Vanderbilt Cup Races

From Robert R:
Chrysler looks beautiful, Howard.

The sad reality is that not a single person who gets to see the car will ever be aware of all of the amazingly skilled labor that went into the restoration.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

Re Sam’s comment, if the sphere shaped vanity at ear level is opened you find a beveled mirror inside - check previous posts to see the mirror and the date it was installed stenciled on the back. No view to the outside via these . Re Ken’s comment - yes the work is progressing very fast for all that had to be corrected or in fact recreated due to the poor condition of the structural wood and metal that came in contact with it. The skill level of the fellows that work in the shop, as well as their genuine enthusiasm for such an unusual car is what is making this work so well. From May 1st on they go into a work schedule that is minimum 6 days a week sometimes 7. No compromise on level of quality.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

The progress is great, might seem slow and tedious at times, but that is expected
when aiming for perfection. Great job, am anxiously waiting for completion.
Can’t make Pebble Beach, hope to see it sometime in the North East.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

Howard, you have done it again, this time, restoring the once beautiful Chryslers Chrysler to its beauty today!  Please stay well, sorry you are a Mets fan, but we all can’t be right….just kidding, they are playing better than the Yankees…........

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

this is the bridge over colonial springs road in deer park/Wyandanch looking east.

From Mystery Foto #69 Solved: The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge over Colonial Springs Road

Parkway Bridge over Ruland Road.

From Mystery Foto #69 Solved: The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge over Colonial Springs Road

Great narrative of the facinating process. 
Actually being done quite fast as restorations go.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

Man, that looks like a lot of work! And coming along beautifully. Hey, the driver’s side center speed streak looks a little off! The passenger’s is ok.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

Those aren’t Jaguars!  Now THIS is a Jaguar:

  http://sbiii.com/b-uattwn/iii1/pix/48jaguar.jpg

(once my everyday car - ca. 1954-56)!

Sam, III

From Jaguars Visit the Black Beast

WOW!  You just might win First in Show at the Beach!  Love that Imperial 8 engine; it’s the same as I had in my ‘31 Imperial CG.  As to your so-called “rear seat vanity” and “decorative rear speed streaks just behind doors on the quarter panel”, as I recall the car, those hid “hidey-holes” that allowed Mrs. C. to peek out without being seen.  Sam, III

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

At first I “knew” it was the underpass made to allow construction materials for Levittown to pass under the LIMP RoW.  Then I read on and, obviously, it predates any such.  This makes me wonder, however, just what am I remembering.  There WAS an underpass for that purpose, but under what RoW, and where?  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #68 Solved: A Motor Parkway Culvert in the Hempstead Plains (Levittown)

Beautiful work.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

super

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Howard,
All I can say is MAGNIFICENT!  You must be incredibly proud.
Roger

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

Howard-Now that I got your response , the photos will be sent tomorrow and they were taken on 5/21. It’s official, I’ll e-mail you photos when I have them

From Pilot Section of the Motor Parkway Trail Is Under Construction in East Meadow(Updated:June 17, 2014)

This looks like the Motor Parkway bridge on Colonial Springs Road in Wheatley Heights, Wyandanch when I was growing up. There is now a shopping strip and post office across the street and a VFW Hall on the east side of the former bridge. There was also a Motor Parkway bridge which ran across Little East Neck Road just north of Colonial Springs Road in what I knew as Wyandanch. Both bridges were razed by the Town of Babylon in the early 1960s. I wish you would show photos of the Vanderbilt estate in Wheatley Heights, now known as Madonna Heights School for Girls
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From Howard Kroplick:

I will research the Madonna Heights School property and post it later this week.

From Mystery Foto #69 Solved: The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge over Colonial Springs Road

It’s seems like a never ending job, but it’s getting there, slowly but surely ,piece by piece and at he end it will be well worth the long wait, for this work of excellence.

From Chrysler's Chrysler Chronicle X: Countdown to Pebble Beach-Three Months

The Colonial Springs Road bridge in Wheatley Heights

From Mystery Foto #69 Solved: The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge over Colonial Springs Road

I’ve come across this photo in the past. It’s the LIMP traveling. over Colonial Springs Rd in Wheatly Heights.  Pretty sure this photo is from the 1960’s, looking west ; I think.

From Mystery Foto #69 Solved: The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge over Colonial Springs Road

Colonial Springs Road Parkway Bridge

From Mystery Foto #69 Solved: The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge over Colonial Springs Road