October 10, 1908
On September 10, 1908, the AAA Race Commission announced plans to christen the Motor Parkway with an event called, “The Long Island Motor Parkway Sweepstakes.” Five concurrent…
As a follow-up to the June 3, 2013 Mystery Foto post on the Links Golf Club, more information has surfaced on this club that bordered on the Long Island Motor Parkway in Searingtown.
The exciting Vanderbilt Cup Races attracted the best drivers and cars at the birth of automobile competition.
On September 10, 1908, the AAA Race Commission announced plans to christen the Motor Parkway with an event called, “The Long Island Motor Parkway Sweepstakes.” Five concurrent…
George Robertson was the first American to win a Vanderbilt Cup Race. He drove "old 16" Locmobile to victory in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the first race to be held on the Long Island…
Victor Hemery’s 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race winning car was one of two Darracqs in a field of 19 machines. At 80 horsepower, the Darracqs had the lowest power of all the European…
I should have gone with my reasoning that it couldn’t have been the 1906 car since the picture showed it in front of a garage…