Vanderbilt Cup Races

A very helpful tool for LIMP enthusiasts.

Perhaps you could add markers for the Old Country Rd bridge and the Clinton Rd bridge in Garden City. I also have a photo of the present embankment on the east side of Clinton Rd which can be emailed if you want to add it.

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

Art, I was informed that the Motor Parkway remnants in this area will not be distrubed.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #28 Westbury Avenue Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge

Howard - good news.  Have they committed to not disturbing the posts on the north side of Westbury Avenue?

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #28 Westbury Avenue Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge

That was a great video and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
Thanks for putting it on the website.

Ken Harris

From Video: "Celebrating the Long Island Motor Parkway"

My efforts on wikimapia to stitch the LIMP together certainly pale in comparison! Great job Wayne!

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

H Howard,

Have you tried Wayne Carini?

Best,
Art

From Edsel Ford II Needs Your Help to Find Henry's 1901 Trophy

Can’t stay away,always something here,I can’t keep up with it.How’d I miss that event in June at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration? Enjoyed those videos and interviews with the Model A Club members,very interesting as usual everything about the Motor Parkway is,the way you are trying to preserve as much as you possible can

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

I looked at the map more closely,but didn’t find anything of interest that you people don’t know about already. I’m enjoying watching the short videos of the Black Beast in action at some events you were at a few years ago,what a famous car you have,Is it the most famous antique car on Long Island or what? I think so,you go everywhere you can with it and you are in a class of your own and the people are always amazed at it,I could go on and on about it,but we all know about it.

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

YES you can load the LIMP map onto your Android phone and follow it’s path. Google maps are new on iPhone so don’t know how it will work on an iPhone. I have loaded maps on my Android phone and know it works.

copied this from this site:

http://sean-feeney.com/2011/04/view-kml-or-kmz-on-android.html

Import the KMZ (edit note: or KML) into Google’s My Maps. Click My Maps - Create New Map - Import. Name it and save it.
Open the native Google Maps application on your Android. Click the Layers icon (the middle icon at the top right). Click More Layers at the bottom right. Click My Maps. Select your map.
Voila. Your map, with your position (more or less accurate depending on whether you have GPS enabled at the moment).
Posted by Sean Feeney at 10:29 PM

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

I looked at the map a little bit more and found out it didn’t go thru anywhere close to where I live in Plainview, I have to look somemore,I might have found somewhere else I might know of,most of the places I saw you know of them already.

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

What a great tool Wayne’s map is.  Andrew can use it ti go 1/2 mile north of Ruland Road on Maxxes Road and track along the LIMP from the bridge there.  I need to figure how to download it to my Iphone 4.  Is it an APP?  Is it ON Google Map?
Great Job Wayne !
Bruce Adams
Corr Secty.
LIMP Preservation Society

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

The map of the outline of where the motor parkway ran is great. I have to look at it more closely before I can comment on it,from what I see,I think I know of a few places it ran and may have to go check it out,if it’s the area where I live and too far,maybe I’ll find something.

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

This is a fantastic aid to really understanding how the VMP wound its way across the island!  What I learned from it is this:  I worked on Ruland Road in Melville and I would often wonder where the VMP ran through that area. What I learned is that it ran right through what was my office!  Often I would stand outside the front of the building and try to see any signs in the woods across the street that might tip off where the old road had been.  Turns out, I was ‘sitting on the road’ every day! 

Great job Wayne!  Thank you!

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

99.9% of the work was done. All I did was connect the dots from Howard’s LIMP site. Please help with comments or corrections. Feel free to download the KML file from the google map and use it in google earth or convert it to a GPS file that will load into a hand held GPS. I use a Garmin eTrex and used a program GPSbable ( google it ) to convert it to .GPX.
Note - the photos in the locations as noted above are not copied which may infringe on copyright laws. Instead they are a link to the photo on the web site they are stored on. None of the images were copied just used the “hot link” feature of google maps.
Thanks Howard for a great site.

From A New Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

Very interesting about Henry Ford’s Trophy,that it could still exist,but who was that person who bought it and what did he do with it,or where did it go from there, that’s the question.Someone out there will find it,now that it’s in the open,like always,you just have to know the know how,to find it Good luck. By the way do you know about The Classics at the Taj Mahal on March 1 in Atlantic City?

From Edsel Ford II Needs Your Help to Find Henry's 1901 Trophy

Hope everyone had a happy and joyfull new years. Howard,thanks for all the updates on everything you can come up with and that’s alot,don’t know how you do it,as your readers say “you are so informative”. Everytime I come on,there’s something new and learning more about the Vanderbilt Cup Races and Motor Parkway. It’s amazing how much there’s to know,so much we don’t know too,but somehow you Howard or someone else does find it

From 1937 Chrysler's Chrysler Highlighted in Vanderbilt Museum Annual Report 2012

Tom Cooper purchased the 999 Auto from Henry Ford on Oct. 13, 1902. Barney Oldfield drove the 999 Auto to beat Alex Winton in his Winton Bullet Auto on Oct. 25, 1902. As a result of of this publicity and with the financial backing of Alex Y. Malcomson the Ford Motor Company was launched in November 1902.

From Film "The Race That Changed Everything" with Edsel B. Ford II

Thought I’d sent my thank-you to everyone who helped identify my Aunt Nell’s car, but apparently not. I appreciate the more-than-I-ever-expected-to-know response and enjoy the photo more knowing it’s a 1912 Overland.

Thanks again to you all,

Rog

From Can You Identify Aunt Nell Patterson's Automobile?

From Ann B:

Happy New Year to you and your family Howard!  As always, I enjoy your blogs especially the Top 20 Posts, this week, which included the piece John had the thrill to film with Greg for NEWS 4.

From The Top Twenty 2012 Posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com

Hi Roy:

It is Route 107. A section of the Motor Parkway is still there as an access road to a Nassau County Police Department Eighth Precinct from Massapequa-Hicksville Road.

From A View of the Vanderbilt Cup Races From the Massapequa-Hicksville Road Motor Parkway Bridge