Vanderbilt Cup Races

From Hugh:
Hi Howard, The car in the photo could be a 1926 or 1927 Chrysler 70 sedan [no real change]

Likely taken in 1927 with Park Way permit plate good into 1928.  In 1928 Chrysler changed the fenders to the clam shell style like 1930 Model A Ford used. If it is in 1927 might be Charles Lindbergh related.

Same birth date?

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Thanks,  Ted.  Took a bit of searching to find that pic.  The car is actually the same as in the picture following mine.  Just facing the other way as the doorway and large bay window are the same just reversed!  Howard, where was the second picture found?

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Hi LIMP’ers:

  Most of you missed the ID of the car.  The New York License plate on the car-
see number 14-39 is an official plate.  The auto is probably some person high
up on the chain such as a Commissioner of something.  Side note:  Growing up
in Amityville NY,  the police department had 3 patrol cars and their plate numbers were:  44-16, 44-17 and 44-18…..Ron Ridolph

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Fantastic historical aviation story here guys. Keep ‘em comin’!

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

A lot of good answers, especially Art Kleiner, with the picture

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Happy Birthday Howard! Another good mystery here. Totally guessing it’s Charles Lindbergh in a 1928 Bentley in L.I.C. Queens. Looks like the frame work for the Queensboro Bridge (Ed Koch Bridge) in the back. They’re heading to Queens Blvd (Hoffman Blvd) towards the Motor Pkwy western terminus to end the ride at the Aviation Club in the Hempstead plains. It’s 1930. Stumped again. :p

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

A very tough one coming up with anything on this photo!

Going on guesses and some of the obvious, I’ll go with it being a 1928 Chrysler. The connection to the LIMP would be the 1928 parkway plate on the grill. Lindbergh was the aviatoin ‘rockstar’ of that year, so might that be him in the car, (he’d need the plate for the trip to the Long Island Aviation Club no doubt!)

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Hate to rain on your parade but today’s Jericho Turnpike is in TWO towns there.  The westbound lanes are in Old Westbury and the eastbound in Westbury proper.  Not remembering how JT was widened, I have no clue where the actual RoW ran but old surveys should tie that in rather tightly, as should photos of the only surviving old house just south of the RoW and east of the finish line, which you showed on a very early blog.  Sam, III
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From Howard Kroplick I

Hi Sam, the sections of the villages of Old Westbury and Westbury north of Old Country Road and approximately west of Cantiague Road are all in the wonderful Town of North Hempstead including the grandstand location on Jericho Turnpike.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Hempstead,+NY/@40.7689166,-73.5881027,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c286a5e70e140d:0xabeaa59ad34ab6e4

From Video:"The Location of the Start/Finish Lines of the 1904 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races"

From the wingèd radiator cap and the unique downward-slanted upper bar of the bumper, it’s a 1927-28 Chrysler Imperial and it’s probably got Lindy in it.  Both the NYS license plate and the LIMP toll plate read 1928.  Happy Birthday, Howard!  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

If you think this news is exciting for Howard, just consider how deeply satisfying it is for me (after all these years)!  The proposal to Nassau County for conservation and restoration of the LIMP RoW was filed 15 Apr 2005!  I don’t even recall when we first started cutting brush - 1990?

Sam, III

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

Late 20s Chrysler

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

I can see you had a good time at the concert. You weren’t joking about singing Happy Birthday to you

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

After going to Touch a Truck Show, I checked out Salisbury Park Drive and saw how much more was done and took some pictures, thought maybe you would like to see the progress they made,  I’ll e-mail them to you if so, get in touch with me

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

From Brian McCarthy:

May 03 2014 brian d mccarthy 12:27 PM I’m reminded of this location where your standing in this picture, Howard. I remember patrolling the rear property for Lilco at the time in this area. That concrete structure your standing next to is what I came across. This area looked out of place, I had no idea it was an old cemetary. I’d like to participate in these cleanups, but I have a physical/neurological condition that’s quite a handicap. Watch out for the poison ivy. -

From 2014 North Hempstead Community Clean-Up Day of the Townsend Cemetery, East Hills

Would say the car is a 1928 Chrysler Model 72 based on the similarity to the picture shown here courtesy of conceptcarz.com.  http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/494121,9106/1928-Chrysler-Model-72_photo.aspx

Picture taken is 1928 as per the Motor Parkway Tag which connects it to the Motor Parkway.  Lots of police around the car - possibly a celebrity inside, Walter Chrysler himself maybe, or police chasing down a prohibition runner!. 
Bonus - happy birthday Howard!

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

You have done some tremendous research on this grand old road.  In the 1940s I rode many miles of this road by bicycle.  My favorite spot was a banked curve in a meadow that is now Glen Oaks Apartments..just North of Union Turnpike.  I wish I had taken photos!  I commend, applaud and admire you for your wonderful work to preserve the history of this very significant early road.  I was also well acquainted with the Petit Trianon building at Ronkonkoma..again..WISH I had taken pictures!!!  Thank you!

From Then & Now: Extant Structures on the Vanderbilt Cup Race Courses (Updated: 7/31/2019)

As for the year of the photo, I would say 1928, because of the license plate on top. I can’t read what it says at top of that plate. so can’t say it’s a LIMP one, but if it is, it would be the answer to how the car is associated LIMP. I can read the bottom plate, it’s N Y 11. Another thing, isn’t the LIMP plate usually on the left side of the front bumper?

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Just thought I’d mention, being that the Field of Wheels was postponed there’s a Touch a Truck Show at Eisenhower Park, check it out

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

Howard- Happy Birthday and have a great time at the concert, which you already on your way their

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler

Happy Birthday Howard.
The car is a 1928 Chrysler (not an Imperial but a smaller series), photo was taken in 1928 judging by the Motor Parkway plate and the license plate. Have no idea who , or what the event, but viewing all the police and the low number on the plate it has to be a big shot .

From Mystery Foto #67 Solved: The First East-West Transatlantic Flyers Arrive in NYC in a 1928 Chrysler