Vanderbilt Cup Races

Marty Himes was the last survivor of the race-group photo hung at his home/museum. RIP Marty. Hoping you meet your competitors once again

From Highlights From the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society Meeting on Thursday, October 27, 2023

First time attending and found the whole evening captivating. And so emotionally impressed by my Son Gram’s tribute to Marty.

From Highlights From the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society Meeting on Thursday, October 27, 2023

Howard, thanks for talking to me at the LIMP meeting Thursday night. Regarding discussions the LIMP has had about updating the LIMP exhibit at the Vanderbilt Museum I gave you a draft of a proposed LIMP exhibit for the Museum. The pictures should all be familiar to you as they are taken from your books and this website. I have source information for each picture or drawing on in my files. I will get them to you as soon as I can. I hope this draft will be helpful to you.

From REMINDER: The Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society Meeting Today, October 26, 2023 at 7pm

The photographer is facing east at the intersection of North Hempstead turnpike (25a) and Jericho-Oysterbay road (route 106).  This intersection was part of both the 1906 and 1905 races.  The store on the right was McQueen’s store.  I’m still working on the make of the touring car.  I’ll post again if I figure it out.

From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A Pope-Toledo Touring Car at the East Norwich Turn on the 1906 Course

I have only been looking at this photo for seconds.  My instincts tell me this is most likely the turn at East Norwich.  Coming north on what is today Route 106.  Turning west onto 25A.

From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A Pope-Toledo Touring Car at the East Norwich Turn on the 1906 Course

We hope Marty is racing into heaven and gets the checkered flag RIP Marty It was an honor to get to know him

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

Thanks Marty for your contributions to LI automotive history and the Motor Parkway preservation efforts.  RIP!

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

I am so happy I got to meet Marty.  I was going to give him a call this weekend to plan my second visit ( since during my visit in the summer, Marty told me if I came back during the fall, he could show me around the entire museum), and when Greg informed me on Monday about Marty’s passing I almost could not believe it. Rest in peace, Marty.

and thanks, Brian, I plan on posting more photos from my past visit in memory to Marty soon on my Instagram - Hotrod_Crazy

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

on the dominos pizza mobile- their electric oven pizza is terrible compared to the great gas fired ny pizza oven pizza.

From Tucker 1044 gets Brand New Tucker Seat Covers

Those ? marks at the end of my above comment was meant to be a Headstone emoji

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

I never met the man, and wish I visited his museum. I noticed Grams IG post about Marty’s passing yesterday. May he RIP ????

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

I am related to Frank Croker , he is an Ancestor of mine ! .

From Driver Profile: Frank Croker (1878-1905)

Gram was there just a couple of weeks ago and was able to get my 1960’s Islip Speedway record signed by Marty.
Just an amazing guy. R.I.P. Marty

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

From Jerry and Rita Trapani

YES YES YES Long Island NEEDS this Go for it !!!!!! JeRita

From Greg O's Garage: Rare 1985 Domino Tritan A2 Pizza Delivery Vehicle Up For Auction in November

Wow! impressive event! However there’s an error by the organizer refering the Packard Predictor as a 1957 is wrong, it’s a 1956, In 1956 Richard Teague who was credited with the design, was head of Packard Division design of the Studebaker-Packard Corp. He had an associate who had help him with the design. In 1956, the Packard design staff was busy finishing off the all new for 1957 line up, but no funding for production.

From Highlights of Chrysler's Chrysler at the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival 2023

I think the race is the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 30, 1909. The racers are the #8 Alco and the #9 Chalmers-Detroit. I think we’re looking west along the LIMP in area a little east of the start-finish line. A few guesses for the black spots: dirt on the negative or observation dirigibles or entrants in a kite flying contest. I believe the racers are probably on the first or second lap since they started in numeric order and probably would not be that close again throughout the race.

From Mystery Friday Foto #42: Solved: The #8 ALCO Black Beast and the #9 Chalmers-Detroit Battling it Out in the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Wow! Some show! Thanks for sharing so many photos.

From Highlights of Chrysler's Chrysler at the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival 2023

Many years ago Domino’s wanted to open a location on my street. It received a lot of pushback from the community because of all the anticipated traffic caused by all the expected deliveries on the already crowded streets. They responded by equipping the store with a fleet of bicycles and when they first opened, you would see bikes running back and forth all day. Once the weather grew colder, the bikes disappeared and were replaced with mini vans. People felt that they had been duped by Domino’s but it really didn’t matter. Because there were already so many high quality pizza parlors in the neighborhood this Domino’s location was never very busy and it soon closed up and relocated. It would have been interesting to see one of these Tritan A2 delivery vehicles on my street but that never happened.

From Greg O's Garage: Rare 1985 Domino Tritan A2 Pizza Delivery Vehicle Up For Auction in November

Yes! Pizza party! (And an indirect tie-in to a Bugatti Royale)

From Greg O's Garage: Rare 1985 Domino Tritan A2 Pizza Delivery Vehicle Up For Auction in November

From Greg O.

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In races where the track is circular or oval, only left-handed turns are made so wider tires are placed on the right side of the car. In Christie’s case, wide tires had yet to be developed so it was necessary to add an entire extra wheel and tire to gain a larger tire contact patch.

From InstaGRAM Report: Peter Helck Vanderbilt Cup Races Paintings Part 2