Tag: Ormond-daytona Beach
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Sep 02 2025
Friday Mystery Foto #45 Solved: A Group of Gilded Age Heirs and Heiresses at Newport, R.I. in 1893
Did you identify some of these Gilded Age children?
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Nov 16 2024
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A great grandson’s profile of Willie K’s friend and a Motor Parkway treasurer Robert C. Watson, Jr.
David Watson has provided a profile on his great-grandfather Robert C. Watson Jr., a friend of Willie K.and a treasurer of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Sep 21 2021
Greg O.‘s Garage: From the Helck Family Collection: Barney Oldfield on Ormond Beach in his own words
Peter Helck and Barney Oldfield began a friendship shortly before Barney's passing
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Dec 30 2019
Mystery Foto #52 Solved: Willie K. at the Ormond Hotel during the 1904 Ormond-Daytona Beach Races
In the final Mystery Foto of the decade, did you find Willie K.?
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Sep 05 2016
Mystery Foto #36 Solved: Louis Chevrolet at the 1906 Ormond-Daytona Races
Paul Osika, a great collector and seller of racing and automobile photos, challenged you to identify this veteran of Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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Feb 11 2014
Sports Car Illustrated “110 years ago William K. Vanderbilt Jr. sets new speed record”
Last month, Sports Car Illustrated celebrated the 100th anniversary of Willie K. breaking the one-mile land speed record.
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Feb 06 2012
The Dawn of Speed: The Ormond-Daytona Automoble Races
Beverly Rae Himes explored "The Dawn of Speed" in the November 1987 isue of American Heritage. Here is a repost of the article with an images from my collection.
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Aug 23 2011
Willie K’s Cars: #5 The 90-HP Mercedes that Broke the One-Mile Land Speed Record in 1904
William K. Vanderbilt Jr. was among the first generation of people who grew up with the automobile. With his family’s fortune predicated on transportation perhaps it was inevitable that he was drawn to the latest innovation in machinery to transport goods and people from one place to another. Regardless, his fascination with the new mechanical marvels led him to some of his greatest adventures in a very adventurous life. Today's focus: The 90-HP Mercedes that he raced at the Ormond-Daytona…
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Apr 04 2011
Article “The Mercedes of Willie K” by Jean-Yves Lassaux
VanderbiltCupRaces.com contributer Jean-Yves Lassaux has written this article Willie K and the Mercedes for the French website etoilespassion.com . Use the Google translator for the English version.
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Apr 08 2010
Film “Willie K. Driving in the 1905 Ormond-Daytona Beach Automobile Races”
This 30-second film is the only known record of William K, Vanderbilt Jr. driving in an automobile race.
