Vanderbilt Cup Races

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• Jul 15 2023

  Future Vanderbilt Cup Race drivers in the landmark 1902 Paris to Vienna Race

  Nine future drivers of the Vanderbilt Cup Races competed in the great 1902 Paris to Vienna Race.

• Jun 19 2023

  Mystery Friday Foto #24; Peter Helck with Joe Tracy and Painting “Speed Demons of 1904- A Motor Race On The Continent in The Early Days”

  Did you identify the gentleman and painting in this 1926 photo?

• Aug 11 2021

  Greg O’s Garage; From the Helck Family Collection: The official 1904 Vanderbilt Cup race program

  The complete 1904 race program

• Dec 23 2020

  Kleiner’s Korner: Part 1 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”

  Found in the Peter Helck Family Collection are over 30 photographs of the 1903 Paris to Madrid race of which Willie K., Foxhall Keene and Fernand Gabriel participated.

• Feb 26 2018

  Mystery Foto #8 Partially Solved:A Humidor Vanderbilia from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum

  Dr. Fred Simeone was looking for your assistance in identifying this weekend's Mystery Foto.

• Jul 27 2016

  Translation: October 1904 La Stampa Sportiva: The Vanderbilt Cup

  Professor Pau Medrano Bigas, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Barcelona, has forwarded several articles on William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and the Vanderbilt Cup Races from the Italian magazine La Stampa Sportiva published from 1902 to 1910.

• May 31 2014

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Spectacular Photos of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  On Friday, October 7, 1904, the day before the first Vanderbilt Cup Race, 60 superintendents and engineers of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (A.L.A.M.) gathered for a 65-mile "meet" covering Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester. On the next day, many of the participants ventured to Long Island to see the…

• Feb 22 2014

  Exclusive Firsthand Account of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race: “A Very Successful Trip”

  Walter Gosden has discovered an original October 11, 1904 letter from"Nephew Harvey Bell" to his "Uncle John" describing his adventures in a US Long Distance automobile to watch the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

• Dec 16 2013

  Mystery Foto #46 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt Jr in a Mors at the 1902 Circuit des Ardennes Race

  Last week's Mystery Foto was a pioneer race car driver- Willie K!

• Jul 20 2013

  Then & Now: The Hempstead Control For the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Joe Oesterle: Do you know exactly where these old pictures (of the Hempstead Control) were taken?

• Jul 16 2013

  The Hempstead Control in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race consisted of ten laps of the 30-mile course with controls in Hicksville and Hempstead.

• Jul 06 2013

  Then & Now: The Massapequa Turn for the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  One of the most exciting locations to watch the first Vanderbilt Cup Race was the turn from Massapequa-Hicksville Road onto the new Bethpage-Hempstead Turnpike in present day Plainedge. Here's the "Then & Now."

• Dec 12 2011

  Starting Lineup: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Eighteen racers participated in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 8, 1904. Photos of 17 of the 18 entrants at the Westbury starting line on Jericho Turnpike are shown here for the first time. The #10 Fiat arrived late at the starting line and began with a running…

• Feb 18 2011

  A Series of Vanderbilt Cup Race Exaggerations by Malcolm Strauss

  In 1904 and 1905 Automobile Topics magazine hired cartoonist Malcolm A. Strauss to create five "exaggerations of men who manage motors" for their issues featuring the Vanderbilt Cup Races: Jr.:

• Aug 01 2010

  Archives: 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Links to posts related to the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race (Updated: December 31, 2011):

• Mar 04 2008

  Film “1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race”

  Welcome to VanderbiltCupRaces.com! In one of the earliest sports films ever made, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race action was captured by cameramen G.W. Bitzer and A.E. Weed of the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company in Westbury and Plainedge.