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  • Highlights from the Cradle of Aviation Classic Car Show
    Oct 09 2013

    Highlights from the Cradle of Aviation Classic Car Show

    A little drizzle did not deter the Long Island Region of the Classic Car Club of America from putting on another great show at the Cradle of Aviation last Sunday. (1 comments)


  • FiOS1 Video “The Alco Black Beast at the 2013 Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Festival”
    Oct 08 2013

    FiOS1 Video “The Alco Black Beast at the 2013 Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Festival”

    This four -minute news clip on the Alco Black Beast was created by videojournalist Louis Dane for FiOS1 Long Island. (0 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #36 Solved:  Joe Seymour Driving the #8 Thomas During the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
    Oct 07 2013

    Mystery Foto #36 Solved:  Joe Seymour Driving the #8 Thomas During the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

    This week's Mystery Foto was a previously unpublished image from the Vanderbilt Cup Races. (8 comments)


  • 1947 Brochure “Horseless Carriages: Collection of Leo Peters
    Oct 05 2013

    1947 Brochure “Horseless Carriages: Collection of Leo Peters

    Floral Park Historian and automotive historian Walter Gosden has provided a 1947 brochure highlighting the car collection of Leo Peters of New Hyde Park. (2 comments)


  • 1920s Promotional Film “Oilfield Dodge”
    Oct 02 2013

    1920s Promotional Film “Oilfield Dodge”

    Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer has forwarded this three-minute film showing a Dodge car navigating the "roads" to an oilfield in the 1920s. (7 comments)


  • VanderbiltCupRaces.com Highlights and Blog Archives for September 2013: Record Viewership!
    Oct 01 2013

    VanderbiltCupRaces.com Highlights and Blog Archives for September 2013: Record Viewership!

    Highlights and a summary of the posts placed on VanderbiltCupRaces.com during September 2013. (0 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #35 Solved:Williston Park/East Williston/Albertson Section of the Motor Parkway in 1938
    Sep 30 2013

    Mystery Foto #35 Solved:Williston Park/East Williston/Albertson Section of the Motor Parkway in 1938

    Master Mystery Foto detective Greg Oreiro has submitted this Mystery Foto aerial of a section of the Long Island Motor Parkway. (8 comments)


  • Then & Now: The Garden City Hotel
    Sep 28 2013

    Then & Now: The Garden City Hotel

    Since 1901 the largest and grandest hotel on Long Island was the Garden City Hotel... a perfect choice for a VanderbiltCupRaces.com "Then & Now". (3 comments)


  • An Evening With Marty Himes- Stock Car Driver, Museum Owner and Auto Racing Historian
    Sep 25 2013

    An Evening With Marty Himes- Stock Car Driver, Museum Owner and Auto Racing Historian

    At the Thursday, October 17, 2013 meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, stock car driver, museum owner and auto racing historian Marty Himes rode back in time and told stories of racing at Freeport, Deer Park, and Islip. (5 comments)


  • Smiles and Thumbs Up from the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society  Fall Country Fair
    Sep 24 2013

    Smiles and Thumbs Up from the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Country Fair

    The Black Beast generated many smiles and thumbs ups at the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Country Fair last Saturday in Port Washington. (4 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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