Vanderbilt Cup Races

I spoke with Mr. Burnstein that is running the Sands Point Guggenheim Museum show. He said it was canceled and rescheduled for Monday September 18, 5 to 8 pm

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Art, thanks! I knew it was somewhere here 😉

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

Ariejan, here is the link to my post which includes the information about the accident involving Charles and Caroline Decker Fair in France.  It was included in a post on March 10, 2020 about Al Poole’s letters to family members, one of which referenced the accident.

https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/kleiners_kolumn_al_poole_letters_from_home

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

Fascinating.  I wonder if he could have imagined how overcrowded and run down Long Island roads would become?

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

The brother-in-law William Vanderbilt is referring to was Charles L(ewis) Fair, who would die on August 14, 1902, together with his wife Caroline Decker Fair (born Smith) in a horrific car accident in Normandy, France. I thought the accident was described in one of the posts in this blog, but I couldn’t find it?

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

And a few more articles - all are from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle between 1902 and 1911.

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

Lee - I’m not sure of the specific members of the Meadowbrook Colony of which the article refers but here are some articles with names associated with the Colony which was centered around the Meadowbrook Club.  Mainly the polo and fox hound set in and around Hempstead and Westbury.  Such as the Hitchcocks, Ladenburgs, Kernochan, Belmonts, etc.

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

Being in the old car hobby most of my life I find it strange not to have heard of these wonderful machines before now. I have heard of Amedee Bollee in reference to other early vehicles. They are truly ground-breaking. I wonder if any more of them survive.

From Greg O's Garage; From the Peter Helck Collection; Strange and Unusual cars #4- The 1873 L'Obéissante

Mystery Foto #22…The race car is the #1 Locomobile as driven by Joe Florida with mechanician Leonard M. Travis. This car was entered in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 24. The location was the Motor Parkway in Nassau County.The car finished in third place in the event. Sadly, it was involved in a crash with a Touring car at or near the finish line.

From Mystery Friday Foto #22 Solved: #1 Locomobile at the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race pits

Anyone remember the exhibit at AACA a few years back?  We saw it on our way to Pittsburgh for a family event.  I’m wondering how much that exhibit and this one have in common other than, as I recall the chassis.

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Great article.  It occurs to me as I read about early automobiles, that it seems really crazy for the Wright brothers (and others, less effectively) to think about taking an internal combustion engine up in the air when they could barely reliably travel across the ground.  When I think further, one of the major problems for early automobiles was the condition and maintenance of roads.  Perhaps the Wright brothers were trying to avoid all that infrastructure by going above it?

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

That’s the #1 Locomobile racer at the pits in the Hempstead Plains (Levittown) during the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race. The driver is Jim Florida with Leonard M. Travis as the mechanician. The date is October 24, 1908. Florida finished third in the race but at the end unavoidably crashed into spectator David Shuh breaking his leg. Shuh had irresponsibly ventured out onto the course. Florida also hit a private vehicle on the course but there were no reported injuries to the driver or two passengers.

From Mystery Friday Foto #22 Solved: #1 Locomobile at the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race pits

Art,

Who were the ‘Meadowbrook Colony members’ mentioned in the article?

Thanks.

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

I believe the 1902 Automobile Topics map proposed to have the speedway connect Manhattan to Roslyn via the Queensborough bridge in Long Island City, not Brooklyn? The Queensborough bridge opened Mar 30, 1909

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1902 Interview with Willie K.

Montague Roberts was at the museum that same evening for the cocktail party. Southampton photographer, Irving Cantor, took this photo of him in the Thomas Flyer with the HAC Jr family, but he does not appear to be in the photo out front with the helicopter.

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: Celebrating the opening of the Long Island Automotive Museum on August 27, 1948

Howard, Could one of the unidentified men be Montague Roberts ?  He won the 1908 around the world race in the Thomas Flyer that Clarke ended up owing,

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: Celebrating the opening of the Long Island Automotive Museum on August 27, 1948

What a GREAT story and photos! Thought you’d like this link from 2012 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2vfDt6yVlM

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I agree with Steve Lucas, #14 the young boy has Austin Clark’s features. Lester Cutting, I’ve seen his name linked to past images of the LIMP. He must’ve done his own explorations and documented the LIMP like we do now.

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: Celebrating the opening of the Long Island Automotive Museum on August 27, 1948

Marty - My lovely wife Fran (of 42 years now!) and I still treasure the 2 reunions we performed at for you, and in between all my doctor appointments would like to come visit you on either a Friday or a Sunday ( Maybe even for breakfast like Johnny Coy did!!).  I’ll contact you!  We hope you are staying well.

Fran & Al Woods

From Update July 20 2021: A visit to see Marty Himes and the Himes Museum of Automobile Nostagia

The celebration and its location: The opening of the Long Island Automotive Museum at the museum in Southampton, NY

The date: August 27, 1948

Who likely hired the helicopter: Art Peck

The automobile: 1910 Buick Model 10

Best guesses for some of the individuals:
#5 Dorothy Hopping
#7 Norris Hopping
#10 Alfred Momo
#11 Bill Spear
#18 Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
#19 Ann Clark
#24 George Duryea
#25 Alec Ulmann
#27 Ken Purdy

The museum was always a favorite place to go during summer stays at my grandparents. Still have all the postcards that I bought at the gift shop…including two of my favorites cars, the 1911 Mercer 35 and the Ferrari 166 ( 004C ). Also have one of a 1966 Lotus Elan owned by James H. Clark.

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: Celebrating the opening of the Long Island Automotive Museum on August 27, 1948