Vanderbilt Cup Races

Howard, feel better soon!

These are such beautiful, amazing cars!

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Helck’s caption stating Jericho Tpke on the back of the photo.

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

Howard thank you for sharing and wishing you a quick and full recovery JeRita

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Thanks - great to see it working!

From Video: Watch the the center headlight of Tucker 1044

I only learned about them in the last couple decades, as I recall.  I finally found a car that I find as amazing as Packard, and in some ways, more so.  But then again, I don’t have a Tucker…

From Smithsonian Magazine (2009): The Cammack Collection-A rare look at Tucker Cars

Over time, lots of patents have been issued.  Some have turned out to be useful, a few, extremely useful.  And memorable.

My dad, who was a SAE member, would have enjoyed this article, and many others here.  He had his own impact on the auto industry in the 1950’s, designing car hauling trailers that were based on aeronautical engineering concepts - specifically a very strong, light framework, which greatly reduced the weight of such trailers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/carhaul/4088953465).

From Greg O's Garage; Joe Tracy's Patents

I think that might be the 1905 Locomobile being tested for that year’s Vanderbilt Cup Race. The three men in the photo could be Joe Tracy, A. L. Riker, and Al Poole. I’ll guess either Jericho Turnpike or Glen Cove Road for the road they’re on.

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

Howard,
Looks like it was an incredible event.  The cars are beautiful!  You must be exhausted.
Rog

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Get well Howard K.

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

Even though most of my interests with the Motor Parkway usually have to do with its route through Nassau County, I found this article quite interesting.  It’s nice to see that the Motor Parkway had some influence somewhere along it’s route for proposed development.  It gave motorists a more tolerable and enjoyable ride the further east you had to go.  If you had to travel from the city to parts of Queens or Nassau you could probably suck it up and bear the local roads if you had to, but going out further east was a more grueling endeavor in the early days of motoring.

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

Feel better, Howard

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

Cool information, Art. I grew up in Brentwood, about 40 years after the LIMP closed.

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

I’ve been a Tucker fan since I was 14 years old, and that was a long time ago.  Seeing one Tucker, usually in a museum, is a thrill.  Seeing FOUR Tuckers moving under their own power is a once in a lifetime experience.  The distinctive sound they make will rattle around in my head forever.  Thank you and all the owners of these incredible cars for sharing them with us.  Tuckerfest was an unforgettable weekend.  Best Wishes, Pete

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Looks like it was a great time.
Get well Howard !

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Very good article,
nice to read, enjoyable

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

It could be Guinea Woods Rd in Westbury looking north (today’s Glen Cove Rd). Just north of Old Country Rd. More research needed

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

This is the 1905 Locomobile prototype being tested for what I believe to be its possible entry into the 1905 Gordon Bennett race.  I believe it suffered from transmission problems and failed to enter that race.  In the picture is Joe Tracy, Al Poole and A.I. Riker.  Maybe they were using the same course where the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race and Elimination trials would be.  And with those telephone poles I’m going to throw out a guess and say that they are on I.U. Willets road.

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

‘Naked boy’, ‘Breast Feeding Mother’, ‘Kid in Underpants’, ‘Lady with uncovered backside’ circled in blue.

From Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”

Saw a Tucker as a ten year old in 1948 at a dealer in amityville n. y. too bad the car was never produced. real shame.

From Smithsonian Magazine (2009): The Cammack Collection-A rare look at Tucker Cars

This painting is apparently a tribute to the European racing heroes of the early 20th century. At the top we see a list of the important racing drivers and their car makes:
Jenatzy on Mercedes won the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup.
Lancia on Fiat won the 1904 Coppa Florio.
Gabriel on Mors won the 1903 Paris-Madrid race.
Wagner on Darracq won the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup.
Théry on Brasier won the 1904 and 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup.
Hémery on Darracq won the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup.
Duray on Lorraine-Dietrich won the 1906 Circuit des Ardennes.
Szisz on Renault won the 1906 Grand Prix de l’ACF.

Also on both sides and at the bottom text is written, but these are largely unreadable (probably showing more drivers with their car makes).

The whole scenery is partly fantasy, partly based on the 1907 Grand Prix de l’ACF, where these type of pedestrian bridges were used. Also on the lower left Durandal advertisements can be seen, which were placed along parts of the course in 1907. Durandal was a producer of anti-skid tire covers in these years.
However the cars are all older than 1907, and are not always ‘correct’ by number or appearance.

Jenatzy can be seen on the painting with the white 1903 Mercedes with no.4.
The car with no.5 must be a Turcat-Méry with its characteristic shark appearance, which competed in the 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup.
The red car with no.9 seems to be a 1904 Renault.
The car directly behind this with no.7 apparently is a 1904 Gobron-Brillié.
The blue car with no.12 is Duray’s 1906 Lorraine-Dietrich.
And then there is a white car in the distance, which could be a 1904 Hotchkiss.
Finally there are two normal cars on the right side of the painting, of which the blue one is a Panhard & Levassor.

The gentleman on the left of the photo with Peter Helck seems to be Joe Tracy.

From Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”