Vanderbilt Cup Races

I was at that fair and recall it well. It just reinforced my interest in car with running boards. I remember Austin Clark in his Stutz (as mentioned) he was always very cordial to everyone and right after that my parents took me to see his auto museum in Southampton. A dozen years after this event I would become Austin’s librarian for his collection of paper, and photographs on vehicles at his home in Glen Cove. This included 47 four drawer steel filing cases of glass plate negatives that were the Mack Truck archives. Mack started in Brooklyn, when they moved to Allentown in 1953 the glass plate negatives of their trucks were to be destroyed - Austin saved them - paid help to get them transported from Brooklyn to Glen Cove! As librarian handling the negatives was an effort as the edges of the glass plates were sharp. Decades later in the late 1970s Mack requested to have their archives - that they didn’t save - and Austin returned them to them. All done with the help of my friend John Montville who wrote the history of the Mack company in a book and also an additional one named “Bulldog”.
Oh the stories I could tell…....

From InstaGRAM Report: Rare Home Film of Antique Automobile Racing at the 1960 Long Island Fair

I lived on 117th St.in So.Ozone Park,Queens.My next door neighbor was Cheap Mike Auto,who raced 258 and 259 at Freeport,with Al DeAngelo and Ronnie Herrar.I was good friends with his son,Mike Jr.,went to Freeport every Fri./Sat in the mid fifties.I also remember Les Lee #1 and Georgie Cousin #3

From Mystery Friday Foto #27 Solved: Freeport Racetrack/Stadium

How very interesting!  Thank You! Ann

From InstaGRAM Report: Rare Home Film of Antique Automobile Racing at the 1960 Long Island Fair

Good article comparing the Lucid Car company of today, with the Tucker Corporation of 1948.
The author needed that ride in Howard’s Tucker to finish his research before writing his article.Im sure he will never forget his ride in #1044.

From Hemmings.com: Before Lucid’s Four-Door Dream, There Were Tuckers

Lee, thanks great catch!  I should have known my spelling error- I was raised only three miles from Mitchel Field in East Meadow and remember the airplanes flying over my home.

Enjoy,

Howard Kroplick

From Update: Mystery Friday Foto #36 Solved: A Kelly-Springfield Truck at Mitchel Field

‘Mitchell Field’ is in Milwaukee.  It is NOT the same as ‘Mitchel Field’ on LI!

https://www.mitchellairport.com/airport-information/history#General-Mitchell

From Update: Mystery Friday Foto #36 Solved: A Kelly-Springfield Truck at Mitchel Field

I remember Roosevelt Raceway and the Long Island Fair, but I don’t remember auto races or horse diving. As young boys, I and my brothers would call the orange tower the “henhouse” after an episode of the “Deputy Dawg” cartoon.

The 1960 Lincoln Continental was an all-new and timeless design, and quite a change from the over-styled 1959 models.

Fun video. I love the surf music! Is it The Ventures?

From InstaGRAM Report: Rare Home Film of Antique Automobile Racing at the 1960 Long Island Fair

Wow! This was fun. Our family saw one of those diving horses on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City during this same era. A friend of the family was very involved with Native American exhibitions like the one shown here. It was fun to see all those brass era autos running at speed. Sure would have loved to see that in person.

From InstaGRAM Report: Rare Home Film of Antique Automobile Racing at the 1960 Long Island Fair

Al, good job!

Arthur, thanks for the clarification.

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

Al Prete is correct
The portico was enclosed as a studio for my parents when they wed in 1953
The video was filmed in 1961

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

The vehicle is a Kelly Springfield Truck ca 1918.  At Mitchel Field ?  If so, why the license plate ?  Driver appears to be a civilian.

From Update: Mystery Friday Foto #36 Solved: A Kelly-Springfield Truck at Mitchel Field

Another great contibution to the site

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

I agree with Al Prete the car looks like a 58 Chevy Writing on the back of an old photo a 58 could easily look like a 53 JeRita

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

That’s a FWD Model “B” built by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company. The date is around 1918 and the photo was probably taken at Camp Mills in Garden City. The truck appears to be a civilian vehicle with regular license plates and no military markings yet is being driven by uniformed soldiers at a military base.

From Update: Mystery Friday Foto #36 Solved: A Kelly-Springfield Truck at Mitchel Field

Very cool about the deed
Never saw one, Strength always nice to see something new

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

I watched the short Zinzi family video several times, and I’m convinced that it could not be from 1953. The car looks like a 1958 General Motors product, probably a Chevy.

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

The truck appears to be a 1914- 23 Kelly-Springfield.
The company supplied transport vehicles to the Canadian and French armies, and Liberty trucks, which did not resemble the Kelly-Springfield for the U.S. military.

From Update: Mystery Friday Foto #36 Solved: A Kelly-Springfield Truck at Mitchel Field

Al, thanks for clarifying the purchase price of the Lodge in 1938.

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

Howard, Great post on the Zinzi’s and the Massapequa Lodge, thoroughly enjoyable and very informative.

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film

Gary, thanks for the feedback. The post has been updated and corrected.
Enjoy,
Howard

From Update #2: Documenting the Zinzi home in the Massapequa Lodge: Deed and rare film