Vanderbilt Cup Races

This is great !

From New Series: Sam & Dave's "Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure" I: Queens

Is any car allowed or must it be below a certain year?
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Bob, just returned from Riverhead. Over 100 cars of all years participated. Great time!

From Join the "Sunday Drive " from Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma on the Motor Parkway on April 26, 2015

Wow, Dave. I have a couple of sons a bit older than Sam. We all like bike riding, but what you and your son accomplished is real dedication. It also demonstrates the maturity that your son posesses. Your a great example of…...It’s not a chore if you love the challenge.

From New Series: Sam & Dave's "Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure" I: Queens

Hello everyone. Probably not news to anyone, but it appears that if the lodge stil existed; it would be in the rear parking lot of #555 Broadhollow Rd ( 2 large buildings ). According to Historic Aerials, it looks like the lodge was intact in 1966. But the 2 existing buildings that are present show up in 1980.

From The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: The Elusive #13 & #14 Huntington Lodges in Melville

Paul and Mrs. Sartori, Italian driver for Willie K’s cousin, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt’s Fiat in 1904 (Fiat#10, Mech: E. Cedrons, defective clutch, finished 16/18) and 1905 (Fiat#20, Mech: Letrini, broken crankshaft, finished 7/10) Vanderbilt Cup Races. They’re in front of August Porrier’s hotel and garage on the border of Garden City and Hempstead.

From Mystery Foto #15 Revealed: Emanuel Cedrino & His Wife Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Give a guy a break!  I know the Mineola Lodge when I see it!  Once I read on, all came clear, but you gave me quite a start at the start.  Sam, III

From The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: The Elusive #13 & #14 Huntington Lodges in Melville

If I recall correctly the lady was the driver’s wife and reall6 worked with him - this was well documented on the Blog a while back.  No research for me tonight.  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #15 Revealed: Emanuel Cedrino & His Wife Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Please tell “Sam, I”  how especially (and eponymously) proud I am of him (and his dad)!  Sam, III

From New Series: Sam & Dave's "Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure" I: Queens

Just in case I’m right on this,I’ll add something else to it,Paul Sartori drove for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt,cousin of W K V jr.

From Mystery Foto #15 Revealed: Emanuel Cedrino & His Wife Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Mystery Foto questions: Identify the following:

The driver: 
• Paul Sartori
The passenger: 
• Mrs. Sartori, his wife
The race car and the year(s) it participated in the Vanderbilt Cup Race(s):
• Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt’s 90hp 1904 FIAT, raced in 1904 and 1905

From Mystery Foto #15 Revealed: Emanuel Cedrino & His Wife Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

This seems to be too easy. Well here goes. The driver Paul Sartorial, driving for the Fiat Race Team for the 1904&1906; races. See ya Sunday

From Mystery Foto #15 Revealed: Emanuel Cedrino & His Wife Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Can’t get much better than that,can it? As I said you are always a crowd pleaser and you enjoy being part o f it.

From Smiles & Thumbs Ups for the Black Beast at the 60th Annual Easter Vintage Car Parade in Garden City

With regard to the 1935 image above, I believe this to be earlier than 1935 as the stated paved Route 110 with 20 foot twin slab concrete in 1933.  This original concrete surface was still visible on the former Route 110 (Walt Whitman Road) until it was resurfaced in 2011.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series#54:Broad Hollow Rd. Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville

Submitted by Gary Hammond

Clarence Chamberlin and his Sperry Messenger

1. Road – Stewart Ave., Garden City, looking east
2. Bridge – Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway “Highway” Bridge
3. Plane - Lawrence Sperry’s Messenger, powered with a 3 cylinder, 60 hp. Lawrence engine.
4. Pilot – Clarence D. Chamberlin (1893-1976), who had previously carried Charles A. Levine from Roosevelt Field to Eisleben, Germany in a Wright powered Bellanca, June 4-6, 1927, making Levine the 1st Transatlantic air passenger in a heavier-than-air craft (as opposed to airships)
5. Date & reason – January 23, 1928 – lecture & promote aviation
Documentation:
“Off a Street!
Mr. Clarence Chamberlin left New York on January 23 for an air tour of the United States, in course of which he intends to travel 30,000 miles.  His purpose will also be to lecture.  Forty-eight States and Cuba will be visited.  Before his departure, he took off in his Sperry Messenger machine from a busy street.  He wheeled it form the Kirkham Products Factory into the street, waited for a gap in the traffic, and then ascended, afterwards repeating the feat.  His machine has a wing span of only 20 ft., and is considered the smallest in America.”
Flight magazine, February 2, 1928, p. 67
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“His tiny, Sperry Messenger plane, may be identified by the numerals “35” on the underside of the left wing”
The Harrisburg [Pa.] Telegraph, January 24, 1928, p. 1
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A cropped image of this photo was published with the following caption:
“Clarence Chamberlin’s start last week from Garden City, L.I. on his proposed 30,000 mile country wide tour in a tiny Sperry Messenger plane.  The daring aviator is seen just after he had taxied the plane into a line of auto traffic on Stewart Ave. and astonished motorists by zooming over their cars.”
       
