Vanderbilt Cup Races

I just got these I was wondering how much they was worth

From Mystery Foto #29 Partially Solved: A Homan Motor Vehicle Trophy Owned by Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

I just got these I was wondering how much they was worth

From Mystery Foto #29 Partially Solved: A Homan Motor Vehicle Trophy Owned by Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Thanks Sam, I’m in Leland (Compass Pointe), outside of Wilmington.  I share your sentiments about NC!

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 1 - The Vanderbilt Connection and the Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State - North Carolina

Thanks, guys for the great conversations! Hope to be at the Motor Parkway Preservation Society meet at the Bethpage IF AND WHEN IT RESUME??

From Mystery Friday Foto #6 Solved: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. visiting Lynhurst in Tarrytown in his 1912 Simplex Toy Tonneau in1970

I owned a 1937 Chrysler Custom Imperial with overdrive.I purchased it for a chauffer who got it from his employer. I was 19 at the time and my friends spread the rumor that I was a gangster. I had a lot of enjoyment from that car.

From The 1937 Chrysler Automatic Overdrive

Hi klenier
Ok so where do you live? I,m in Wilmington the north end Porter neck, it is nice that someone else from LI, lives here and likes the Vanderbilt’s and the wilmington area. Looking forward to reading your blog about NC ,interesting information ,I like history. I have lived here for 11years after we retired from working on LI, for 45 years. Love it there, and the taxes are so low.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 1 - The Vanderbilt Connection and the Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State - North Carolina

Mystery Foto #7… The auto in the photo is a 1912 ALCO 12, 4 cylinder Touring Car. And of course ALCOs won the Vanderbilt Cup at least twice.
The driver of the Mystery car is Dick Hovey.
Passenger, Kathleen Carson, former Miss Donedin, Florida

From Mystery Friday Foto #7 Solved: A 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car driven by Dick Hovey

Thanks Tom.  What part of NC are you in?  I’m outside of Wilmington.  By the way, there’s a book that was published in 1990 by Robert E. Ireland titled “Entering the Auto Age - The Early Automobile in North Carolina, 1900 - 1930”.  Its 32 years old, but you might find it interesting.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 4 -The Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State (North Carolina)

Thanks for the State of North Carolina automotive history lesson. Departing Long Island nearly 40 years ago to pursue a career in the auto racing industry in the South, I am also a resident of N.C. Learning about its automotive history is intriguing. Thank you.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 4 -The Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State (North Carolina)

1912 dark blue 6 cylinder ALCO.  This car did not race in Vanderbilt Race but it’s younger brother did and won.

From Mystery Friday Foto #7 Solved: A 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car driven by Dick Hovey

Nice job artie! great information, miss you both!

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 4 -The Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State (North Carolina)

I’ve probably seen it then.  I’m a fan of Jenny’s - they were so important in early aviation.  Next time I go to COA I’ll have to look for the truck.

From Mystery Friday Foto #6 Solved: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. visiting Lynhurst in Tarrytown in his 1912 Simplex Toy Tonneau in1970

I was actually hanging out in what’s left of that on/off ramp yesterday.  A friend of mine brought a shovel and un-earthed some pavement.  Most of it is still there and under topsoil.

Here’s a pic with Temple Chai Center in the background.

From CSI Report: Anatomy of a Rare Motor Parkway Dix Hills Photo

That looks like a 1912 ALCO Convertible Touring. Not sure, but I think a certain Long Island collector owns a 1909 ALCO Racer that won the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cups. The driver in the photo is Dick Hovey.

From Mystery Friday Foto #7 Solved: A 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car driven by Dick Hovey

That Jenny bi plane was and may still be at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Mitchell Field, it has been a while since I have gone there. It was restored by the L.I. Early Fliers Club members in the basement of the house of George Dade in Glen Head . Many of the people who worked on it were former employees of Grumman and Republic aviation out in Bethpage.
At the same museum is a great FULTON truck made in Farmingdale that Al Velocci bought the remains of and restored!

From Mystery Friday Foto #6 Solved: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. visiting Lynhurst in Tarrytown in his 1912 Simplex Toy Tonneau in1970

I’d have liked to see that hanging!

From Mystery Friday Foto #6 Solved: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. visiting Lynhurst in Tarrytown in his 1912 Simplex Toy Tonneau in1970

Why would the pile of dirt blocking passage underneath the trestle in the 1955 photo have been removed by the 1964 photo?  It wasn’t there in 1971 either.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Brewster Aircraft I do not know, the Brewster plant in Long Island City at the east end of the 59th St Bridge had assorted use over the years immediately after the car operations there ceased. I am an automotive historian not an aviation historian but for some years belonged to the L.I. Early Fliers Club about 45 years ago when we hung the Lindberg Curtiss Jenny bi plane from the rafters at Roosevelt Field mall at the north east corner at 2 am for a display. all of that taking place when it was about 20 degrees out with a stiff wind and we had to unload the disassembled plane and carry it into the building.

From Mystery Friday Foto #6 Solved: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. visiting Lynhurst in Tarrytown in his 1912 Simplex Toy Tonneau in1970

I’d enjoy such a program.  Question - Brewster Aircraft - what was it’s connection to the coach builders?  My father worked for BA for the early part of WW2 - mid 1941 for a couple years until he chose to give up his deferment and enlist (he was an aeronautical engineer).  He spent the rest of the war at a mysterious place in Oak Ridge.  All kidding aside, he never told us what he worked on there.

From Mystery Friday Foto #6 Solved: Henry Austin Clark, Jr. visiting Lynhurst in Tarrytown in his 1912 Simplex Toy Tonneau in1970

Lee, The Meadow Brook Club didn’t offer membership to Mitchel Field officers during the war but did allow them to play for free. I think that came about because “Captain”  Bobby Jones, the famed amateur golfer, reported to Mitchel Field for duty at the time. Enlisted personnel at Mitchel Field were also allowed at the club…but only if they volunteered as caddies.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow