1908 Motor Parkway Sweepstakes
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Oct 28 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #53 Solved: A Stretch of the Motor Parkway in Bethpage
Did you identify this stretch of the Motor Parkway in Bethpage (then known as Central Park)?
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Sep 30 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #49 Solved: Traveling Along the Bucolic Motor Parkway in Bethpage
VanderbiltCupRaces.com reader Thomas Dziurka challenged you to identify this photo taken in Bethpage
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May 25 2024
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Never before published photos of the 1908 Motor Parkway Sweepstakes and 1909 Long Island Derby
Ann Marie and Mark Adamick have uncovered some never-before published photos of the 1908 Motor Parkway Sweepstakes and the 1909 Long Island Stock Car Derby.
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Apr 09 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #14 Solved: #1 Locomobile Vanderbilt Cup Race Driver Jim Florida
Did you identify Vanderbilt Cup Race driver Jim Florida?
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Mar 23 2024
The Irish Volunteers at the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Author and Mitchel Field historian Paul R. Martin III's wonderful excerpt from his book 'Beneath the Shadows of Wings' about the Irish Volunteers and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
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Oct 10 2023
The 115th Anniversary of the Opening of the Long Island Motor Parkway and the 1908 Motor Parkway Sweepstakes
Today we celebrated the 115th anniversary of our favorite racetrack and parkway.
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Oct 09 2023
Mystery Foto #40 Solved: The G21 Stoddard-Dayton during the Garden City Sweepstakes at the Bethpage Curve
Did you identify this racer on the course?
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Jul 26 2023
From the Helck Family Collection: Unpublished Photos from the 1908 Sweepstakes Races
Never before seen photos from the 1908 Sweepstakes Races
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Jul 22 2023
Kleiner’s Korner: An Enterprising Church on the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course
The Methodist Episcopal Church in Woodbury took advantage of its location on the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race course to raise money.
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Jul 17 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: The G-22 Chalmers-Detroit descending the Ellison Road Bridge in Westbury
Did you identify this racer on the Vanderbilt Cup Race course?
