Vanderbilt Cup Races

Howard:

Wasn’t DF Maltby’s in Jericho?

From Mystery Foto #48 Solved: D.F. Maltby Automobile Garage in Jericho After the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

-Where was the photo taken?
Jericho,  Jericho Turnpike

-What was the date of the photo?
October 24, 1908

-What and who is the crowd staring at?
George Robertson and the #16 Locomobile

-Identify the building in the background
Locomobile team headquarters located in D.F. Maltby’s Automobile Garage

-Bonus: What was the earliest time of the day that this photo was taken? Why?
Sunrise preparation for the race, about 6:30-7am

From Mystery Foto #48 Solved: D.F. Maltby Automobile Garage in Jericho After the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Hi Howard:

  A most pleasant presentation for the year end…...Happy Holiday season to
you and yours !!!!!

                                Cordially,  Ron Ridolph

From Video of the Week: Holiday Sights and Sounds at the Vanderbilt Museum (2011)

Hi Brian, somewhere I scanned the photo. I will try to track down the original Newsday article.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series#42:Wantagh Avenue Bridge in Hempstead Plains Updated:6/20/16

Hello to all. I hope everyone had a nice holiday. Howard, did you access the 1973 article thru a library? That’s a pretty decent photo.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series#42:Wantagh Avenue Bridge in Hempstead Plains Updated:6/20/16

amazing stuff…where’s my time-machine?!

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

‘36, The old raceway configuration with Vanderbilt Cup Race in progress at the track.

Looking west, The LIMP is at top left corner running diagonally on the south side of polo fields, twin Roosevelt Field bridges over the Limp at Polo Field’s SE corner, Meadowbrook Lodge and Merrick Ave bridge just off the aerial at the bottom

Horses: Polo grounds top centre, Fox Hunting: Meadowbrook Club south of the polo grounds, Airplanes: Roosevelt Field at top right (where Lindbergh nearly clipped the phone lines on Merrick Ave on take off to Paris in ‘27, Golfing: Salisbury Course (off the aerial at the bottom).

Wishing all a safe and happy holiday, and healthy new year.

Frank

From Mystery Foto #47 Solved: Aerial of 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway

A holiday softball!

-Identify the likely date for the aerial. Why?

It’s the faster race course of the July 5, 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

-Identify anything related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races and Long Island Motor Parkway in the aerial

The Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge

-Identify all other things related to sports in the aerial

The Meadowbrook Polo Club Fields

From Mystery Foto #47 Solved: Aerial of 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway

Those videos, particularly the Indy cruise on the track, were fantastic…..

From Wharton Magazine "The Black Beast and The Blue Pill"

It’s amazing how much work has to be done and the time it takes to do it the right way,but now you are almost at the finish line and will be able to enjoy it and show it off.  Thanks for the latest update.

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

Roosevelt Field. 
About 1937.
LIMP runs across top left of photo. One Bridge can be seen.
Auto Racing, Polo, Golf

From Mystery Foto #47 Solved: Aerial of 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway

As the incoming president of the AACA Peconic Bay Region, I second George Bartunek’s request for you to give a talk on this Chrysler and perhaps bring it to our Hallockville Meet in the fall of 2014.  I also enjoyed your talk to our group on the Vanderbilt Races.  We will try our very best to accomodate your schedule to get you to give a presentation on the this car.
Thanks very much for all you do for this hobby.
Joe

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

From Doug C:

I had stumbled upon your site while doing some historical searches on Long Island.  Your site is a wealth of knowledge. The time and effort put into it really shows.  I can spend weeks playing around with this.  I’ll be sure to order your book as well.  My love for Long Island history has taken me in may different directions but since Ronkonkoma was where I grew up, I always seem to go back to researching there.  Through your site, I found that Petit Trianon and some other sites were in areas I had frequented when I was younger.  Your research inspires me to dig deeper now.  When I retire, I was considering giving lectures on Indians indigenous to the Island.  I’m not sure how many people would be interested but I’d love to share the knowledge.

Many thanks,

Doug

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Highlights and Blog Archives for November 2013

The car will once again be the pride of Long Island.
You should do a photo shoot at the former Chrysler Home at Kings Point when it is complete.
Between Steve’s work, Howard’s money and Walt’s journalism you are producing a great story for the car hobby and HISTORY as well.
Congradulations from your friends at Long Island Sound Region of CCCA.

JIM BARNES

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

This is the 1902 Mors type Z racer with which William K. Vanderbilt participated in the Paris-Vienna race (during which he had to give up after the 1st stage) and the 1902 Circuit des Ardennes (in which he finished on 3rd place). The photo is taken before the start of the latter race, held on July 31 for the first time. Interesting is the fact that the car carries no.76, whereas according to Gerald Rose’s standard work ‘A Record of Motor Racing’ (1908) its number would have been 27. The highest official number in this race was 75, but for some (unknown) reason the car must have been renumbered to 76. Was it maybe a premonition for the world record he would attain with the same car within a week after this race? On August 5 at Ablis (near Chartres) he broke the flying kilometre record with a speed of 122.4 km/hr, equivalent to just over 76 miles/hr!

From Mystery Foto #46 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt Jr in a Mors at the 1902 Circuit des Ardennes Race

Thanks for the comments. Chrysler’s Chrysler will be in car events throughout Long Island beginning in the fall of 2014.

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

Restoration looks great. It will be a wonderful and exclusive car to drive and show starting with Pebble Beach.  And then hopefully a homecoming at the Vanderbilt Show on Sept. 14th.

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

Awesome resto. Vanderbilt museum should be ashamed to let it get so bad. What will happen when it’s done? Seems a shame to hide it away in a private collection.

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATES, I AWAIT WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION EACH AND EVERY ONE.

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish

Howard,
Wow, what an incredible restoration.  I can’t wait to see the car when it’s finished.
You must be very proud.
Rog

From Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle VII: Getting Primed For The Finish