Vanderbilt Cup Races

What a beautiful vehicle to be added to your magnificent collection. Lots of luck and God Bless.

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

You have wonderfully taste for automobiles. Enjoy your Duesy for many years!!!!

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

Congratulations Howard and Roz Many smiles and miles

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

Wow, what a beautiful machine! I look forward for the opportunity to meet the “Duesey” in person.
Congratulations and continued good luck! Ernie ????

From The Howard & Roz Kroplick Collection: Updated January 9, 2025

I’m glad that Steve Lucas new the date because I only knew that it must have been before January 1, 1989, when the City of Greater New York became the five boroughs that we know today. The fact is that Queens County, as shown in the map, included the towns of Oyster Bay, North Hempstead, and Hempstead (which became Nassau County in 1899), as well as Flushing, Jamaica, Newtown, and Long Island City (which was a city, just as Glen Cove and Long Beach are the only two cities in Nassau County today). Each town in Queens County voted (at least those who were permitted to vote) in 1897 as to whether it would join the new City of Greater New York; Oyster Bay, North Hempstead, and Hempstead opted out. The voters of the City of Brooklyn, which had already annexed all of the towns in Kings County, barely voted to join, which is where I was born in ‘48 and had it in for the “City” while growing up in Fresh Meadows, Flushing. Indeed, even though I’m now living in AZ, in the middle of nowhere and only go back to LI every other month to visit, I vehemently object and take offense to the derogatory term “Outer Boroughs.” Oh? The “Outer Borough” of Queens where JFK and LaG are located? Where two World’s Fairs were held? Where the Mets had its home after moving from the Polo Grounds in ‘64 to Shea, never again to return to the “City”? The “Outer Borough” of the Bronx, where the Bronx Zoo and NY Botantical Garden are located? Or the “Outer Boroughs” of Brooklyn and Staten Island, home to the Verrazanoa, at one time the longest suspension bridge in the world? Home to the Bklyn Academy of Music, Prospect Park, the world renowned Brooklyn Museum, and much more? As far as I’m concerned, the expression “Outer Boroughs” is a slur that should not be spoken.

From Mystery Friday Foto #31 Solved: An 1884 Long Island Rail Road Flyer

Congratulations on your acquisition.  Duesenberg was the Bugatti Chiron of its day.  Enjoy your new car every day!

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

Wow, Howard, a Duesenberg. Surely the best of the best. I look forward to seeing it in person. Congrats!!!!

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

Really glad to see that one of Charlie’s cars found a really great new home.  Congrats on a terrific buy .

From The Howard & Roz Kroplick Collection: Updated January 9, 2025

That’s a doozy Duesy!  Can’t wait to read about this car’s history.  Is it in anyway connected to any other cars in your collection?

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

Congratulations Howard! Great addition. She’s a beauty!

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

Congratulations! Enjoy!

From Update (1/5/2025): Duesenberg J Murphy Sedan Convertible Berline #2448 J-399

That’s an 1891 map / brochure created by the LIRR to promote real estate investment throughout Long Island. Apparently, the only ferry service was between Oyster Bay and Wilson’s Point, CT. There was no Port Jefferson Ferry or Orient Point Ferry. Also, Nassau County had not been established and the LIRR had not yet reached Montauk, terminating at Sag Harbor on the South Shore Branch.

From Mystery Friday Foto #31 Solved: An 1884 Long Island Rail Road Flyer

Hello, I wonder if you know the original people that bought the first 50, my grandfather was one of them, he was in Brooklyn and brought the car up to Ulster county New York, hit a deer and it screwed up the mechanism for the light, he must’ve searched for some help somewhere, now he passed away when I was six, in 1972 they sold the car and sent me to military school, I still have 100 shares of the stock, and a watch but really I would like to get some history on where the car is and anything about my grandfather thank you

From Documenting 1947 New York Region Tucker Sales and Dealerships

Thank you for the post. I wrote the article in 1972 based on interviews with family friend Ed Cantrell (JT Cantrell’s son). As stated, my first car was a 1948 Cantrell bodied Chevy I purchased from Pete Boller for 99.00 in 1965. I found it at Simpson’s boatyard in Centerport. I used that car for years. Driving to and from college in upstate NY and on surf trips up and down the east coast. It carried my Hawk surfboard on the roof and I slept in the back. I am 77 now and in my garage is a 1935 Ford Woody. Surfboard on the roof is now a Hobie.

From Long Island Auto Manufacturers & Body Builders #2: J.T. Cantrell & Company of Huntington Part I

Art, I believe the misnamed “Vanderbilt Road” is I.U. Willets Rd, today’s Horace Harding Blvd/Bates Rd/Little Neck Pkwy

From Kleiner's Korner: 100 Years Ago on the Motor Parkway (July, 1924)

Nuvolari’s winning Alfa Romeo was not the fastest car in the race, but the car better equipped to handle the challenging curves of the 1936 course

From Mystery Friday Foto #30 Solved: And the Award Goes to...Tazio Nuvolari in 1936

Howard:

The photo was taken on October 13, 1936 at the NYC Manhattan Ambassador Hotel during the prizegiving ceremony of the Vanderbilt Cup 1936 won by Tazio Nuvolari, Alfa Romeo 12C-1936. Nuvolari is on the right while George Vanderbilt is presenting the small permanent cup of the winner.

The small cup is today on display in the Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua (Italy). The large Vanderbilt Cup is on display in the Museo Nicolis in Villafranca di Verona (Italy).

Many thanks for showing the photo and for the always interesting newsletter.

All the best.

Aldo

Aldo Zana

From Mystery Friday Foto #30 Solved: And the Award Goes to...Tazio Nuvolari in 1936

What a marvelous collection of automobiles! Rolling sculptures.

From Hemmings.Com; Strolling the Lawn at the 2024 Misselwood Concours d’Elegance

Presentation of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race Trophy
October 12th, 1936
George Vanderbilt 1936 trophy, manufacturered by
Cartier
George Vanderbilt and Tazio Nuvozari
The trophy is in the Museo Micholis in Verona, Italy

From Mystery Friday Foto #30 Solved: And the Award Goes to...Tazio Nuvolari in 1936

Photo shows George Vanderbilt, on the left, presenting Tazio Nuvolari with Vanderbilt Cup Race Trophy, the winner of the Vanderbilt Cup Race held at in 1936 at Roosevelt Raceway. The reason this mystery photo was presented at this time was because it was found in the Domino’s Pizza Car recently acquired by Howard Kroplick.

From Mystery Friday Foto #30 Solved: And the Award Goes to...Tazio Nuvolari in 1936