Vanderbilt Cup Races

I’ll be there representing Late Model American Muscle.  Had a great time last year - only hope it is as good!

Cheers!  Phil King

From Update on Second Annual Vanderbilt Autocross and Concours on Sunday, July 26th

Now, all you need to do is find the lyrics!

From Hear and See the 1906 Broadway Musical "The Vanderbilt Cup"

This was a great find today in my inbox. You see when I was a little boy, about 11 or 12 years old I moved to Garden City. I lived on Chestnut Street and I used to walk to Roosevelt Field to go to the Mall. I found a short cut with my friends; it was along a semi-paved section of road, just behind a school. It was overgrown with trees that led to the corner of the mall. We took it for years…it’s behind Steward Ave School, then behind a small Park, then behind the old parking lot for Newsday and it wasn’t until I was older that I discovered it went all the way to Clinton Ave, where a small house stood on the opposite side of Clinton Ave. Strange I thought, that it would sit all alone on the opposite side of the street and such a busy street too. I discovered it when I was 13, and discovered it once again from a friend that told me it was a toll house left over from a highway built in the ‘30’s.

What’s so cool is we used that road all the time, I wonder if pieces of it are still there? I know the toll house is, I remember seeing it all the time, as we went up Clinton Ave to Old Country Rd.

I used to walk to Mitchell Filed too, to watch the radio Control airplanes as a boy fly on the old runways, I saw a Harrier Jump jet perform at an air show in the late ‘70’s at Mitchell Filed with my Mom and sisters, and I played hockey on early winter mornings in a hanger at Mitchell filed when I was 17.

I knew the history of the area, but only now do I realize the significance, and how rich a history that lived in this part of Long Island. The Rainbow division Bivwacked at Mitchell field, and Garden City, before the moved out to France, my Grandfather being part of them. The monument is just next to the old unused train station on Clinton Ave in Garden City. Would War 2 aircraft were built at the old Pendeflex file factory along Steward Ave, and then flown out of Mitchell field. I live in Brooklyn now and play hockey at Floyd Bennet field, where at least some of the history of aircraft of generations ago has been preserved, and it seems as if at least some folks are caring for and preserving our past on Long Island, and that’s great to see.

From Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Around Roosevelt Field

I grew up in Mineola near a section of the Parkway. I stumbled upon your book at the barnes and Noble in Massapequa.

It is a wonderful resource and a tremendous piece of local history.

Congratulations on a wonderful piece of research and writing and for this fine website

From Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Around Roosevelt Field

Howard,

I enjoyed watching the video clip and thought that the sound track was very good.

Thanks for all your efforts,

Jerry

From Film "The Last Race for Old 16 and Joe Tracy?" (1946)

Forget Willy K - Let’s here it for Krocky, but Ros has Star Quality!

From Off-Topic: Film "Krocky" (1977)

Robert, I purchased a bunch of piano rolls that included the music from “The Vanderbilt Cup”.  There is a service that converts them to a CD if you allow them to be placed in a library and available on the Internet:

http://members.shaw.ca/paud122/batch24.htm
http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/archive.htm

From Hear and See the 1906 Broadway Musical "The Vanderbilt Cup"

From Robert R:

LOVE the music, Howard! But the question is:  where did you find a player piano? Just terrific!

From Hear and See the 1906 Broadway Musical "The Vanderbilt Cup"

Thomas Mc:
There are only four known non-restored and restored racers of the 118 cars that participated in the Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island; the 1904 Pope-Toledo, the 1906 Darracq, 1906 Locomobile, and the 1909 Alco.

Walter:
I really appreciate your comment and also thank you again for providing the Jubilee 16-mm films. I will post the Breese photo tomorrow.

Enjoy,

Howard

From Film "The Last Race for Old 16 and Joe Tracy?" (1946)

Great job Howard!  Bob Breese would have loved the clip.  I have sent you a photo of the Breese “Special” which he often brought to meets years ago. He kept updating the car from 1911 to 1944 and had both years on the side of the car!  Regards,  Walter

From Film "The Last Race for Old 16 and Joe Tracy?" (1946)

The “Old 16” clip was great. I wonder how many of those classics are around today?

From Film "The Last Race for Old 16 and Joe Tracy?" (1946)

Interesting series, Howard.

From Then & Now: The Hairpin Turn in Old Westbury

Who was the driver of the #9 car in the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race? This may be the same car in the cover photo of Automobile Racing, Fifth Edition, by Ray F. Kuns.

From The Great Tazio Nuvolari in the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race

If I remember correctly, the Locomobile factory was in Bridgeport, Connecticut. I grew up in Bridgeport and one could see the factory from Seaside Park, which boarded Long Island Sound. The last I head it was a shirt factory. I moved away from Bridgeport in 1951, so I don’t know if that factory building is still standing.

From Joe Tracy and Old 16's Last Great Victory

It seems unusual that there was a limit on the max weight. If there are weight limits, they are usually minimum weights.

From The Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer that Never Raced

PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST THANK YOU -IZZY

From Original Survey Maps of the Long Island Motor Parkway Discovered!

Hi Todd:

I will send you my best photos of the Mulford’s Lozier in the Vanderbilt Cup Race; he finished 10th in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race and won the 1911 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

Enjoy,

Howard

From The Magnificent 1910 Lozier

Hi Klaus:

You can find the registration on the home page and this link: http://races.pmhclients.com/images/uploads/REGISTRATION_FORM_ROOSEVELT_2009.pdf

Howard

From 2009 Vanderbilt Centennial Events

Hi Mark:

I always thought it was Carl Fisher. It is likely the driver was George Weidley who designed the car.

Howard

From The Premier Vanderbilt Cup Racer that Never Raced

Hi David:

Thanks for the comment. My collection includes about eight original music sheets from the “The Vanderbilt Cup” musical.

Howard

From Hear the Star of the Broadway Musical "Vanderbilt Cup" Sing!