Vanderbilt Cup Races

Sorry, typo. Meant to say 20 years.

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

Frank- They are in amazing shape for their age. Most surprising is the collection is complete for the entire 30 year run of Horseless Age. Most likely the only complete collection outside of the Library of Congress.
This collection was originally part of the Walter McCarthy collection.

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

Amazing how these volumes have survived and still intact 120+ years, while we’ve come a long way in automobile design/performance in just 120 years. Love the Ames’ simple double safety-bicycle design.

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

Great photos. Love how Tracy closely inspects the ‘04 Mercedes in 1950, the same auto he once observed in 1904, 45 years earlier. What better inspector to validate the authenticity of the car! Equally amazing is how this car traveled through time with its present restoration. Great post

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

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From The Top 15 Black Beast Films On YouTube

With the Preakness coming up in a few days, where was the ‘Pimlico Oval’ in Baltimore in relation to where the horse track is today?

From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers

Just some guesses this week. That sure looks like Joe Tracy on the right side of the photo. If that’s true, then maybe the car is a Locomobile, possibly a 1906 Touring Model. Could be one of the owners was Henry Austin Clark, Jr. That’s all I’ve got.

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

Mystery Foto #20…The car is a 1904 Sports Touring Mercedes. Owners included Henry Austin Clark, Bill Hoffman, William Harrah, Barry Hon, Otis Chandler and then the car went up for auction on October 21, 2006 and sold for $2.255 million, that being the most recent purchase price. We can link this photo to the Vanderbilt Cup Races because Vanderbilt Cup driver Joe Tracy advised Henry Austin Clark on the purchase of this vehicle back in 1950. Joe is seen here on the right side in the main photo.

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

The original Chevrolet Camino, and Ford Ranchero, twenty years earlier.

From Mystery Friday Foto #18 Solved: The1948 Hudson Pick-Up Truck Prototype

Love the long wheelbase and skirted fenders!

From Mystery Friday Foto #18 Solved: The1948 Hudson Pick-Up Truck Prototype

Its a 1906-1926 Rolls Royce 40/50 “Silver Ghost”

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

Like seen in the images, horse’s had to be useful for towing. Especially on bumpy, muddy roads.

From Kleiner's Korner: The Horse and the Automobile Getting Along in the Early 1900s (Part 1)

Dear Sir, A few years back I did some welding for a gentleman in Deerfield Bch.,Fla. His name was Tom Lester(not the actor). He had an Alco which he was restoring. I think Mr. Lester has passed as he was well into his eighties at the time. Just wondering if his Alco was on your list, as I lost track of him. Thank you,JP

From In Search of Alcos: #11 The 1912 Alco Convertible Touring Car Stored in a Rehoboth Barn

Wow, much thanks Gary!

From Kleiner's Korner - Nassau County Surveys: Stewart Avenue & The Motor Parkway in Westbury and East Meadow

The George Carll mentioned - any connection to Marion Carll Farm in Commack?

From Kleiner's Korner: The Danger of Fire Along the Motor Parkway

Frank, thank you for the invite and information. I’ve been a follower on here for quite a long time.

From Kleiner's Korner - Nassau County Surveys: Stewart Avenue & The Motor Parkway in Westbury and East Meadow

Well….. at least I got the decade right. Pretty close geographically also.

From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers

Thanks for the correction - I misread a headline about the accident.  I read the word “fence” as “France”.  Guess that can happen when I start commenting at 6 am before my first cup of coffee!

From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers

I apparently missed the Cedrino record run, but he was of course a bit of a strange element that day driving a Fiat. He was killed indeed exactly a year later, but that wasn’t in France but during practice on Pimlico Oval , a US dirt track. I remember Emmanuel Cedrino especially because of the photos by Lazarnick made during the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup race, where he is shown with his (future) wife, ‘his favourite mechanic’.

From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers

Great info., Ariejan and Howard!.  Another Vanderbilt racer (1905) noted above who participated and broke speed records at the Oldsmobile meet was Emanuel Cedrino, who almost to the day one year later was killed in a racing accident in France.  Source: New-York Tribune, May 31, 1907.

From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers