Vanderbilt Cup Races

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• Dec 11 2021

  Illustration Magazine: The work of Peter Helck. (112 pages)

  Tim Helck has forwarded the news that the current issue of Illustration is devoted solely to the work of his grandfather Peter Helck.

• Apr 26 2021

  Mystery Foto #17 Solved: Emil Stricker in the #3 Mercedes passing the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge during the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto?

• Aug 03 2020

  Mystery Foto #31 Solved: The Grave’s Garage on Searing Avenue in Mineola

  Art Kleiner challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.

• Jan 07 2019

  Mystery Foto #1 Solved: Locust Grove Section of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course

  I challenged you to solve the first Mystery Foto of 2019.

• Aug 05 2017

  The 16 Mercedes Race Cars of the Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island

  Mercedes was one of the most successful marques in the early history of automobile racing. Despite participating in all six Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Races and entering more automobiles than any other marque (16), a Mercedes never finished in the top three places.

• Nov 28 2016

  Mystery Foto #48 Solved: Building the Long Island Motor Parkway Through the Stymus Farm in Bethpage

  This Mystery Foto is one of my favorite images of the construction of the Motor Parkway.

• Mar 02 2016

  Owner Profile: Robert Graves Jr. Who Entered His Mercedes in Three Vanderbilt Cup Races

  Joe Schramm has forwarded this email looking for information on Robert Graves, the owner of Mercedes racers which participated in three Vanderbilt Cup Races.

• Sep 07 2015

  Mystery Foto #36 Solved: The Opening Day of Mineola’s Corpus Christi School, Formerly Grave’s Garage

  Bob Hoffman challenged you to identify this Long Island building.

• Apr 23 2014

  First Brigade of Irish Volunteers Guard the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course

  The Vanderbilt Cup Race Comission was always looking for ways to keep crowds off the course. For the 1908 race, they hired the First Brigade of Irish Volunteers to guard the course.

• Nov 30 2013

  Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #41: The Bloomingdale Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains

  The 41st bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the highway bridge built for the extension of Bloomingdale Road in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).

• Oct 23 2013

  Happy 105th Anniversary- The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  In celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Fourth Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 24, 1908, here are several of my favorite race images photographed near the grandstand and press box/officials' stand in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).

• Oct 07 2013

  Mystery Foto #36 Solved:  Joe Seymour Driving the #8 Thomas During the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  This week's Mystery Foto was a previously unpublished image from the Vanderbilt Cup Races.

• Sep 21 2013

  Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #37:  Carman Avenue Highway Bridge in East Meadow

  The 37th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Carman Avenue Bridge in my childhood hometown East Meadow. It is classified as a highway bridge since Carman Avenue was over the Motor Parkway.

• Jun 17 2013

  Mystery Foto: #20 Solved: Grave’s Garage in Mineola- Headquarters for the 1908 #3 Mercedes

  In celebration of Sunday's Father's Day, this Mystery Foto is a real softball.

• Apr 28 2012

  The Hempstead Plains Motor Parkway Bridge Near Bloomingdale Road

  Tim Ivers: "Howard, the 1932 Hagstrom Map shows an overpass over the LIMP (Bloomingdale Road extension) which connected with Hempstead Tpke. The overpass is about halfway between Jerusalem Avenue on the west and Wantagh Rd (Ave.) on the east. Are there any known photos of this overpass, or other information?"

• Apr 12 2011

  The Garages of the Vanderbilt Cup Races

  Shannon McDonald (Author of the book The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form): "Were there any garages associated with the Vanderbilt Cup Races?"

• Aug 01 2010

  Archives: 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

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

• Feb 06 2010

  Starting Lineup: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  These are the 17 cars that raced in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 24, 1908. The race was run over a 23.46 mile course including 8 miles of the Long Island Motor Parkway. The winner needed to complete 11 laps of the course…