Vanderbilt Cup Races
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Oct 31 2010
Archives: Vanderbilt Cup Races- Films, Videos and Slideshows
Links to Films, Videos and Slideshows (Updated: September 26, 2011)
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Oct 23 2010
Highlights from the First Day of the Vanderbilt Race Centennial Celebration
The first day of the Vanderbilt Race Centennial Celebration at the Cradle of Aviation was a big success with the car show, demostration runs and exhibit generating a lot of excitement and smiles:
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Sep 15 2010
Cradle of Aviation to Host Vanderbilt Race Centennial Exhibit in October
In celebration of the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the Cradle of Aviation Museum will host an exhibit featuring rare vintage cars, special memorabilia and artwork from the four major races that ran on the Long Island Motor Parkway from 1908 to 1910.
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Aug 01 2010
Archives: Vanderbilt Cup Races-General
Links to related posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: December 31, 2011):
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Jun 09 2010
Mystery Foto: The Five Drivers in the 1940 Mystery Photo
Congratulations to Michael Ferner of Bitburg, Germany for correctly identifying the drivers in VanderbiltCupRaces.com's first Mystery Photo Contest. Here are the five drivers who posed at an Automobile Oldtimers Club meeting in November 1940.
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Apr 29 2010
Innovations and Significance of the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Bob, let's first tackle the innovations associated with the Vanderbilt Cup Races:
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Mar 26 2010
“The Long Island Motor Parkway” & “Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island” Sell Out
Arcadia Publishing has announced that the initial edition of "The Long Island Motor Parkway" and the second edition of "Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island " have sold out. Supplies of the books should be available by early May. All author royalties from the books are being contributed to CAPS (Child Abuse Prevention Services of Long Island).
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Mar 12 2010
Vanderbilia to be Displayed at Upcoming Museum of the City of New York Exhibition
"Cars, Culture and the City," opening at the Museum of the City of New York on March 25th, will be the first exhibition to "document New York's role in the promotion, marketing, and proliferation of the automobile as well as its transformative effect on the city and, ultimately, the country." The exhibit has been reviewed at core77.com, a design resource website.
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Feb 20 2010
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: 1910 Plans for the Ronkonkoma Motor Speedway
Beginning in November 1906, officials acquired the Motor Parkway right-of way from property owners and farmers from Queens to Riverhead, typically purchasing 1 to 20 acres of land. By far the largest parcel purchased was 891.21 acres in Ronkonkoma from Charles Wright. I always assumed that the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. needed to purchase the entire Wright property to connect to Lake Ronkonkoma. However, research indicates that William K. Vanderbilt Jr. had much larger plans for future…
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Jan 04 2010
The Vanderbilt Cup Races, LIMP and LILCO
Al Velocci and I enjoyed meeting 50 members of the National Grid Retiree Club and presenting “The Vanderbilt Cup Races, the Motor Parkway and LILCO”. Here are several photos and slides from today's presentation:
