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Oct 04 2009
LI News Tonight Film “Vanderbilt Cup Racer at the Vanderbilt Museum”
LI News Tonight's Chris Collora reported on a recent visit of the "Black Beast" to the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. This 3-minute newsclip includes: a history of the Alco-6 racer, interviews with Noel Gish, President of the Board of Trustees of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and me, and film segments from the Vanderbilt Cup Races and the 1911 Indy 500 Race. (0 comments)
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Oct 02 2009
Great Neck Plaza Promotes Next Week’s Autofest/Festival
Hats off to Great Neck Plaza for their strong promotion of next Sunday's AutoFest Festival as shown by this banner across Middle Neck Road. (2 comments)
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Oct 01 2009
September 2009 Highlights on VanderbiltCupRaces.com
For the first nine months of 2009, a total of 22,419 viewers have visited VanderbiltCupRaces.com, a 43% increase over 2008. The website retained its #1 ranking among the 624,000 websites that appear for a Google search on "Vanderbilt Cup Races" and a #1 ranking among 936,000 websites that appear on a similar Bing.com search. (0 comments)
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Sep 30 2009
Film: “Willie K’s Eagle Nest Mansion"and a Request for Feedback
As part of the LI News Tonight series on Long Island Gold Coast mansions, Chris Collora produced this 3-minute tour of Wiliam K. Vanderbilt, Jr's Eagle Nest mansion located in Centerport. Stephanie Gress, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the museum, provides a wonderful comentary on the manison. Watch for Willie K. and his wife Rosamund also make an appearance on their yacht "Alva". (8 comments)
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Sep 29 2009
The Bridgehampton Race Circuit…Today
Andrew Hartwell has provided this photo of the Chevron Bridge at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit taken just three days ago. Check out Andrew's tribute website to this historic Long Island race track. (6 comments)
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Sep 28 2009
More on the Long Island Automotive Museum
Last Friday's post on the Long Island Automotive Museum generated many memories and more questions. Here are some answers and additional photos: (30 comments)
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Sep 26 2009
Chicken à la King, Foxhall Keene and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
The hometown favorite of the 1905 and 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Races was millionaire sportsman and Wall Street broker Foxhall Keene. Although proficient in auto racing, polo, equestrian riding, football and shooting, it was a food dish where Keene made his name. But first, let's discuss Keene's Vanderbilt Cup racing career. (0 comments)
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Sep 25 2009
Roslyn News “Classic Autos Still Have Plenty of Firepower”
The September 10th issue of the Roslyn News reported on the Sixth Annual Vanderbilt Cup Centennial Celebration held at the Nassau County Museum of Art on Sunday, August 30th. Reporter Joe Scotchie noted; "Large crowd turned out to view Vanderbilt Cup Racer...It was another well-attended event as the organizers look forward to more succesful celebrations in the future." (0 comments)
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Sep 25 2009
Film “The Long Island Automotive Museum”
The place to go to view vintage automobiles, race cars and trucks in the New York area soon after World War II was Henry Austin Clark Jr.'s Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton. This amazing 5-minute film documents the opening of the museum on August 27, 1948 and a typical day at the museum in the early 1950s. The film was provided from the archives of the Long Island Old Car Club by Walter McCarthy and is being shown to the public for the very first time on VanderbiltCupRaces.com . (17 comments)
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Sep 24 2009
New Booklet “Historic Road Racing in Milwaukee”
John B.Haydon has just written a 32-page booklet on the road races on his hometown entitled "Historic Road Racing in Milwaukee: The 1912 Vanderbilt Cup, Grand Prizer and Related Road Races". This excellent summary includes several photos and memorabilia from my collection including the pennant on the above cover. (1 comments)
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