Vanderbilt Cup Races

Hi Paul:

Thanks for the memories. If you have any photos to share from the parade lap, please email them to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .

Enjoy,

Howard

From What Hampered the Marmon Wasp During 2011 Indy 500 Parade Lap

Brilliant reporting Howard. Your contributions to our knowledge about the Maine Maid Inn are important keys to understanding Long Island’s past. Thanks for all the care and attention. I’m inspired! Tom

From Preserving the Maine Maid Inn and the Vanderbilt Cup Races

Loved the videos and pictures. I was helping push the Wasp to try to get it started. When it finally fired up, A.J the mechanic fell and was being dragged down the track. I ran around and picked him before he was run over by the rear wheel. My wife got pictures of the whole event and I would love to share them with you. Truly one of the greatest experiences of my life!

From What Hampered the Marmon Wasp During 2011 Indy 500 Parade Lap

Fantastic…

From Heavy Equipment Crew Visits the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge

Jean-Yves:

Great job! I am impressed!!

Howard

From From the Frank P. Krug Family Collection: Unique Views of Krug's Hotel

Hi Howard,
The racing car is the Isotta-Fraschini (or the same one) which Harry Grant drove in the 1913 Indianapolis 500 and Elgin National Trophy. He also drove this car in the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup at Santa Monica and broke a piston during the first lap. Then Ray Gilhooley drove it in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and crash it on lap 42.

From From the Frank P. Krug Family Collection: Unique Views of Krug's Hotel

Hi Bill:

Agree. The author Greg Merksamer does state “This venue.. is only about a mile south and east of Roosevelt Field, where Charles Lindbergh commenced his 1927 solo flight to Paris…”

Howard

From Article: "Classics Gather Where Lindbergh's Flight Began"

Howard.

Lindbergh’s flight do not begin at Mitchel Field, but at Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Field in 1927 was located where Fortunoff’s is (or was).

Great images, however! Sorry I missed the show. Was out of town.

bill

From Article: "Classics Gather Where Lindbergh's Flight Began"

Thanks again Howard-

Truly amazing!

Hope all is well with you.

Tom Grant

From May 7, 1911 The World : Harry Grant Practicing on the Motor Parkway at 107.8 Miles Per Hour

Will you be bringing the Alco-6 racer to Milwaukee next July?

From Archives: 1912 Vanderbilt Cup Race

From Robert R:

“107.8 in the Black Beast?  I cannot even imagine such speeds!  Those guys truly were cut from a different cloth.”

From May 7, 1911 The World : Harry Grant Practicing on the Motor Parkway at 107.8 Miles Per Hour

HOWARD

PLEASE ENROLE ME IN THE LIMP PRESERVATION SOCIETY
THANK YOU

ROGER YACKEL

From First Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society

Hope more plates will be discovered ~ it’s always a possibility.

From The 1931 Caddy with Two Long Island Motor Parkway Plates

Thanks Al. I was referring to the large placard-type sign that was closer to the LIMP, not the street sign in the near-view. It’s not in the style of a street sign. Which one are you referring to? Since the aerial seems to show an entrance road on the right side, I thought maybe it was a Motor Parkway sign.

Regards, Mitch

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #11 Little Neck Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Queens

Weather is going to be in the 60’s…. open to car enthusiastis and spectators… Fun for all, raffles and 50-50 Sunday Nov 13th at the Lynbrook Atria, 100 Peninsula Blvd just south of Sunrise Highway, 10 am- 3 pm ” Salute to Veterans Car Show Fundraiser and Lunch Come and support this event!!! Includes lunch 😊

From Hempstead Plains Vintage Car Club Car Show, Lynbrook, NY

Wayne: Appreciate the comments!!

Howard

From Highlights from the First Annual Motor Parkway Parade

Ivan: Thanks so much for the information!

Howard

From A Tampa Bay Automobile Museum Challenge: Help Identify This Front Wheel Drive Racer

I have been following this blog since last summer, when I wondered about the first parkway was built in America. The first images I found were the bridges over 73rd St and Old Court House Rd. I was reminded of some ancient ruins and the more I explored on the net, the more fascinated I became. This is the best site. I use Google Maps many times. The old photos make it seem I am looking into another world. I have even read portions of the “Auction Block” by Rex Beach on line and have numerous bookmarks of the LIMP. Excellent dedication to something this historic.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #10 Commonwealth Boulevard Bridge in Queens

Hi Howard,
I think I can shed some light on Mitch Kaften"s question regarding the sign on the right side of Little Neck Parkway. It is a street sign and in all likelihood says Shiloh Av. Prior to the building of Glen Oaks Village the area was laid out in a regular grid pattern and Shiloh Av., which is on the west side of Little Neck Parkway, was to run all the way to the Nassau County Line. The buildings abutting the Motor Parkway on the east side of Little Neck Parkway front on what was to be Elkmont Av., which still exists on the west side of Little Neck Parkway. Look at maps of that part of Queens published before the late 1940’s to get a better understanding of what the area looked like prior to the building of Glen Oaks Village             Al Velocci

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #11 Little Neck Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Queens

Louis Chevrolet built a front wheel drive Ford for the 1926 racing season but that car was powered by a supercharged sleeved down Model T engine with a Frontenac DO cylinder head and from all reports it retained the Model T frame. It was entered in the Indy 500 that year by the Hamlin-Holmes Motor Co. of Chicago IL. Jack McCarver qaulified on the 9th row but lost a connecting rod on the 22nd lap and retired. Some time during the year the car was crashed at a race in Detroit so i wonder if it was ‘re-chassied’ after this. It continued to be raced, albeit unsuccessfully,  and was still running in 1932 but by then it was called the Ray Day Piston Special. As far as i know, Hamlin-Holmes only built two cars. A touring model in 1919 that looked very much like a Model T Ford and in 1930, possibly the company’s last year of existence, a front weel drive 4 door sedan was built.

From A Tampa Bay Automobile Museum Challenge: Help Identify This Front Wheel Drive Racer