1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
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Jan 07 2012
Walter McCarthy Collection: Old 16 at the 1988 Vanderbilt Cup Race Celebration
VanderbiltCupRaces.com contributor Walter McCarthy has been restoring, collecting and showing vintage automobiles and trucks on Long Island for over 50 years. During this period , Walter has recorded hundreds of vintage car events via photos, slides and films. He has agreed to share these treasures on this website throughout 2012. First in the series is the 80th celebration of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race that started at the Maine Maid Inn in Jericho and ended in a car show at the Grumman plant…
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Dec 30 2011
Archives: Old 16 Locomobile
Below are related links to Old 16 Locomobile on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: February 1, 2012):
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Dec 19 2011
Article “The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race” by Peter Helck
For the 1948 Veteran Motor Club of America Antique Auto Show, prominent artist Peter Helck, then owner of "Old 16", wrote an article on the Vanderbilt Cup Races for the official program. Supplemented by photos from the book "Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island", this is Helck's colorful description of the 1908 race:
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Dec 16 2011
A Family Inquiry: Jefferson De Mont Thompson- Chairman of the Vanderbilt Cup Commission
John S: "I've been doing some research on my family. Colonel Jefferson Dement (Demont) Thompson, my great-grandfather's nephew, is buried here at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama. I'm sure he's the same Dement (Demont) that keeps "popping up" in my internet searches. Do you have any information on him?"
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Nov 30 2011
Archives: Starting Lineups
Below are related links to Starting Lineups on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: February 16, 2012):
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Nov 16 2011
Preserving the Maine Maid Inn and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Yesterday I was pleased to speak at the Town of Oyster Bay Town Board Meeting supporting the landmark designation for the historic Maine Maid Inn in Jericho. Highlights of the meeting were published in FarmingdalePatch and Newsday:
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Oct 22 2011
From the Noel Gish Collection: Postcards of the Vanderbilt Cup Races & Long Island Motor Parkway
Noel Gish has a collection of Long Island postcards which he used to help teach Long Island history to his classes at Hauppauge High School. Noel, now President of the Board of Trustees of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, has forwarded some of his favorite Vanderbilt Cup Races and Long Island Motor Parkway postcards:
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Oct 18 2011
Profile: Lewis Strang- Driver of the 1908 Renault Racer
Lewis Strang’s life is an old-fashioned story of earning the American dream. Educated in private schools, he was a direct descendent of Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam, best known for urging his troops at Bunker Hill, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
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Oct 10 2011
CSI Challenge: Identifying A Vanderbilt Cup Race Photo of the #18 Mercedes in 1908
One of my favorite vendors at the Hershey Meet is Paul Osika and his collection of vintage automobile race photos. Paul asked for assistance to identify the year, car and location of this photo taken during an unknown Vanderbilt Cup Race. Time to bring out the VanderbiltCupRaces.com CSI (Cup Scene Investigation) Team.
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Aug 13 2011
Collectorsweekly.com Show & Tell: The Locomobile Vanderbilt Cup Race Poster
Last week Mark L. posted this request for information on Collectorsweekly.com Show & Tell and VanderbiltCupRaces.com .
