Tag: Motor Parkway License Plates
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Nov 29 2025
Newsday LI Life cover article: A need for Speed: LI’s Motor Parkway was a road like no other for racers with the right plates
The November 30, 2025 issue of Newsday's LI Life section features a cover article on the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Nov 28 2025
Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
Replicas of Long Island Motor Parkway License Plates continue to be sold as original plates on Ebay.
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Nov 18 2025
An upcoming cover article on Long Island Motor Parkway License Plates and Vanderbilia
Reporter John Hanc is writing another Long Island Motor Parkway feature article. It will be centered on Motor Parkway license plates and the rare Vanderbilia collected by Motor Parkway and Vanderbilt Cup Race enthusiasts.
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Nov 12 2025
The Significance of the Long Island Motor Parkway
As many of the Motor Parkway enthusiasts know, the Motor Parkway had a major impact of the future of road building with the newly constructed parkway
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Nov 06 2025
Updated: My Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate Collection (11/7/2025)
Among the most sought-after pieces of Vanderbilia are the porcelain Motor Parkway license plates. From 1912 to 1937, an estimated 7,400 Long Island Motor Parkway license plates were manufactured including 6,700 regular plates and 700 golf club plates.
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Sep 06 2025
Another set of six Long Island Motor Parkway license plates has been discovered
Six more Motor Parkway license plates have been discovered, once again, by the family of Philip Rothblum.
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Jan 11 2025
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Found- The oldest known Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate
Roslyn Harbor's Childs Frick's 1921 Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate was recently found. It is the oldest documented Motor Parkway license plate known to exist.
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Apr 12 2024
Good News: The missing 1931 Motor Parkway Plate from the Himes Museum has been found
I am pleased to announce that Marty Himes' missing Long Island Motor Parkway Plate has been found in the museum property.
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Mar 12 2024
A Lodge Keeper’s 1933 Motor Parkway Plate
Bill Cruickshank has forwarded this image of his grandfather's 1933 Long Island Motor Parkway plate.
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Dec 28 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The 1930 Motor Parkway license plate/season ticket holders Part 3
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum has forwarded lists of people who purchased Long Island Motor Parkway season tickets and license plates over an eight-year period (1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 1930, 1931 and 1932.) These " Who's Who" lists total over 700 prominent Long Islanders.