The Pittsburg Press, Sunday, January 29, 1929, p. 6 – Automobile Section
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“In a tiny eight year old plane, that he had reconditioned with his own hands, Clarence Chamberlin took off on a 30,000 mile lecture tour today after conducting his test flights in a motor cluttered street.  The plane is a Sperry Messenger, a dwarf type, with a three cylinder engine and a 20-foot wing spread formerly used by the army for short distance courier service.  Chamberlin found the old plane stowed away in a corner of the Fairchild factory at Garden City and bought it.  Today the Lilliput of the air, still wearing its eight year old tires, was trundled, into Stewart avenue, Garden City.  The little sixty horsepower motor crackled into life as though it had not long since been laid away to rust into nothing, and as a gap in the traffic appeared Chamberlin gave her the gun.  Amazed spectators watched and then burst into applause as the stunted old ship roared along the pavement for less than 100 feet between rows of tall trees and then lifted easily into the air.  After Chamberlin had repeated this program, landing in the street and rising a second time, he flew to Curtiss field and made his formal departure from there.  His first stop was Allentown, Pa.”
The Daily Illini, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., January 24, 1928, p. 2

From Mystery Friday Foto #14 Solved:Clarence D. Chamberlin Taking Off from Stewart Avenue in 1928

Guessing, 1920s, this could be the newly paved and expanded Union Tpke with the LIMP Creedmore highway bridge in the back (if so, this is a rare view of the hwy bridge). Just east of the newly installed Winchester Bl parkway bridge. The event could’ve been the christening of the ‘new’ Union Tpke.

From Mystery Friday Foto #14 Solved:Clarence D. Chamberlin Taking Off from Stewart Avenue in 1928

Congratulations on a much-deserved win!

From More Highlights from the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Can’t recall beans about it but I’ve seen the photo before.  The pilot was Clarence D. Chamberlin, who had taken a completely-useless Charles A. Levine (who’d wanted to be the co-pilot but was actually a last-moment stow-away ), who’d bought the plane, across the Atlantic with him on 4/5 June 1927, only just over a week after Lindbergh’s flight, flying “Miss Columbia”, a Wright-Bellanca WB-2 with a then-new J-5 Whirlwind, from Roosevelt Field to Helft (Eisleben), Germany.  The bridge is obviously a LIMP bridge on the Hempstead Plains, probably Merrick Ave. or thereabouts.  Further deponent sayeth (knoweth) not.  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday Foto #14 Solved:Clarence D. Chamberlin Taking Off from Stewart Avenue in 1928

Used to stop by and visit Ledge when was restoring the Renault.

From The Vintage Automobiles of the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Regarding my submission yesterday, I’ve indicated the date of the photo to be Jan. 26, 1928 based on an initial id of the photo.  However, additional material submitted to Howard indicates the photo may have been taken on Jan. 23, 1928 as that appears to be the date Chamberlin took off and landed on Stewart Avenue. In any case, it was taken within that time frame.

From Mystery Friday Foto #14 Solved:Clarence D. Chamberlin Taking Off from Stewart Avenue in 1928

I enjoy your “stuff”  THANKS I worked at the L.I.auto museum and austie had a lot of relics,but also had a nice collection of fords,maybe 10 or so.his many books of autos and repair manuals are at the ford museum. His back barns and attic in the museum were full of parts,some he sold and some he kept.I raced with austie in the 1911 mercer at Bridgehampton in 1950.that car sold last year for 2.3 mil.I was very sorry when the museum closed,because many people will never no the amount of very nice old museum cars                     thanks Gene Martin

From The 2014 Ford Employee PDC Car and Truck Show: Three Mustang Prototypes Together for the First Time