Vanderbilt Cup Races

Wanted to show off my new watercolor painting based on the blog photo of the 1909 Chalmers-Detroit but now in color. Racecars are one of my favorite subjects for watercolor.

From Greg O's Garage: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course in Motoring and Boating

Interesting photos! The panoramic was a hit with readers as the magazine needed to print extra copies and reprinted the picture in the following week’s edition.

From Greg O's Garage: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course in Motoring and Boating

Hey Howard, I’ll judging at Old Westbury, your Fords will be Best of Show! with me!

From Holman Moody Challenger III and The Mustang III Concept Show Car to be featured at this Sunday's Gold Coast Cruisers Waterfront Car Show in Glen Cove

WOW! This particular Fairchild aerial photo contrasts to their usual high resolution aerial photography that was well known at the time, and still today. I can’t explain how this low resolution Fairchild photo was even processed for viewing!

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Mark, the Challenger III was always blue not maroon. Howard

From Holman Moody Challenger III and The Mustang III Concept Show Car to be featured at this Sunday's Gold Coast Cruisers Waterfront Car Show in Glen Cove

The Fairchild Plant and Flying Field was located at FARMINGDALE, L.I., N.Y., not Farmington.  Originally on Motor Ave. (later Liberty Aircraft), later in East Farmingdale on Conklin St. (later became Republic Aviation / Republic Airport).

Howard Kroplick: Gary, good catch, thanks!

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Flying over Salisbury/Eisenhower Park looking NNW.
Four horizontal roads at center are CRR, tree-lined Stewart Ave, Motor Parkway, and Old Country Rd. Also part of the Meadow Brook Club access road can be seen diagonal off Merrick Av.
Two vertical roads from left to right are Merrick Ave and Old Newbridge Av/Bellmore Rd (now Salisbury Park Drive).
Hard to see but related Motor Pkwy structures are Meadow Brook lodge, Merrick Av bridge, and Bellmore Rd bridge.
Guessing around 1930s, plane unknown

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Image is not really clear enough to say definitively, but I’ll guess looking north over East Meadow with Merrick Avenue on the left and Newbridge Avenue (Bellmore Road) on the right. Stewart Avenue and the LIMP run horizontally under the plane. Structures would then include the Merrick and Newbridge bridges along with the Meadowbrook Lodge. I’ll guess the date around 1937 since the bridges appear to be intact. As for the plane: ????.

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Greg
I am always pleased to help ” add to the story” if I can. Many of the people who passed the information on to me decades ago are now gone. It is my desire to do what they did, carry on . Share the knowledge, especially here on this outstanding website that our friend Howard has taken care of and led many of us on some wonderful journeys. We share the same enthusiasm for history . It is our bond.
Walt

From Greg O's Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age-Part 1

Walt, thank you for your incredible insight!

Hopefully this collection will carry on for a long time. It will be fun documenting future volumes here on the blog!

From Greg O's Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age-Part 1

Log of the NC6370 in Crissy Field in 1931.  The FC-2 at that time was owned by Owned by S.T. Yasolis whose home base was Mills Field in San Franscisco.  Info. from the oaklandairfield.org.  Amazing what you can find on the internet!

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Looking north over Salisbury (Eisenhower Park).
Merrick Avenue running vertically on the left.  Motor Parkway directly beneath the plane.  Stewart Avenue beneath the Motor Parkway.  Bellmore Road (Salisbury Park Drive) going vertically, slanted, on the right. 
Merrick Avenue and Meadowbrook (Bellmore Road) Parkway Bridges, Meadowbrook Lodge and entrance.
1928 - 1930 (see answer to the kudos question.
Plane: A Fairchild FC-2 which was built in 1928 in Farmington, NY and exported to Canada in June, 1932.  The plane was in San Francisco’s Crissy Field in 1931 so I’m assuming it was on the east coast prior to that.  Used by Fairchild to provide aerial photography.

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Unbelievable long wheelbase! Some difficulty when turning?

From Mystery Friday Foto #20 Solved: The 1904 Mercedes Sport Touring purchased by Henry Austin Clark, Jr, for $500 in 1950

The Holman Moody Challenger III appears to have a darker color than the blue that they had later and now, shown in the old Ford Caravan show B/W photos, was it the maroon color like the Mustang III in those days?

