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  • Tucker 1044 Featured at the Huge Great Neck AutoFest and Street Festival
    Oct 17 2017

    Tucker 1044 Featured at the Huge Great Neck AutoFest and Street Festival

    The Tucker 1044 and a 1933 Auburn Boattail Speedster were the two featured automobiles at last Sunday's Great Neck Plaza AutoFest and Street Festival. As described in today's Great Neck News, the display of vintage automobiles and the festival drew thousands. A great time was had by all! (1 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #41 Solved: An Aerial of Glen Oaks and Lake Success Taken in 1929
    Oct 16 2017

    Mystery Foto #41 Solved: An Aerial of Glen Oaks and Lake Success Taken in 1929

    This weekend's Mystery Foto was associated with the William K. Vanderbilt Jr., the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races. (23 comments)


  • Ads From the Long Island Automobile Club 1902 Offical Program “One-Hundred Mile Endurance Test”
    Oct 14 2017

    Ads From the Long Island Automobile Club 1902 Offical Program “One-Hundred Mile Endurance Test”

    On April 26, 1902, the Brooklyn-based Long Island Automobile Club ran the second "One-Hundred Mile Endurance Test on Long Island." I recently purchased the official program for this event which was part of a scrapbook owned by W. Wallace Grant, the president of the club. (5 comments)


  • Three Friends Hanging Out at the Motor Parkway Entrance on Springfield Boulevard, Queens in 1931
    Oct 12 2017

    Three Friends Hanging Out at the Motor Parkway Entrance on Springfield Boulevard, Queens in 1931

    Bill Schwartzberg has forwarded more original photos from an old family album. Three friends are having fun at the Rocky Hill Road entrance to the Motor Parkway (Springfield Avenue, Queens) on April 10, 1931. (4 comments)


  • Chrysler’s Chrysler a Hit at the 2017 Hershey AACA Meet
    Oct 10 2017

    Chrysler’s Chrysler a Hit at the 2017 Hershey AACA Meet

    The 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car attracted large crowds last Saturday at the 2017 Hershey AACA Meet. (4 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Willys-Overland Whippet in Front of Rockville Centre’s Carnegie Library
    Oct 09 2017

    Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Willys-Overland Whippet in Front of Rockville Centre’s Carnegie Library

    Alene Scoblete, librarian and archivist for the Rockville Centre Public Library, challenges you again to solve a Mystery Foto. (9 comments)


  • Tucker 1044 Participates at the Unveiling of the Tucker Torpedo Concept Car at the AACA Museum
    Oct 07 2017

    Tucker 1044 Participates at the Unveiling of the Tucker Torpedo Concept Car at the AACA Museum

    The Tucker '48 #1044 team was honored to participate at the unveiling of the Tucker Torpedo Concept Car last Wednesday at the ACCA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (4 comments)


  • The Tucker Torpedo Revealed at the AACA Museum in Hershey
    Oct 05 2017

    The Tucker Torpedo Revealed at the AACA Museum in Hershey

    The still under-construction Tucker Torpedo was revealed on Wednesday at the "Night at the Museum gala at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The concept car for the Tucker '48 automobiles is being built by Rob and Bob Ida and Sean Tucker, great-grandson of Preston Tucker. (1 comments)


  • The Day Vanderbilt  and Moses Announced the Long Island Motor Parkway Was Closing
    Oct 03 2017

    The Day Vanderbilt and Moses Announced the Long Island Motor Parkway Was Closing

    Although the Long Island Motor Parkway officially closed in 1938, the fate of our favorite road was announced on June 17, 1937 following a Babylon meeting of representatives from New York City Park Department, NY State Department of Public Works, Nassau and Suffolk Counties and Robert Moses. (10 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout Owned by Sam Greco
    Oct 02 2017

    Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout Owned by Sam Greco

    As a follow-up to Sunday's post on the 1897 Grant, last weekend's Mystery Foto featured an automobile which is one of the oldest vehicles currently owned by a Long Islander. (11 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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