Vanderbilt Cup Races

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• Feb 20 2024

  Mystery Friday Foto #7; Solved; Gentlemen, Start Your Engines for the 1912 Milwaukee Vanderbilt Cup Races!

  Did you identify the race and cars at the starting line?

• May 09 2022

  Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers

  Jeanne Booth, an archivist at the Hicksville Public Library, was looking for your assistance to identify two Mystery Fotos found in their archives.

• Apr 22 2020

  Update: From the Thayer Family Album: Four Photos of the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  I recently purchased these photos on Ebay originally from the Thayer Family with the caption "1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race".

• Jun 19 2017

  Mystery Foto #24 Solved: William Bruce Brown, the Brother of David Bruce-Bown

  The Bayport Heritage Association and the Suffolk County Parks Department challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.

• Dec 13 2016

  Mystery Foto#50 Solved:The 1911 FIAT S74 Driven by Barney Oldfield in the May 1912 Santa Monica Race

  The Heck Family Collection challenged you again to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.

• Sep 13 2016

  From a Lodgekeeper’s Family Album: A View of the Massapequa Lodge

  Arthur Mauriello, grandson of lodgekeepers Thomas and Josephine Zinzi, has forwarded two photos of the Massapequa Lodge from one of his family albums.

• Feb 25 2015

  Starting Lineup: The 1911 Vanderbilt Cup Race, Savannah, Georgia

  For the first Vanderbilt Cup Race held outside of Long Island, a total of 14 entries raced on a 17.1 mile road course in Savannah and Effingham on November 27, 1911.

• Aug 11 2014

  Mystery Foto #80 Solved: The East Embankment of the Wantagh Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in the 1950s

  Al Castelli of West Babylon challenged you to identify this week's Mystery Foto.

• Dec 26 2013

  Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series#42:Wantagh Avenue Bridge in Hempstead Plains Updated:6/20/16

  The 42nd bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the "parkway" bridge over Wantagh Avenue in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).

• Dec 11 2013

  The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #11 Massapequa Lodge in Plainedge

  Going west to east, the tenth Motor Parkway toll collection structure was the Massapequa Lodge in Plainedge.

• Oct 28 2013

  Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Alco Racer Practicing at the Indy 500 Track

  Hugh Nutting submitted this week's Mystery Foto, a previously unpublished photo of a race car.

• Jun 25 2013

  Then & Now: The Westbury Old Country Road Turn at the 1909 & 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races

  Another crowd favorite to view the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races was the turn of Old Country Road on to Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury. Check out the "Then & Now."

• Jul 19 2012

  The Three Benz in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  A total of three and possibly four Benz participated in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race driven by George Robertson, Eddie Hearne, Franz Heim and David Bruce-Brown.

• Jan 16 2012

  Race Profile: The Vanderbilt Cup Race Heads to Savannah in 1911

  Racing returned to Savannah in November, 1911. The Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prize were to be held within three days of each other. Savannah welcomed the racers, holding lavish parties and improving the circuit that AAA’s Fred Wagner called, “the finest road course in the world.”

• Jan 08 2011

  Drivers Who Raced in the 1911 Indy 500 and the Vanderbilt Cup Races (1904-1910)

  The decision of the Indianapolis Speedway to hold one major 500-mile race in 1911 with an unheard purse of $25,100 (equal to $571,000 today) attracted the best racing teams and drivers. Not surprisingly, many of the drivers who participated in the Vanderbilt Cup Races and its associated races also drove…

• Aug 01 2010

  Archives: 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Links to related posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: December 31, 2011):

• Jul 06 2010

  Starting Lineup: The 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  A large field of 30 cars raced in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 1, 1910. The race was run on the same course as in 1909- a total of 12.64 miles including 5.15 miles of the Long Island Motor Parkway. The winner needed…

• May 15 2009

  Film “The Inaugural Indy 500 Race”

  In celebration of the Indianapolis 500 Race on Memorial Day, this film shows the first Indy 500 Race held on May 30, 1911. Highlights include: