Vanderbilt Cup Races

It would be nice to see it continue west across the park to Merrick Avenue, and somehow follow the path over the curvy old Newbridge Avenue bridge spot.

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

Keep it coming. I’m going to get a little bit of car memories on Saturday at Demonstration Day at Simeone Automotive Museum, calling it Pantheons of Style, which includes 6 cars being driven around outside, what a day that will be.

From Memorable Moments From The 2014 Brickyard Invitational

From Donald Davidson (Historian, Indianapolis Motor Speedway):

Re your photo quiz:  I would say no way to that being Resta, and it isn’t Strang or Chandler either.  DD

From Mystery Foto #70 Still A Mystery: Is this Dario Resta?

I hav’nt been able to be out this way.  Has anyone been around the grandstand area recently? Has Josato Inc finished their house building?

From In Search of the Grandstand, Press Box/Officials Stand and Pits in Levittown

I’m still sticking with my answer

From Mystery Foto #70 Still A Mystery: Is this Dario Resta?

The picture cannot be Dario Resta because Resta has a widows peak hairline and the unknown gentleman in the picture has a straight hairline. This is genetically determined.

From Mystery Foto #70 Still A Mystery: Is this Dario Resta?

Howard,

Mazel Tov!!!!

Roger

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Thanks for all the suggestions.

From Mystery Foto #70 Still A Mystery: Is this Dario Resta?

Louis chevrolet at the Indy museum

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Eddie Rickenbacker

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Looks like Louis Chevrolet. Don’t know where it might be.

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

My dad, Dick Ridgely of Ridgely’s Steak restaurant, held race registration at the restaurant and proudly displayed the Vanderbilt cup… I met Jim Hall and Hap Sharp… I was only 13 and many another well known racers of the era… I remember the days of the the Bridgehampton race track… my last race I attended was in 1969…

From Video "The 1965 Vanderbilt Cup Race at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit"

Howard,
Great photos!!! Wish I could have made it to the 1st Brickyard Vintage Racing event, maybe next year. I will be at the Laguna Seca Raceway Vintage Races in August, will you and the Black Beast be attending ?
Best regards,
Wayne Carroll Petersen
Barney Oldfield Great Great Nephew
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From Howard Kroplick

I will be at Pebble Beach with the 1937 Chrysler’ Chrysler.

From Los Angeles Times: "At Indy course, vintage race cars take you on a roll down memory lane"

Louis Chevrolet Memorial at the entrance to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.  Chevrolet participated in more Vanderbilt Cup Races than any other driver (1905, 1908, 1909 &1910;) as noted on Howard’s blog.  Also started at Indy in 1915, 1916, 1919 & 1920.  1920 was his best finish (3rd).

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Joe Tracy. Bust located in Bethpage on the Ground Breaking Ceremony site (June 6, 1908)

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

A toughie. Resta has a near identical nose but the chin dimple and different shaped head from most of his photos may eliminate him. But then, I believe the mystery image is a portrait painting and not a photo leaving room for some error (unlikely). Every search attempt on this including Resta’s cousin Harry Yarnell has left my fuel tank empty.

From Mystery Foto #70 Still A Mystery: Is this Dario Resta?

I would say Louis Chevrolet

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

That looks like Louis Chevrolet watching all the racing fans as they enter the Speedway Museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

This past week I received 3 phone calls from Motor Parkway buffs asking if I could contibute anything to the Vanderbilt-mistress-Bagatelle imbroglio. This is what I got. In June of 1909 the Long Island Motor Parkway purchased a 238 plus acre farm in the Half Hollow Hills section of Huntington Town from Charles M. Reve that stretched from the westside of Bagatelle Rd. to the eastside of Burr’s Lane.  The Parkway used only 11.718 acres of the Reve property for the Parkway’s R.O.W.. In 1910 the Parkway sold an 11 plus acre section of the Reve property , on both sides of Burr’s Lane, to a “D S Bronson”  The definitive “Country Homes and their Architects” published by SPLIA,  credits today’s Madonna Heights School to a” Mrs. D. Brownsard” and she called her home, Bagatelle.  c. 1910. Parkway enthusiasts know all to well that the William K. Vanderbilt Jr. name is often used inter-changeably with the Motor Parkway. Perhaps early on somebody decided to add a little spice to a mundane and routine real estate transaction. Al Velocci

From Was the "Bagatelle" Mansion in Half Hollow Hills Built by a Vanderbilt?

  Howard- Give me a break, will ya ha?

From Mystery Foto #71 Solved: A Bust of Louis Chevrolet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway