike Bieber and photographer Walter Bryant on the meeting of the Black Beauty and the Black Beast. (1 comments)


  • Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle XII: Countdown to Pebble Beach-One Month
    Jul 16 2014

    Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle XII: Countdown to Pebble Beach-One Month

    For the last 17 months, automotive historian Walt Gosden has been documenting the restoration of the 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car built for Walter P. Chrysler and his wife Della. (12 comments)


  • More Insight into the Bird Cars, the Farnesworth Garage and the 1962 “Car Auction of the Century”
    Jul 15 2014

    More Insight into the Bird Cars, the Farnesworth Garage and the 1962 “Car Auction of the Century”

    VanderbiltCupRaces.com viewers continue to share stories and information on the unique car collection of Wallis Bird, his Farnesworth garage and the 1962 "Car Auction of the Century". (3 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #76 Solved: An Aerial of Meadowbrook Hospital and East Meadow Circa 1951/1952
    Jul 14 2014

    Mystery Foto #76 Solved: An Aerial of Meadowbrook Hospital and East Meadow Circa 1951/1952

    This week's Mystery Foto was a vintage aerial of Long Island landmarks. (20 comments)


  • The Black Beauty Meets The Black Beast in Roslyn
    Jul 13 2014

    The Black Beauty Meets The Black Beast in Roslyn

    Last week, the Black Beast teamed up with a special Gibson Les Paul "Black Beauty", one of the guitars used by the Pretenders' James Honeyman-Scott. (5 comments)




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