Vanderbilt Cup Races

Howard,
I really appreciate this.  Good luck with Ian.

Cary

From A Sandy Benefit Car Show, Resources and Information to Aid the Recovery on Long Island

From Jeff B;
Thanks very much for this infomation.  Really very helpful.

Hope your garage made out ok (as well as you and yours of course).

From A Sandy Benefit Car Show, Resources and Information to Aid the Recovery on Long Island

Hi Sam III:

Thanks for the comment. I remember providing these photos to you courtesy of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum in 2008. Time flies!

http://sbiii.com/limpbrdg.html#gardcity

Enjoy,

Howard

From Part II: Then & Now: The Motor Parkway "Mayan Ruins" of Garden City

Why am I somewhat less than impressed?  I had these abutments posted on my LIMP Bridges page since 05 Feb 2008, “The LIMP bridge that wasn’t!”, <http://sbiii.com/limpbrdg.html#gardcity>, even with YOUR own pix.  Happily, that is one of my LIMP pages that I had already restored (05 Oct 2010).  I’m still working on the rest.  Sam, III

From Part II: Then & Now: The Motor Parkway "Mayan Ruins" of Garden City

I think your car has the most pleasing design of all those shown…. -.  seems that as the years passed the white wall tire fell out of favor….

Glad to hear you survived well.  .

From My Hershey Treasure: Five Chrysler Town Car Factory Photos (1937-1942)

Whew! A little close for comfort, but good to know what conditions are tolerable and when you need another plan. Ken

From Black Beast Garage Withstands the Fury of Superstorm Sandy

Hi Walt, thanks for the comment and the help in finding these photos. Much appreciated!

From My Hershey Treasure: Five Chrysler Town Car Factory Photos (1937-1942)

Hi Howard,

I’m glad you made it through the storm without any damage !!  The photo says it all. Man , that was close .....

                                Regards, Lou

From Black Beast Garage Withstands the Fury of Superstorm Sandy

so glad that all is well at the garage..a once in a lifetime storm with heart breaking results

From Black Beast Garage Withstands the Fury of Superstorm Sandy

Howard, All the other photos you purchased show cars with either full or semi custom coachwork by the Derham Body Co. of Rosemont, Pa. . Derham was founded as a carriage builder and made the transition to motor cars. It was one of the premier custom coachwork firms and lasted until 1967 (!) out living all its competition from the Pre WWII era of the Golden Age of coachwork . Derham survived by taking on a Chrysler - DeSoto franchise in 1936, so could modify a production sedan into a semi custom (padded top, new interior, etc) but also do full customs bodies the last 3 photos are full customs.
I always buy pre war period paper and photographs from the vendor you bought your photographs at Hershey and when I saw these just knew it was a place you had to visit !  Keep the memories of the great time at Hershey while we put up with the stress of the recovery from the storm.

From My Hershey Treasure: Five Chrysler Town Car Factory Photos (1937-1942)

I am glad to see that the cars have escaped damage.  I wish everyone well during the recovery from this terrible storm.

Steve McKelvie
Franklin, MA

From Black Beast Garage Withstands the Fury of Superstorm Sandy

And oh what a time it was!!!!
Thank you one and all

From The "Sunday Drive" on the Motor Parkway in Queens

Howard,
Thanks for posting.
Best regards,
Wayne Carroll Petersen

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From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Barney Oldfield Preparing for the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Great slide show of very interesting cars.  I’ll try to make the next one.

Ken

From Smiles and Thumbs Ups from the 2012 Cradle of Aviation Classic Car Show

Howard, thanks for your support of the annual Cradle of Aviation Show. You are a loyal member of our Long Island Sound Region of the Classic Car Club of America. It was great to see your Chrysler out on the road and being driven since its decades of hibernation! Because of you this great car will stay here on Long Island.

From Smiles and Thumbs Ups from the 2012 Cradle of Aviation Classic Car Show

thanks for all your help and your input in to the show
your cars make it a special day
and your patience with kids is so ‘strange” to the hobby

thanks
jim barnes

From Smiles and Thumbs Ups from the 2012 Cradle of Aviation Classic Car Show

Tom, thanks for the info!

From History Channel's "Men Who Built America" Series

Hope we don’t get that storm, I’m looking forward to take that drive from Queens to Ronkonkoma. All these years I knew about Motor Parkway, but not that it was and still is historic. I knew about the sretch on Jericho by Westbury Gardens,I was at an event once, but didn’t know it started in Queens, the presentation informed me of that on Thursday nite,well as they say, “you live and learn”. That story he told was pretty amazing too. Got my finger crossed for Sunday,see you bright and early

From Smiles and Thumbs Ups from the 2012 Antique Car & Fashion Show in Cutchogue

Actually Carnegie didn’t hire Frick so much as go into business with him.  Frick was not a coal supplier.  He produced coke for blast furnace consumption.  He owned coke furnaces.  Carnegie convinced him to come in with him and being ready to retire gave him control of the steel company.  After the strike, Carnegie, horrified sold out to J.P. Morgan and then, like Rockefeller he spent the rest of his life setting up charitable institutions, esp. libraries as he had loved to read as a child.  (My home town has one of his libraries.  - TBA

From History Channel's "Men Who Built America" Series

Howard !  What a great show it was indeed, especially that BEAST of a ride with you, the greatest I ever had, never thought I would get a chance like that, riding in a historical racing car like that, I sort of made history, didn’t I ?  Can’t thank you enough.

From Smiles and Thumbs Ups from the 2012 Antique Car & Fashion Show in Cutchogue