Vanderbilt Cup Races

Get well Howard K.

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

Even though most of my interests with the Motor Parkway usually have to do with its route through Nassau County, I found this article quite interesting.  It’s nice to see that the Motor Parkway had some influence somewhere along it’s route for proposed development.  It gave motorists a more tolerable and enjoyable ride the further east you had to go.  If you had to travel from the city to parts of Queens or Nassau you could probably suck it up and bear the local roads if you had to, but going out further east was a more grueling endeavor in the early days of motoring.

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

Feel better, Howard

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

Cool information, Art. I grew up in Brentwood, about 40 years after the LIMP closed.

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

I’ve been a Tucker fan since I was 14 years old, and that was a long time ago.  Seeing one Tucker, usually in a museum, is a thrill.  Seeing FOUR Tuckers moving under their own power is a once in a lifetime experience.  The distinctive sound they make will rattle around in my head forever.  Thank you and all the owners of these incredible cars for sharing them with us.  Tuckerfest was an unforgettable weekend.  Best Wishes, Pete

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Looks like it was a great time.
Get well Howard !

From Update: Highlights From the Tucker 75th Anniversary Celebration at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum

Very good article,
nice to read, enjoyable

From Kleiner's Korner: The Motor Parkway Kiosk That Doubled as a Realty Office

It could be Guinea Woods Rd in Westbury looking north (today’s Glen Cove Rd). Just north of Old Country Rd. More research needed

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

This is the 1905 Locomobile prototype being tested for what I believe to be its possible entry into the 1905 Gordon Bennett race.  I believe it suffered from transmission problems and failed to enter that race.  In the picture is Joe Tracy, Al Poole and A.I. Riker.  Maybe they were using the same course where the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race and Elimination trials would be.  And with those telephone poles I’m going to throw out a guess and say that they are on I.U. Willets road.

From Mystery Friday Foto #25 Solved: The 1905 Locomobile Being Tested

‘Naked boy’, ‘Breast Feeding Mother’, ‘Kid in Underpants’, ‘Lady with uncovered backside’ circled in blue.

From Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”

Saw a Tucker as a ten year old in 1948 at a dealer in amityville n. y. too bad the car was never produced. real shame.

From Smithsonian Magazine (2009): The Cammack Collection-A rare look at Tucker Cars

This painting is apparently a tribute to the European racing heroes of the early 20th century. At the top we see a list of the important racing drivers and their car makes:
Jenatzy on Mercedes won the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup.
Lancia on Fiat won the 1904 Coppa Florio.
Gabriel on Mors won the 1903 Paris-Madrid race.
Wagner on Darracq won the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup.
Théry on Brasier won the 1904 and 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup.
Hémery on Darracq won the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup.
Duray on Lorraine-Dietrich won the 1906 Circuit des Ardennes.
Szisz on Renault won the 1906 Grand Prix de l’ACF.

Also on both sides and at the bottom text is written, but these are largely unreadable (probably showing more drivers with their car makes).

The whole scenery is partly fantasy, partly based on the 1907 Grand Prix de l’ACF, where these type of pedestrian bridges were used. Also on the lower left Durandal advertisements can be seen, which were placed along parts of the course in 1907. Durandal was a producer of anti-skid tire covers in these years.
However the cars are all older than 1907, and are not always ‘correct’ by number or appearance.

Jenatzy can be seen on the painting with the white 1903 Mercedes with no.4.
The car with no.5 must be a Turcat-Méry with its characteristic shark appearance, which competed in the 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup.
The red car with no.9 seems to be a 1904 Renault.
The car directly behind this with no.7 apparently is a 1904 Gobron-Brillié.
The blue car with no.12 is Duray’s 1906 Lorraine-Dietrich.
And then there is a white car in the distance, which could be a 1904 Hotchkiss.
Finally there are two normal cars on the right side of the painting, of which the blue one is a Panhard & Levassor.

The gentleman on the left of the photo with Peter Helck seems to be Joe Tracy.

From Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”

The gentleman sure looks like Joe Tracy so I’ll go with Joe as my guess. The title of the painting is “A Motor Race on the Continent in the Early Days” although I’ve also seen it referred to as “Speed Demons of 1904”. According to the 2006 Gooding & Company Pebble Beach catalog, “Along with the speeding cars, the artist has slipped in some sly humor as well. Can you spot the naked boy, the breast-feeding mother, the kid in underpants, and the lady with the uncovered backside?” I think that’s why the painting is special. The race cars are: Mercedes, DeDietrich, Mors, Hotchkiss, and Richard-Brasier. Also, along the right border is a Panhard-Levassor fixed-top touring car.

From Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!

From Greg O's Garage; Joe Tracy's Patents

Dear Greg, I hope you haven’t taken the lashes yet, because in the end it appears that we are all correct! I was triggered by your remark that the Yellow Jacket and the Wasp were developed from about the same time.  In The Horseless Age of March 30, 1910 the official name for this new Marmon is said to be ‘Yellow Jacket’, but from May the name ‘Wasp’ was used. In The Motor World of March 31, 1910 and other issues of that magazine that year the name ‘Yellow Jacket’ is never mentioned, but only the name ‘Wasp’. What I suspect is the following: possibly the official name was the “Yellow Jacket’, but because of the combination of the yellow color and the wasp-like tail undoubtedly the car received very soon the nickname ‘Wasp’, which was subsequently (and almost directly) taken over as official name.

From Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Yellow Jacket'

From Greg O.
Ariejan-
You are correct. This was my error and take responsibility. It has been corrected. As it turns out, the Yellow Jacket and Wasp were in development around the same time and I should have noticed the differences in the cowl area in my haste to put up the photo. I will accept my 50 lashes for my faux pas.

https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/news-multimedia/news/2020/07/10/famous-marmon-wasp-designed-for-speed-from-the-start

From Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Yellow Jacket'

The car is not the Marmon Wasp, but as Frank Femenias already suspected, a kind of prototype: it is the 1910 Marmon Yellow Jacket, so probably as yellow as the Wasp. The photo series below is from the magazine MoToR, May 1910 issue. Some more detail is given in a post on The Old Motor: https://theoldmotor.com/?p=153744

From Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Yellow Jacket'

Could be a prototype of the Marmon Wasp, 1911 Indy 500

From Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Yellow Jacket'

Car looks great- Enjoy the 75th anniversary celebration.

From Video: Tucker 1044 being prepped for the upcoming Tucker 75th Anniversary at the AACA Museum in Hershey , PA

Turned out to be a real head-scratcher so just some guesses. Looks like an early Peugeot racer of some kind. If it is Peugeot, then maybe it’s Dario Resta driving. Resta won the 1915 and 1916 Vanderbilt Cup races. As to the location of the car today: maybe Jay Leno’s garage?

From Mystery Friday Foto #23 Solved: Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Yellow Jacket'