Vanderbilt Cup Races

Howard:  Congrats!!!  Be well. Tom

From First Edition of "Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island" Sells Out

Hi Whitney:

I would suggest contacting the Manhasset Library and the Greentree Foundation for more information on your family.

Name: Greentree Foundation
Street: 220 Community Drive
Manhasset, ny 11030-3814
Phone: (516) 627-0801

http://www.nassaulibrary.org/manhass/

Enjoy,

Howard

From Six Degrees of Separation: The Vanderbilt Cup Races and the New York Mets

Huntley:

The Locomobile factory was taken down in 1967 and became a powerplant. It is now part of the Bridgeport Energy LLC complex:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=Bridgeport+Energy+LLC&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=12385107294103545942&li=lmd

Here is the 1946 film of the Jubilee:

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/index.php/blog/article/sunday_july_5_2009_film_the_last_race_for_old_16_and_joe_tracy_1946

Enjoy,

Howard

From Joe Tracy and Old 16's Last Great Victory

Hi John and Gene:

Thanks for your positive comments!

FYI, pieces of the Motor Parkway and several concrete posts are still near the Clinton Road Bridge location. The Garden City Lodge has been preserved and has been relocated to Seventh Avenue in the village of Garden City.

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/index.php/blog/article/toll_lodges_of_the_long_island_motor_parkway

Enjoy,

Howard

From Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Around Roosevelt Field

Hi Jim:

I am sure they do. You can contact the organizer Jay Corn at 1-516-829-6419 .

Enjoy,

Howard

From The Alco-6 Racer will be Featured at the 25th Annual Great Neck Plaza Festival

Hi Guy:

Thanks for the information. The owner of that EFFYH is the handsome gentleman in the photo in this post:

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/index.php/blog/article/thursday_july_16_2009_the_racer_on_the_trailer_at_bridgehampton_in_1951

Enjoy,

Howard

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Film "The Bridgehampton Cup Race June 9, 1951"

The Effyh arriving at the 1951 Bridgehampton races was owned by Charles Kotchian and piloted by John Fitch, who won the race for small bore cars (not on film clip). Bruce Stevenson, the instigator of the street races at Bridgehampton later became an Effyh distributor. Fitch also won the Giants Despair Hillclimb in 1950 with this same car. I think this was the introduction of the Effyh to the US. The history of the car for the next few years remains a mystery, but an Effyh was found in a barn at Brynfan Tyddyn and was refurbished and driven by Jack Dupont in 1955. Guess who owns that car today?

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Film "The Bridgehampton Cup Race June 9, 1951"

Harley Gene writes:

Please look closely at the first 9 seconds of the film clip. I have never seen the tow car that is pulling a vintage race car. Anyone know about that tow car? The body work is superb.
HG

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Film "The Bridgehampton Cup Race June 9, 1951"

There are two breeze autos around owned by the same person,the first must be the racer pictured and the other a white roadster. i have pictures of both taken late 2001. they were in Queens but he has moved

From The 1911 Breese Racer

Walter:

Teddy Roosevelt would be pleased!

Enjoy,

Howard

From The Alco-6 Racer Invited to the 2009 Fairfield County Concours D'Elegance

Howard Please find out if they want the “classics”  for Great Neck???

Thanks JIM Barnes

From The Alco-6 Racer will be Featured at the 25th Annual Great Neck Plaza Festival

For those of you who won’t be at the Fairfield Concours de Elegance, and want to see a lot of pre 1942 vehicles (or have one you would like to participate with) the L.I. Region HCCA has its Sagamore Hill car show the same day. A very low key affair, no judging, etc. the only pre war car show left on Long Island. Last year there were 90 cars there.

From The Alco-6 Racer Invited to the 2009 Fairfield County Concours D'Elegance

I have a news clipping photo of a tiny car hand captioned Robert Breese at Bridgehampton 1915 - could be the same person and I recall seeing a barn with BREESE painted on the roof in huge letters.

From The 1911 Breese Racer

Checking to find out if you still have the color
post cards of antique and classic cars that I have been seeing advertised in my earlier dates of Old Cars News and Weekly Marketplace newspapers.If so, please,“snail-mail” me your listings together with
your current prices.These ads were in the early to mid-1970s withbdcame56 a price of 20 cards for $1.15-a price that, I’m certain, is obsolete at this time!

From What was the Long Island Automotive Museum?

I really want to thank Howard and Al.  This book and “The Toll Lodges of the Long Island Motor Parkway, and Their Gatekeepers’ Lives” by Al Velocci really got me through a history writing class I just took.  The project was focused on the LIMP and Howard Kroplick, Al Velocci, and Sam Berliner were key sources for me.

Thanks guys!  Great work!

From New Book from Howard Kroplick and Al Velocci "The Long Island Motor Parkway"

I’ll be there representing Late Model American Muscle.  Had a great time last year - only hope it is as good!

Cheers!  Phil King

From Update on Second Annual Vanderbilt Autocross and Concours on Sunday, July 26th

Now, all you need to do is find the lyrics!

From Hear and See the 1906 Broadway Musical "The Vanderbilt Cup"

This was a great find today in my inbox. You see when I was a little boy, about 11 or 12 years old I moved to Garden City. I lived on Chestnut Street and I used to walk to Roosevelt Field to go to the Mall. I found a short cut with my friends; it was along a semi-paved section of road, just behind a school. It was overgrown with trees that led to the corner of the mall. We took it for years…it’s behind Steward Ave School, then behind a small Park, then behind the old parking lot for Newsday and it wasn’t until I was older that I discovered it went all the way to Clinton Ave, where a small house stood on the opposite side of Clinton Ave. Strange I thought, that it would sit all alone on the opposite side of the street and such a busy street too. I discovered it when I was 13, and discovered it once again from a friend that told me it was a toll house left over from a highway built in the ‘30’s.

What’s so cool is we used that road all the time, I wonder if pieces of it are still there? I know the toll house is, I remember seeing it all the time, as we went up Clinton Ave to Old Country Rd.

I used to walk to Mitchell Filed too, to watch the radio Control airplanes as a boy fly on the old runways, I saw a Harrier Jump jet perform at an air show in the late ‘70’s at Mitchell Filed with my Mom and sisters, and I played hockey on early winter mornings in a hanger at Mitchell filed when I was 17.

I knew the history of the area, but only now do I realize the significance, and how rich a history that lived in this part of Long Island. The Rainbow division Bivwacked at Mitchell field, and Garden City, before the moved out to France, my Grandfather being part of them. The monument is just next to the old unused train station on Clinton Ave in Garden City. Would War 2 aircraft were built at the old Pendeflex file factory along Steward Ave, and then flown out of Mitchell field. I live in Brooklyn now and play hockey at Floyd Bennet field, where at least some of the history of aircraft of generations ago has been preserved, and it seems as if at least some folks are caring for and preserving our past on Long Island, and that’s great to see.

From Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Around Roosevelt Field

I grew up in Mineola near a section of the Parkway. I stumbled upon your book at the barnes and Noble in Massapequa.

It is a wonderful resource and a tremendous piece of local history.

Congratulations on a wonderful piece of research and writing and for this fine website

From Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Around Roosevelt Field

Howard,

I enjoyed watching the video clip and thought that the sound track was very good.

Thanks for all your efforts,

Jerry

From Film "The Last Race for Old 16 and Joe Tracy?" (1946)