Vanderbilt Cup Races

Congratulations!  A well deserved award.  I particularly enjoyed seeing how you got the young ones involved.  Everyone in our hobby says that we need to do more of this, but you actually do it, and seem to enjoy it.  Well done.  Dennis Mamchur

From The Black Beast at the Amelia Island 2012 Concours D'Elegance

Dear Howard-
Always look forward to any info from your emails we receive but the material on the Silver Arrows always throws us in an frenzy. Thank you for that and good luck on the Chrysler resto. That car was waiting for you all these years to get her.
Best of luck to you
Jack

From PaddockTalk.com: A New Design For The 1937 Season: The Mercedes-Benz W 125 Grand Prix Car

LOOKS LIKE ALOT OF FUN AT A GREAT SHOWING OF CARS

                                                    DON

From The Black Beast at the Amelia Island 2012 Concours D'Elegance

Hi Howard,
Joan Crawfords’ roadster looks to me to be a 1934 Ford rather than a 1933 as stated.
A 1933 Ford has one hood handle in the center of the hood side panel. A 1934 has two hood handles one in the front and one at the rear of the side panel. The photo shows a rear hood handle (the front one is obscured in the photo by the curvature of the front fender. I have owned a 1934 Ford chopped top 3-window coupe hot rod since 1958. Thanks for all your efforts Howard. I truly enjoy your site.
Best regards,
Marty Zickerman

From Cars of the Stars Part II

Howard.  When can we order a club badge
For our vehicles?  Perhaps made of porcelain
Or tin?

From Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society- Thursday, March 22, 2012

Howard,
I could hear the excitement in your voice.  I’m glad that Walt Gosden had a chance to look at it.  Many people are looking forward to seeing that car.
Rog

From Mineola Patch: Local Historian Buys One-of-a-Kind 75 Year Old Chrysler Imperial

Hesh, you are so The Man.  Congrats on the new Leviathan.  I love it.
Bonham’s ran a full page ad in NYT today of a BMW 507 for low seven figures. 
Not too shabby.  Golf this summer for sure.

From Mineola Patch: Local Historian Buys One-of-a-Kind 75 Year Old Chrysler Imperial

Even more tragic is the fact that nothing was ever built on that spot after it was taken down. An important piece of Motor Parkway/Lake Ronkonkoma history destroyed for no good reason!

From Then & Now: The Annex to the Petit Trianon

Gorgeous car!  And the Nethercutt Museum is a delight—I’ve been there twice(when I visit my daughter in California) and never cease to marvel at their collection.

From Seen in the Amelia Island Concours Parking Lot: Fatty Arbuckle's 1923 McFarlan

Thanks for the comments! Marty, you are very funny and right on target!

From Newsday and Patch: Kroplick Appointed Town Historian

Paperwork being finalized. Hope to have it in my garage sometime this month.

From Wall Street Journal: The Vanderbilt Legacy

Howard, What is the progress on your new 1937 Chrysler?

From Wall Street Journal: The Vanderbilt Legacy

I always enjoy reading the blog and seeing what the group has been doing.  As a youngster in the early fifties our boy scout troop would hike on the parkway in Bethpage, going east from Hicksville Road.  Little did I know that my wife and I would eventually buy a house(which we still live in) near the current Motor Parkway in Dix Hills.  Keep up the good work!

From Then & Now: A Hidden Section of the Motor Parkway in Western Suffolk

All, I am very happy to see that there are people out there who care to preserve the historical and physical remains of the parkway. As a child in the 1970’s I would walk down the ancient road every day to school which you all know of as the spur east of Five Towns College. My friends and I treated that area as an extension of our own back yards. I am aware of two potential dig sites in the surrounding area which I have personally yielded artifacts of the era and I am pretty sure were not destroyed from the last and final development. I would like to help with the cause and share in the excitment in recovering the past.

From Then & Now: A Hidden Section of the Motor Parkway in Western Suffolk

I am so pleased for those of us who live in N. Hempstead because I know how excited you are about local history.  You have a wonderful attitude and ability to make history fun as well as interesting.  Have you met the “Spinny Hill” authors.  They did a great little movie!  Not quite as exciting as your Vanderbilt show - but very well documented and presented.  I think you would hit it off!

From Newsday and Patch: Kroplick Appointed Town Historian

Just my size.  I remember Austin walking around the museum wearing the jacket and looking like he was just an employee.  Many visitors didn’t realize who that guy was.
Rog

From Found: Henry Austin Clark, Jr's Long Island Automotive Museum Shop Jacket

Thanks Howard.  Fantastic memorabilia.  They bring back a lot of good memories of the museum and its collection.
Rog

From More Memorabilia From the Long Island Automotive Museum

Way to go Howard!

From Newsday and Patch: Kroplick Appointed Town Historian

Congratulations Howard on taking on another non-paying time-consuming job!!

From Newsday and Patch: Kroplick Appointed Town Historian

Wonderful!! Thanks so much for the information! I should be able to help them with the provenance. Hope to be able to see it soon.

From Can You Help Find This 1908 Pope-Hartford Touring Car?