Vanderbilt Cup Races

Feb 06 2012
Newsday: Museum’s 1937 Chrysler sold for $275,000

Newsday reporter Paul Iarrocco reports on the selling of a "one-of-a-kind 1937 Imperial Town Car": (0 comments)

Feb 04 2012
Race Profile: 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race

A summary of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race- an attempt to revive racing on Long Island. (0 comments)

Feb 02 2012
Three Vanderbilt Cup Race Winners Together in 1936

David Greenlees' Oldmotor.com website has posted this photo taken prior to the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race. I believe it may be the only image of three Vanderbilt Cup Race winners together. (2 comments)

Feb 02 2012
Newsday April 5, 1998 Article “History Takes the High Road”

Although the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society was organized just last year, efforts to preserve the parkway have been ongoing for decades- most noteworthy by the Long Island Motor Parkway Panel. As forwarded by Bob and Colleen Albertson, Newsday reporter Sylvia Adcock in April 1998 documented in this article "History Takes theHigh Road: Preservationists attempting to save parts of the nation's first road for cars": (0 comments)

Feb 01 2012
Highlights and Archives for VanderbiltCupRaces.com- January 2012

2012 got off to a roaring start for VanderbiltCupRaces.com. A total of 6,630 unique visitors (an average of 214 visitors per day) viewed the website in January 2012, a 35% increase over January 2011. This represented the second highest monthly viewership in the history of VanderbiltCupRaces.com . Thanks for stopping by! (0 comments)

Jan 31 2012
Then & Now: Krug’s Corner in Mineola

Krug's Hotel, on the north-west corner of Jericho Turnpike and Willis Avenue in Mineola, was a favorite viewing site for the 1904, 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races. This Then & Now look found a rarity- A building on the Vanderbilt Cup Race course that is still standing! (5 comments)

Jan 30 2012
Willy T. Ribbs and Wendell Scott- Pioneer African American Drivers

Noel Gish (President of the Board of Trustees of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum): "Howard, has an African-American ever competed or placed in a Indy race? Did an African-American compete in the Vanderbilt races?" (0 comments)

Jan 28 2012
George Robertson’s Last Practice Run

After skipping the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the 1908 winner George Robertson was preparing for a triumphant return in the 1910 Race driving a Benz. His hopes for a repeat win and his future racing career were dashed with one of the strangest accidents in Vanderbilt Cup Race history. (5 comments)

Jan 27 2012
Long Island Automotive News and Recent Comments-Saturday, January 28, 2012

Latest Long Island automotive news and recent comments on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (typically posted on Saturdays): (2 comments)

Jan 26 2012
The 1909 Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes Won by Ray Harroun in a Marmon

During the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, two other sweepstakes races (the Massapequa Sweepstakes and the Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes ) were run simultaneously for commercially available stock cars. The Wheatley Sweepstakes had only four entrants for the "sub-class 3" stock cars with engines 231 to 300 cubic inches. The winner received a prize of $1,000. (1 comments)