Vanderbilt Cup Races

Craig Baxter
That must have been a awesome experience! Those Tuckers were something to behold.

Ronald A. Givler
Cannot wait to read this new publication! Thank You Richard Lentinello

Bob Lovely
just ordered

Richard Slim Toonkel
Saw it at The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum.

Jim Kreuz
Can’t wait to read this story…. the Smithsonian has a silver Tucker, and Francis Ford Coppola has one on display at his Calif winery…. Preston Tucker was an engineering and business genius… I wish the article was longer…

Brian Rachlin
Just ordered for the year.
If you are doing the orders and shipping I’d love a signed first issue.
I am also a charter subscriber of HCC and have decided not to renew.

John Whelpley
Can’t wait for my first issue to arrive!

Jim Govoni
This is great

Dave Siegel
I’ve seen that car! Nice to see it’s getting the care it needed!

Steve Petrelli
I am looking forward to seeing the new magazine.

Richard Stuck
I was fortunate enough to visit Ida Automotive several times while Tucker 44 was being restored.
Rob Ida is an artist in metal.
I’m looking forward to reading this article.

John Cuocco
Great picture… miss u guys

Chris Callen
How cool is that!! I’ve been a Tucker fan since I was 8 years old. Its one of the most interesting stories in automotive history.

Kurt White
That must be something to be there.

Linda Latulippe
What an AMAZING Car & story..Good choice for first edition!

Richard N Teresa Munoz
Thank you and I look forward towards exciting readings.

Rob Robison
Richard, just ordered! Thanks!!

Dwayne Christopher Burda
Just ordered mine,woot woot

Gerald Hawkins
I don’t know what number cars they are, but there is a Tucker at the Gilmore museum in Michigan, and another at Kesling History museum in Laporte Indiana

Sean Tucker
Number 1047 and number 1012

Joe Olek
I saw this car at pebble beach 2018

Tom Williamson
What a great restoration project

Mike Roesch
Hershey AACA has a couple

John R Tucker Jr.
So proud of my sons, Sean and Mike, the Ida and Kroplick families for this epic collaboration! Thank you Richard for recognizing the importance of this story.

Marty Rendon
Terrific! Just ordered my subscription! Thanks!

Larry L Tebo
Subscribing; with great enthusiasm.

John Corey
eager for #1 in my box!

Larry L Tebo
My son and I spent a wonderful day at the Simeone Museum in Philadelphia summer before last at the exhibition of #44, and we had the pleasure of speaking briefly with the Tucker brothers, Dr Simeone, and the others involved in the creation

Richard Lentinello
Larry L Tebo Thank you…..you are going to really enjoy the article on Howard’s Tucker. I had a ride in it and oh boy was that a memorable experience.

Bill Fisher
Went to the museum of speed in Lincoln, Neb and got to see the first Tucker water cooled motor. Looks like it had been under the sea! Under reconstruction.

Meredith Jaffe
Ordered my copy!

Bill Mclin
Done and looking forward to the first issue. Richard, in addition to all your contributions to automotive journalism, you hold a special place for many of us when you were our keynote speaker at the Rehoboth Beach banquet.

Marty Rendon
Bill Mclin Let me second that, Bill!

Richard Lentinello
Bill Mclin Thank you! That Grand National show in Rehoboth Beach was great, and I hope to attend this year’s GN in Michigan.

Jennifer Sturken Maurer
My dad remembered the Tucker. We talked about after watching the movie. He said the big auto makers put him out of business

Marty Rendon
The late David Cammack with his Tucker collection at his small museum in Alexandria, Virginia in 2012. After he passed away, his collection was added to the AACA Museum.

George Schire
I’m so looking forward to the new magazine!

James Chase
Just ordered the first issue….Can’t wait to check it out!

Steve Tremulis
The signatures on the crest blueprint include George Klix. As Alex Tremulis said: “The tools and dies were the responsibility of George Klix, who had the capability of developing the tools for production.

Steve Tremulis
The O’Brien signature belongs to H. O’Brien, George Klix’s Administrative Engineer in the Body Division. For a time, both Klix and Tremulis reported to Eddie Offutt, Chief Engineer, also the driver of the car that famously flipped during testing.

Larry L Tebo
I had a personal “six degrees of separation” experience regarding the Tucker saga back in the seventies. I worked in a factory in Lansing, Illinois, on Chicago’s south side, and one of my co-workers was a silver-haired fellow named Paul Tima.

Jon Philbrick
I can’t wait to read it once the magazine arrives!!! Great job fellas!

Michael S Johnson
May I ask you to join our group—pre-1970 American cars, no resto-mod posts allowed. Vintage photos and car stories are especially encouraged. Treat everyone with respect. Healthy debates are natural, but kindness is required. Bullying isn’t allowed.

Louis Ivan Mandich Jr.
I just ordered as well-I am looking forward to it!

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Mike Tucker

We were very humbled to be included in the first issue, 1044 changed our life! We can’t thank Howard Kroplick enough for believing in us, and Rob/Bob for being the masterminds behind the project. The team they put together was unbelievable!

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Was the photo taken from his sea plane?

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

Kudos question has me stumped on my own photo! Jean Grey maybe?

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

I was born in 1942 at the Floral Park Sanitarium. I am trying to locate an old photo of the Sanitarium that stood on the South side of Jericho Turnpike near the intersection of Little Neck Parkway and Tulip Avenue, Floral Park. I you can, please post photo. Thank you.
JM

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: Jericho Turnpike in Floral Park Looking Towards the LIRR Bridge

Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport?
Northport Harbor?
Facing south east?
That’s it not sure about any of this….

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

Jonathan, thanks so much for your comment. You made my day. Howard

From Can You Identify Aunt Nell Patterson's Automobile?

Just a guess but this could be looking west over Hempstead Harbor toward the sand pits. After that, I’ve got nothing.

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

Hummmm, looks like Sands Point and the Guggenheim Estate where Charles Lindbergh used to visit and stay with Guggenheim and his wife Alicia Patterson, who owned Newsday . Now the Sands Point preserve of Nassau County - I worked there 50 years ago in the Exhibits Dept. .

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

I come belatedly to a reading of this article and wonderfully responsive Comments from blog readers to the original post by Rog Patterson of Florida. As the years move on in the 21st century we are losing so much first hand knowledge held by those who lived through the era of these early 20th century automobiles. This most excellent Vanderbiltcupraces.com blog of Howard Kroplick serves to preserve so much important information and to retard the loss of historic knowledge of automotive history and indeed history in general. This blog is one of my favorite weekend views. Congratulations on the quality of this internet effort. Keep up the fine work, Jonathan B. Richards II in cold Missouri.

From Can You Identify Aunt Nell Patterson's Automobile?

After the previous comment I googled it.  About all I remember from actual rides was that it was easy to use, up on the console - but I don’t remember if it was an up down lever or something else.  2 speed is rather wasteful but the car did have plenty of power to handle it’s weight.  Funny thing - it was the last time my father got a car with good performance.  He did have a couple ramblers (he delivered cars for them) and later a couple K cars that I thought were junk.

From Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Open-Air Roosevelt Field Mall in 1957

Mystery View #7
Vanderbilt Estate, Centerport, looking East towards Northport Harbor

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

These posts show up on my Facebook page, and people comment with their answers to the mystery. Of course, the comments are NOT held back. It spoils the mystery.

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

I believe I may finally be able to answer a Mystery Photo. It looks like the plane is flying over Wm. K. Vanderbilt’s Eagles Nest estate in Centerport.
Across Northport harbor is the Steers sand pit and the old Lilco power house on Woodbine Ave.
The photo must have been taken before the mid 60’s when the Lilco plant was demolished and a housing development was built in the pit.
I can still remember the old Lilco plant and the giant crane at Steers as a child.

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

Ron, I had mention the Torqueflite was a 3 speed auto trans. Over time Powerflite was phase out and Torqueflite was use for years on. There was no 2 spd. Torqueflite.

From Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Open-Air Roosevelt Field Mall in 1957

Hey fellow ex Brooklyn boy, I had ordered on Feb. 13 @ 4:59PM my copy of your Crankshaft Mag.!!
CONGRATULATION!!

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Subscribing immediately!!! Can’t wait to see the issue and equally intrigued to see what your other special ISL edition books are all about. The new world for print publications is truly about luxury and the specialized quest of special interests.

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Looking east flying over Vanderbilt’s Centerport home (eagles nest) with Northport Harbor and the town of Northport in the upper right . Its Vanderbilt’s sea plane because he had a huge hanger on the Centerport side of the harbor.

From Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie's K's Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor

Interesting mistake on my part.” Powerflite 2-speed automatic transmission standard”
  for the New Yorker in 55.  I wonder what the difference was between it and the Torqueflite 2 speed.

Ron

From Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Open-Air Roosevelt Field Mall in 1957

Brian. The Motor Parkway much preferred to go over existing roads. It was a lot lot cheaper to do so. Construction of the Parkway over a road sometimes meant only detour signs were necessary. Also, taking the Parkway over a road meant they could determine not only the width but also limiting the weight carrying capacity to automobiles. Taking the Parkway under an existing road, always meant first a temporary road had to be built and maintained by the Parkway. Rebuilding a public road was a whole lot more expensive because it not only had to be strong enough to handle trucks but also the wear and tear of a much heavier traffic load. Without checking, I think at the time the roads the Parkway went under were the responsibility of Nassau County or New York State. If you want to see a good example of a chaotic under the road scenario, check out Willis Ave./LIRR in Mineola.

From Kleiner's Korner: The Land of the Motor Parkway Mineola Lodge (Kiosk)