Tag: Greg O's Garage
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Aug 26 2021
Greg O’s Garage; Newsday’s Big Apple Almanac Part 2
Part 2 of the 1990s regular feature of the Sunday Newsday featuring the color illustrations of New York history by artist Patrick M. Reynolds.
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Aug 11 2021
Greg O’s Garage; From the Helck Family Collection: The official 1904 Vanderbilt Cup race program
The complete 1904 race program
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Aug 07 2021
Greg O’s Garage: The Alco Black Beast on a practice run for the Port Jefferson Hill Climb.
The Alco Black Beast will be participating in its third Port Jefferson Hill Climb next Saturday. In preparation for the climb, the Beast made a successful practice run last Wednesday up Beacon Hill Road in Port Washington.
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Jul 31 2021
Greg O.‘s Garage: Plans for the Meadowbrook Country Club Motor Parkway Bridge
Newly uncovered plans for The Meadowbrook Country Club Bridge
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Jul 17 2021
Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway.
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Jul 06 2021
Greg O’s Garage: From the Helck Family Collection: Stocks and Bonds
Rare Stock and Bond certificates discovered in the Helck Family archives.
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Jun 23 2021
Greg O.‘s Garage: From the Helck Family Collection- Barney Oldfield and the “Green Dragon”
For the 1904 racing season, Barney Oldfield broke records in his Peerless "Green dragon"
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Jun 10 2021
Greg O’s Garage: The Vanderbilt Museum and mansion tour
Since being shutdown for over a year due to COVID, The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium is back open, giving tours and scheduling great shows at the planetarium.
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May 11 2021
Greg O’s Garage: Removable rims and their impact on early motoring and racing
Please give a big welcome to VanderbiltCupRaces.com columnist Greg Oreiro. Greg O's Garage first post: Sometime in 1904/1905, the idea of having a pre-mounted tire and tube with air on a removable rim was beginning to take form. And unlike today, it was a big deal then.