From Holman Moody Challenger III and The Mustang III Concept Show Car to be featured at this Sunday's Gold Coast Cruisers Waterfront Car Show in Glen Cove

The publisher of Horseless Age may have offered at the time to bind a set or sell a bound set at the end of the year. But many who subscribed to the magazine ( libraries, car companies, journalists etc) had their own copies bound by people they chose. Thus the variety of types, colors, etc of the bindings - bindings were everything from assorted cloth, leather etc. Austin had several runs of period magazines bound for his library, just easier to look things up and saved the magazines themselves.
Binding runs of magazines ( by year usually) was something that was often done pre 1960. especially pre WWII. I have a run of the French OMNIA magazine from 1920 to 1931 when it ceased publication. Some are bound some not, it was what I could find available when I was trying to put together a full set of all issues. It was a magazine that focused on car body design, building of same, salons that featured those cars etc. From what I have found /seen over the decades most uniform matching bindings were done by libraries that received /subscribed to the publication for reference. Rare to see an individual do this . It was the same era when book plates were popular and placed in these bound volumes as well as individual books. All before the instant world of finger touch computer history availability - print publications reigned. Heck volumes of newspapers ( daily, weekly etc) were hard bound! Vincent Seyfreid of Garden City ( he was the Garden City Historian for decades) had collected and saved bound volumes of daily newspapers that were being discarded by libraries when everything was being converted to be saved on film , those films then later converted to computers for saving. Vin Seyfried was quite a railroad historian, wrote books on the LIRR, his basement was packed floor to ceiling with shelves to save/hold bound volumes of newspapers that were placed at the curb for disposal 40 years ago. I knew him via the state historians society. Visited him often , drove over in my 1937 Packard super 8 limousine. Came back to my village with the rear floor of the car packed /loaded with bound volumes of newspapers from Floral Park where I live that went to the historical collection here in town. Vin tried to place the volumes he had saved from oblivion with people and organizations that cared about the stuff as much as he did.
Walt

From Greg O's Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age-Part 1

Walt- I’ve been trying to discern why some volumes are bound differently. Are they from different publishing runs, printed by different publishers or something else?

From Greg O's Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age-Part 1

I know the collection well. Walter McCarthy got them from Henry Austin Clark Jr. , Austin had two complete sets and many loose copies ( loose copies kept in his basement on shelves and these were in a book case down in his basement as well -I have the book case here in my library) Austin had a full bound run of the Horseless Age and it went to the Henry Ford when he donated his library to them decades ago. I was Austin’s librarian in the early 1970s ( his only other librarian was in the 1950s name was Norris Hopping) and the information in the Horseless Age was used several times a year to look things up for people and when Austin used to write a regular column for Old Cars weekly.

From Greg O's Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age-Part 1

This is over the Salisbury plains with the photographer facing north.  The 3 horizontal parallel lines from top to bottom are: LIMP, Stewart ave., and the LIRR central branch.  The vertical road on the left is Merrick ave. and Meadowbrook hunt club rd. is the diagonal road on the left that ends at Merrick ave.  The Salisbury plains station is located just below that.  The white speck on the right side of the photograph is LIMP meadowbrook overpass, (over Newbridge rd. / East Meadow ave).  On the lower left should be the Salisbury links clubhouse but I can’t make it out.  If its not there then the photo was taken before 1932.

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Looks like the plane is flying NW toward Old Westbury over Merrick Avenue. You can see East West Motor Parkway at the top middle, Stewart Avenue east west with the trees and the LIRR Central branch with its little soutwest road toward the Meadowbrook Club. Guessing the year 1922 or earlier as there is nothing else to see in the picture. Looks like at the top of the Picture is Old Country Road at Post Avenue

From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Fairchild FC-2 NC6370 flying over the Motor Parkway in East Meadow courtesy of the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation (circa 1928-1932)

Greg, Thanks for sharing the contents of the Horseless Age magazine. The very early issues are extremely difficult to find in any condition. Back in the 1980’s I attempted to put a run together and after 5 years or so gave up. Looking forward to more posts.

From Greg O's Garage: The first Automobile Publication; The Horseless Age-Part 1