Vanderbilt Cup Races

I remember the hospital well as I delivered a Newsday paper to the Morgue located down a driveway to the first basement level. This was probably 1954-55. 
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From Howard Kropkick:

Brad, I delivered Newsday in East Meadow, too!

From Mystery Foto #76 Solved: An Aerial of Meadowbrook Hospital and East Meadow Circa 1951/1952

My family moved to East Meadow around 1950-1951 and bought a new cape code house at 288 (?) Old Westbury Rd. less than about 1/16 of a mile east of the LIMP #38 bridge. We where one of only two homes out there. Across the road were potato fields and we could see the prison from our front yard. There was a short overgrown auto path that ran from Old Westbury Rd. northeast towards the parkway where people would dump their trash (clothing, washing machines etc.). These where the days of Hoppalong Cassidy and I would play cowboys and Indians alone on the bridge and below it’s east side where stuff was dumped.
It was a wonderful place to play.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #38: Westbury Road Bridge in East Meadow

Ted, the car in the back round behind Howard and Joey is a 1934 Packard V12 custom coupe body by Packard built to a LeBaron design. One of these coupes was sold new to a fellow , George Davidoff, who lived in Roslyn Estates (not the car in the photo) and that car is now in Bob Bahre’s collection in Maine. Approximately 3 of these custom cars remain.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Howard you have done an excellent job on this site. I live near Bethpage Park and it`s great to locate the old landmarks.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #47: Powell Avenue Bridge in Central Park (Bethpage)

Brian - thanks for he compliment, I think!  Here’s my website to be sure.

http://www.limparkway.webs.com/

From Mystery Foto #12 Solved: Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion #3 Built at the Former Locomobile Factory

Can’t do much better than that. Lovin ever minute of it and your in your glory every minute you are with that car

From More Highlights from the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Art….It was a nice surprise to come across “Art Kleiner” when I reading about Mr. Fuller on wikipedia. I know there’s quite a bit of Brian McCarthys out there. Pretty sure the LIMP website I viewed is yours. Between your own research and what you bring to Howard’s site, you writing about anything would’nt shock me at all.        BDM

From Mystery Foto #12 Solved: Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion #3 Built at the Former Locomobile Factory

Glad to see others learned a bit about Fuller and his ideas (and sorry about last week’s mystery photo).  Fuller was rather fascinating!  Brian and Tim mentioned that I’ve written about the car in my book, “The Age of Heretics”.  This might be the case, but it was not my book (actually I’ve never written any books).  I share the name Art Kleiner with a much more scholarly person than I - I first found this out about 15 years ago when I started getting e-mails from people congratulating me on a book I had written, and I had to confess they had the wrong Art Kleiner.  I did correspond with the “other” Art Kleiner and did read a book or two of his, including the “The Age of Heretics”, but honestly don’t remember the Dymaxion in it.  Will go back and take it out again and see.  More recently, the “other” Art Kleiner is employed by a major management consultant of which my current employer uses and for which I’m the key contact.  In fact, some e-mails directed to me have actually been sent to the “other” Art Kleiner at the firm.  One of these days I need to physically meet my actual namesake, the “real” Art Kleiner”.  But thanks, Brian and Tim, for giving my ego a boost!

From Mystery Foto #12 Solved: Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion #3 Built at the Former Locomobile Factory

I couldn’t find the VCR link, and tried again. You guys are way too much. Howard, you’re busy and we’re waiting. Concours?? Can’t be.

From Mystery Foto #12 Solved: Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion #3 Built at the Former Locomobile Factory

Another great win and well deserved Thank you

From Chrysler's Chrysler Captures a First Place Award at the Annual Meeting of the CCCA in Savannah

Well done Howard I can’t wait to see it this summer Thank you for preserving and sharing all your treasures

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

From Tom Abbe:
I wonder if you knew the Dymaxion featured in your mystery photo was at the Concours?

From Mystery Foto #12 Solved: Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion #3 Built at the Former Locomobile Factory

Another Congrats for another win Howard!

While going through the results/award titles for Amelia Island show website, I was surprised to see they had the 1933 Dymaxion car #1 replica present. Hence, the connection to this week’s mystery photo! Another interesting Vanderbilt Cup link would be “The Camille Jenatzy Award”...

I also suspect if you were able to bring the ALCO as well you might have had a second award for the ‘Indianapolis Motor Speedway/Tony Hulman Award - FOR THE MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT INDIANAPOLIS RACE CAR’.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Congratulations - Good Show.  After all that work we are glad you are being recognized for it.  The car is a beauty.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

More than the awards which are great, I really appreciate the commitment to bringing these cars back to being a piece of art.
Thank you!

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Congratulations Howard & Roz for winning again! I’ll assume the Chrysler will be at the Greenwich Concours in May and I expect that Best of Show is certainly a possibility.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

I came across some interesting connections between the Dymaxion, its creators Fuller and Burgess, and the Cup Races, some direct and others maybe a strectch.  Here are my submissions:
- Fuller and his partner in the Dymaxion design, William Starling Burgess, rented part of the Locomobile Bridgeport facility to build their car.  (Site of where cup racers were built)
- The Dymaxion appeared at Roosevelt Raceway in August of 1933.  (Route of races)
- Partner William Starling Burgess was primarily a builder of ships and built one named the “Brutal Beast”. (Obviously years after the “Black Beast”)
- Burgess was commissioned by William K. Vanderbilt’s brother, Harold Vanderbilt, to build his entries in the America’s Cup sailing races. (Family connection)
- Burgess’ company was eventually sold to Curtiss Aeroplane and Automobile Company. (Curtiss plant and airfield near route of race)
- Fuller had plans to create homes from prefabricated materials, similar to how Levittown homes were built. (Races ran through Levittown)
- Fuller and his Dymaxion favorably impressed Walter Chrysler and were invited to Chyrsler’s LI estate.  (I guess Howard is the connection here to the Vanderbilt Cup Races)

From Mystery Foto #12 Solved: Buckminister Fuller's Dymaxion #3 Built at the Former Locomobile Factory

The picture with GT Joey Limongelli. What car is behind you? It almost looks like yours,but I know it’ not,the license plate is different and so is the back window. It can’t be another 37 Chysler can it?same body style,maybe a Dodge or Plymout. If you see John,tell him he looks great,fits right in with the car,perfect. CONGRATS . Surprised to see Dr.Simeone.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Well deserved award for a great classic and to real gentleman!

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

From Jan Hyde:

Great, well deserved.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Honored with "The Amelia Island Award" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance