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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.
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Fantastic show and reporting! Glad the community continues to witness automobile history.
From InstaGRAM Report: The Black Beast at the East Williston car show
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From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Tucker Talisman Concept
Tucker Talisman, the sportier 2-door alternative to the 1948 Tucker Sedan. Never got passed the prototype stage.
Alex Tremulis, Phillip Egan
Planned for the 1949/1950 model year, proposal was made around 1948/1949.
The car was prominently used in Stephen King’s book “Needful Things”.
From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Tucker Talisman Concept
Great idea Art to have this meeting (and others if possible) on zoom!
It would work well for many of us who want to stay involved but aren’t driving so much at night…
From Hold the Date: 7:00 PM, Thursday, June 25, 2026: A Special Evening with the Howard and Al at 150 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge
That’s a Tucker Talisman designed by Alex Tremulis, who designed the Tucker 48. While never built, Tremulis proposed this concept in 1963 as a sportier version of the original Tucker 48.
From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Tucker Talisman Concept
Great old race car. I judged that car and was also rode in the Black Beast.
From InstaGRAM Report: The Black Beast at the East Williston car show
Tucker Talisman, designed by Alex Tremulis in 1963 as a proposed “second generation” Tucker. The styling cues on the drawing led me to a search, and I found the answer quite quickly.
From Mystery Friday Foto #21 Solved: The Tucker Talisman Concept
Great photos of a fun day!
From InstaGRAM Report: The Black Beast at the East Williston car show
Looks like the planets are aligned for me. I will be in New York and look forward to seeing you.
From Hold the Date: 7:00 PM, Thursday, June 25, 2026: A Special Evening with the Howard and Al at 150 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge
The 31 town car was obviously built first, and the 37 came later. There were two other Chrysler family cars as well - both survive, a 1932-33 roadster speedster that was Walter Chrysler Jr. car and now is resorted in a collection in NJ, and a closed coupled town sedan that is in a museum in Michigan. Al Nippert bought the roadster from the estate of WPC Jr. in the 1970s and got it roadworthy and it used to show up at the HCCA Fairfield County Region meet for pre 1942 cars in Ridgefield, Ct. Car was all original when Al had it.
From Chrysler's Chrysler featured at Imperials exhibit in the AACA Museum, Hershey, PA
Interesting there was a ‘31 Chrysler Town car that Mr. & Mrs. Chrysler used until the ‘37 Chrysler Town car?
From Chrysler's Chrysler featured at Imperials exhibit in the AACA Museum, Hershey, PA
Driver, Bert Dingley, Mechanician, Tony Nichols. A. L. Pope’s Pope Toledo. October 14, 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race. 12th place finish, out on 5th lap with a cracked cylinder. Dingley won the illimitation race. Drivers drew for starting order prior to the race. Dingley’s Pope Toledo drew 3rd which gave him car number 3.
From Mystery Friday Foto #20 Solved: The Mystery Racer of Bert Dingley
Memory a bit foggy as it has been decades, but wasn’t the 1931 CG town car here on Long Island in a collection in Halesite , owned by Phillip Wichard? We had a visit to his home and saw his car but that had to be in the 1970s.
Walt
From Chrysler's Chrysler featured at Imperials exhibit in the AACA Museum, Hershey, PA
What a great display of Chrysler Imperial’s.
Hope to get to the Hershey Museum to see the Imperial display.
From Chrysler's Chrysler featured at Imperials exhibit in the AACA Museum, Hershey, PA
Driver Bert Dingley, Mechanician Tony Nichols
60 HP Pope-Toledo
Vanderbilt Cup Race, October 14, 1905
Finished 12th, was in lap 6 when the race was stopped
From Mystery Friday Foto #20 Solved: The Mystery Racer of Bert Dingley
Quite simply… WHAT A RIDE!
Congrats on all Howard!
From InstaGRAM Report: Trophies awarded to the 1937 Chrysler's Chrysler (2012-2025)
That’s Bert Dingley in a Pope-Toledo with Tony Nichols as the mechanician at the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 14, 1905. They finished 12th. in this race after having won the American Elimination Trials the previous September 23rd.
From Mystery Friday Foto #20 Solved: The Mystery Racer of Bert Dingley
Oh well, all streaks must come to an end sooner or later.
From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The Wreck of George Arents Jr.
October 8, 1904, first Vanderbilt Cup Race. Mercedes. George Arents, Jr. was the driver, Carl Menzel was the mechanic. On the second lap of the race Arents blew a tire on the Queens corner and the car overturned. Both Arents and Menzel were thrown from the car. Arents was injured but survived, Menzel died, the first fatality at the first Vanderbilt Cup Race. August 1957, in practice for the first race at the newly constructed Bridgehampton Racecourse, grandson, George Arents crashed his Ferrari on his second lap. The Ferrari overturned but he and his passenger, Timothy Patrick, were not seriously injured.
From Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The Wreck of George Arents Jr.
Hi guys. Since that parkway was a large part of my life, i think I should be there. And should buy the book, too. Bob A
From Hold the Date: 7:00 PM, Thursday, June 25, 2026: A Special Evening with the Howard and Al at 150 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge
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