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  • VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Vanderbilt Cup Race Scrapbook Discovered in Garden City
    Mar 15 2017

    VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Vanderbilt Cup Race Scrapbook Discovered in Garden City

    The Garden City Archives have discovered a small scrapbook of photos from the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races. The scrapbook was a gift from Dorothy Peters Hubbell, whose family had direct links to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the founding of Garden City. (7 comments)


  • An Insider’s Look into the Petit Trianon Part III: Inside the Building
    Mar 14 2017

    An Insider’s Look into the Petit Trianon Part III: Inside the Building

    Bob DeStefani and his family lived at the Eastern Terminus of the Motor Parkway in Lake Ronkonkoma. In this VanderbiltCupRaces.com series, Bob provides an "insider's look" into the Petit Trianon and Motor Parkway adventures with his friends. Part III provides his memories about the inside of the building. (1 comments)


  • Mystery Snowy Foto #10 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge in Lake Success Circa 1940 Update:3/14/17
    Mar 13 2017

    Mystery Snowy Foto #10 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge in Lake Success Circa 1940 Update:3/14/17

    Reflecting Friday's snow and tomorrow's Long Island blizzard forecast, here was a snowy Mystery Foto of a Motor Parkway lodge. (12 comments)


  • The Dream of the Tucker Torpedo Concept Car Is Becoming A Reality
    Mar 11 2017

    The Dream of the Tucker Torpedo Concept Car Is Becoming A Reality

    The Tucker Torpedo was the original concept car that Preston Tucker used to excite the public with a "real car of the future". Although designer George Lawson provided a series of drawings and a 1:4 plaster scale model in 1946, a full scale-model prototype was never built...until this year. (7 comments)


  • Screen Test Request: Film “Green Light: The Story Behind the Long Island Motor Parkway”
    Mar 08 2017

    Screen Test Request: Film “Green Light: The Story Behind the Long Island Motor Parkway”

    Filmmaker Dean Romano is inviting you to screen test and critique a working draft of his documentary "Green Light: The Long Island Motor Parkway". (23 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #9 Solved: An Aerial Looking East Over Roosevelt Field. Circa 1952
    Mar 06 2017

    Mystery Foto #9 Solved: An Aerial Looking East Over Roosevelt Field. Circa 1952

    The Cradle of Aviation Museum challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto. (17 comments)


  • VanderbiltCupRaces.com: Happy 9th Anniversary!
    Mar 04 2017

    VanderbiltCupRaces.com: Happy 9th Anniversary!

    Today marks the 9th Anniversary since the launch of VanderbiltCupRaces.com on March 4, 2008. (19 comments)


  • The Oldest Porcelain Road Signs in the United States Posted by the Long Island Automobile Club
    Mar 01 2017

    The Oldest Porcelain Road Signs in the United States Posted by the Long Island Automobile Club

    Just months after being founded in October 1900, the Long Island Automobile Club posted 20" x9" porcelain road signs on the major Long Island roads. Each blue and white sign included the club's name and directions to the nearest village(s). (6 comments)


  • Video: Going for a Ride in Tucker 1044
    Feb 28 2017

    Video: Going for a Ride in Tucker 1044

    Dee Oreiro has documented one of the first rides in the Tucker 1044 at its new home in Roslyn, New York. (8 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #8 Solved: Hubert LeBlon & Albert Clement Jr. at the 1906 Weigh-In at Garden City
    Feb 27 2017

    Mystery Foto #8 Solved: Hubert LeBlon & Albert Clement Jr. at the 1906 Weigh-In at Garden City

    This weekend's Mystery Foto documented two Vanderbilt Cup Race drivers preparing for the 1906 race. (7 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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